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 ...

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.

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'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 ...

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: 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 ...

Photographer Laura Aguilar recorded the denizens of the Plush Pony during the 1990s. Now the Vincent Price Art Museum pays tribute to the LGBTQ space with a party.

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 ...