Aguilar's work also reflected the struggles she encountered simultaneously embracing her Mexican-American heritage and her identity as a lesbian. In one self-portrait, she stands topless between ...

Another nude work in the exhibition that caught my attention was Nature Self-Portrait #4 (1996). The artist reclines on her right side in front of a pool of water.

Laura Aguilar in one of her candid self-portraits, “Grounded #111” (2006) at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. She was alone, her face often hidden, her prone body aligned with and echoing ...

Laura Aguilar's identity as a queer Chicana informed her work as an artist throughout her career. In the Nature Self-Portrait series, Aguilar uses her own nude body as both sculptural object and ...

She also often put her own body in the frame. For Nature Self-Portrait (1996), Aguilar photographed herself taking the form of a rock in the baron desert.

But one woman who changed the course of art history is Laura Aguilar. The artist’s 30-year retrospective recently opened at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York City, which is showcasing ...

Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell is the first comprehensive retrospective of photographer Laura Aguilar (b. 1959, San Gabriel, CA; d. 2018, Long Beach, CA), assembling more than 70 works produced over ...