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Laura Aguilar was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1959. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Art Institute of Chicago have featured Laura Aguilar's work in the past.Laura Aguilar's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 18 USD to 30,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2011 the record price for this artist at auction is 30,500 USD for Nature Self-Portrait #11, sold at Swann Auction Galleries in 2025. Laura Aguilar has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for New City Art in September 2025. The artist died in 2018.
The sale is led by a 1987 Hugh Steers oil-on-canvas of Carl George鈥攆riend and collector who worked freelance for New York-based florist and party planner with Steers.
鈥淓N CADA BESO UNA REVOLUCI脫N.鈥 鈥淟ESBIANAS. UNIDAS. 隆FELICES!鈥 Such battle cries embody the poetic optimism of Latina lesbian activism across borders at the Vincent Price Art Museum鈥檚 On the Side of Angels.
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..Through photographs and videos that are frequently political as well as personal, and which traverse performative, feminist, and queer art genres, Aguilar offers candid portrayals of herself, her friends...
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..Throughout her practice, Aguilar disrupts normative concepts of beauty and the female form while specifically utilizing the gendered body as a site for social critique...
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