Mikha Dominguez

Mikha Dominguez aka Mikhamik (Caracas, May 12, 1987) is a Queer non binary latinx Venezuelan visual artist, photographer and sculptor and a blacksmith who has resided in Minneapolis since 2014. Their early career was spent working in the Venezuelan national television industry as a set designer and Art Director where he experienced state censorship under the dictatorship of President Hugo Chávez. In response, Dominguez left Venezuela and joined the more than six million other Venezuelans who fled the militaristic and authoritarian Chávez regime. In 2020 Mikha taught community workshops at the Holter Museum of Art in Montana. Recently the work of Mikha Dominguez was part of the artists included in the 50th anniversary of the Pride of the Twin Cities. In 2022 Mikha was one of three artists-in-residence at the NE Sculpture Gallery in Minneapolis. Dominguez's work is actively part of the community through "Mikhamik House Of Arts" a series of public access installations made by the artist on the facade of their home in South Minneapolis. Mikha is currently developing blacksmithing and welding studies.