Born 

1959           San Gabriel, San California

                  Lives and works in Rosemead, CA

Education

         Self taught

Awards

2000           Anonymous Was A Woman Award, New York

                  COLA, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles

1999           ArtPace, Residency, San Antonio, Texas

1998           California Community Foundation's J. Paul Getty Grant for the Visual Arts

1995           The James D. Phelan Art Award - Photography, sponsored by the

                        San Francisco Foundation, administered by SF Camerawork

1994/95       California Arts Council Fellowship, California Arts Council, Los Angeles, CA

1991-94       Artist in Residence Grant, California Arts Council, through the Gay and

                  Lesbian Community Services Center

Solo Exhibitions

2003           “new bodies of work from Laura Aguilar”, Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, San Antonio, TX

2001           "Center", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles

2000           "Stillness & Motion", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles

1999           "Stillness", ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas

1998           "El jo divers" ("The Diverse Self"), Fundacio "la Caixa", Barcelona, Spain

Group Exhibitions

2007           “normal love—precarious life, precarious sex”, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, curated

                        by Renate Lorenz

2006           Mangnan Emrich Contemporary, Chelsea, New York, with Delilah Montoya

                  “This is not a Love Song”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

                  "Passing Through, Settling In:  Photographs of the Desert", Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for

                        the Visual Arts, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, curated by Kate Bonansinga

                  “Expressive Bodies: Contemporary Art Photography from The Kinsey Institute”, The Kinsey

                        Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, School of Fine Arts Gallery at

                        Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, with Lynn Bianchi, Joel-Peter Witkin, Frank Yamrus,

                        Mariette Path Allen, and Pierre et Gilles, traveling to Herron Gallery, Indianapolis

2004           "S.P.F", Angles Gallery, Los Angeles

                  "Only Skin Deep Changing Visions of the American Self ", International Center of

                  Photography, curated by Brian Wallis and Coco Fusco, catalog

                  "AC", 473 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Jeff Koan Baysa

                  "Fat Attitudes - an exploration of an American subculture & the representation of the female

                        body", Columbia University, NY

                  "Fusion: A Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival", Los Angeles, CA

2003           "Koerper - Konstrukt - Schoenheit" (Body – Construct – Beauty), Galerie der Hochschule für

                        Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Germany, with Olaf Breuning, Mona Hatoum, Marie-Jo

                        Lafontaine, Zoe Leonard, Bjorn Melhus, Orlan, Jack Pierson

                  The Armory Show, New York, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

                  "H2O", Danese Gallery, New York, NY

2002-03       "Der Akt in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts" (The Nude in the Art of the 20th Century)

                        Kunsthalle Emden, Germany (catalog)

2002           "water", The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

                  "Majestic Sprawl - Some LA Photography", Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena,

                        CA, curated by Andrea Feldman

                  "H2O", Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, New York (catalog)

                  "The Beautiful Gender: Transformations and Continuities", Sala de Exposiciones de la

                        Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, curated by Margarita Aizpuru, with Andres

                        Serrano, Orlan, Cheryl Donegan, Martha Rosler, Nicole Eisenman, Daniela Steinfeld,

                        catalog

                  "Art/Women/California: Parallels and Intersections, 1950-2000", San Jose Museum of Art,

                        San Jose, CA, catalog

                  "Super Sex", Post, Los Angeles, CA, with Nicole Eisenman, Nicoletta Munroe, Sharon Ryan,

                        Naomi Fisher, curated by Michael Gold

2001           "COLA 2001", Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

                  "fotografia y sociedad", Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Imber, Spain

2000           "Made In California" Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

                  “Aztlan Today: The Chicano Postnation”, Communidad de Madrid, Spain and

                        Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, catalog 

1999           "The Nude in Contemporary Art", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

1998           Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1997-98       "Sunshine & Noir - Art in L.A. 1960-1997"

                  Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark,

                        UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum, Westwood, CA

                        Museum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

                  "American Voices: Latin Photographers in the United States", Smithsonian

                        Institution's International Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1995           "Temporarily Possessed: The semi-permanent Collection", The New Museum of Art, NY

1996           Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party" in Feminist Art History,

                        Armand Hammer Museum , UCLA, Westwood, CA

                  Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

                  James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography Exhibition, San Francisco Camerawork

                  "Vital Signs", Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

                  "P.L.A.N. -Photography Los Angeles Now", LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

                  "In a Different Light", University Art Museum of California at Berkeley

                  "Pervert", University of California at Irvine, CA

1994           "Encuentro Interamerieano de Artist Plasticos Exposicion", Universida De

                  Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico

                  "New Photography II/ New Acquisitions Exhibition", LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

                  "Bad Girls", The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

                  "Bad Girls West", UCLA Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles

1993           "Aperto 93", LA Biennale di Venezia, XLVB Esposizione Internazionale d'Art 1993, Venice, Italy

1992           "Breaking Barriers: Revisualizing the Urban Landscape", Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa

                        Monica, CA

                  "Disorient: Perspectives in Colonialism", University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

                  "Ojo Abierto/Open Eye", Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

                  "Working W/people", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1991           "L.A. iluminado", Otis/Parsons School of Art and Design, Los Angeles,

                  "Forbidden Language: Beauty and Culture", University of Southern California

1990           "All But the Obvious", Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

                  "El Dia de los Muertos/ The Day of the Dead", Los Angeles Photography Center,

                        Los Angeles, CA and The Women's Building Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

                  "Image and Identity: Recent Chicana Art", Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University,

                        Los Angeles, CA

1989           "Contemporary Latin Photography", Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, CA

1988           "Mexican/Mexican American Photography", Mexico National General Archives Mexico D.F

                  "Visible Differences: Images of a Diverse U.S. Culture, A National Exhibition

                        of 14 Photographers", Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA

1987           "Women Photographers in America 1987", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles

1986           "Dia de los Muertos/ The Day of the Dead", Los Angeles Photography Center,

                        Los Angeles, CA

1985           "Seven Latin Photographers", Self Help Graphics, East Los Angeles, CA

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                  Selz, Peter, “On Racism, Discrimination and Identity Politics”, Art of Engagement, Visual Politics

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2005           Davis, Angela Y. and Tadiar, Neferti X, "Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and

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2003           Henry, Lisa, "Still Life / Natural Beauty", FotoFile, #44, November 2003, pg 16 - 20,

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                  Knight, Christopher, "Female Artists Just Foolin' Around", Los Angeles Times, February 22

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                  Muchnic, Suzanne, "City-Sponsored Freedom", Los Angeles Times Calendar, Sunday,

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1998           Gerstler, Amy, "Art Attack", Los Angeles Magazine, November issue

                  Jones, Amelia, "Body Art - Performing the Subject," University of

                        Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1998

                  "El jo divers" ("The Diverse Self"), Fundacio "la Caixa", Barcelona, SpaiN

                  Cruewell, Constanze, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/ Kultur, March 21

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                  Jones, Amelia, "Sexual Politics / Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist art

                        History," (catalog), published by UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Westwood

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                  "In A Different Light," pg. 93; edited by Nayland Blake, Lawrence Rinder & Amy

                        Scholder, published by City Lights Books San Francisco

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                  Museo de las Artes, Universidad De Guadalajara (catalog)

                  "Uncontrollable Bodies - Testimonies of Identity and Culture," published by Bay Press

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Public Collections

                  The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University

                        Bloomington, IN

                  DG Bank Collection, Frankfurt, Germany

                  State Finance Office of Hessen, Germany

                  Latin American Art, Scottsdale, Arizona

                  Light Work, Syracuse, New York

                  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

                  Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, California

                  The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

                  The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York

                  Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Department, Santa Monica, California

                  Stanford University, Stanford, California