Finding Aid for the Laura Aguilar Papers, 1980-2007 CSRC.0008
Processed by Alyssa Hernandez.
Chicano Studies Research Center Library
2009
144 Haines Hall
Box 951544
Los Angeles, California 90095-1544
librarian@chicano.ucla.edu
Contributing Institution:
Chicano Studies Research Center Library
Title: Laura Aguilar Collection
Creator:
Aguilar, Laura 1959 -
Identifier/Call Number: CSRC.0008
Physical Description:
4.4 linear feet
(11 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1980-2007
Abstract: This collection of papers consists mainly of printed material, photos and journal articles pertaining to the work of photographer
Laura Aguilar. Included are images of her work with Latinas in Los Angeles and Mexico.
Physical Location: Chicano Studies Research Center.
Language of Material:
English
.
Access
Open for research.
Acquisition Information
Collection was donated to the Chicano Studies Research Center by Laura Aguilar in 2005. Deed on file at the CSRC Archives
office.
Biography
Laura Aguilar was born in 1959 in San Gabriel, California. Aguilar attended the photography program at East Los Angeles Community
College and continued her studies with The Friends of Photography Workshop and Santa Fe Photographic Workshop. Her work has
been exhibited at the Venice Biennial, Italy; the Los Angeles City Hall Bridge Gallery, the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
(LACE), Los Angeles Photography Center,Women's Center Gallery at the University of California in Santa Barbara, Self Help
Graphics, all in CA; and the University of Illinois in Chicago, IL. She was an Artist in Residence at Light Works in Syracuse,
NY in 1993; received a Brody Grant from the California Community Foundation in 1992; received an Artist in Residence grant
from the California Arts Council through the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center of Los Angeles in 1991/92; and an Artist's
Project Grant from LACE in that same year. [This biography is from the website http://www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/Corinne/Aguilarbio.htm]
Aguilar died on April 25, 2018 in Long Beach, California.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Laura Aguilar Papers, 8, Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processing Information
Processed by Alyssa Hernandez in 2009. Finding aid edited by Doug Johnson in 2021. The editing occurred during the COVID-19
pandemic, so there was no access to the physical collection.
Scope and Content
This collection of papers consists mainly of printed material, photos and journal articles pertaining to the work of photographer
Laura Aguilar. Included are images of her work with Latinas in Los Angeles and Mexico.
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Articles / Books / Journals
- Series 2. Photographs
- Series 3. Exhibit materials / Programs
Publication Rights
These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. The user
must assume full responsibility for any use of materials, including but not limited to infringement of copyright and publication
rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
The original authors may retain copyright to the materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
body image
Hispanic American women
lesbians
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Mexico
photography
Series 1. Articles / Books/ Journals
Box 1, Folder 1
Articles
undated
Scope and Contents
Includes: "Group Exhibition Laura Aguilar Maxine Walker" by Mark Little from
Creative Camera; "Another Day in L.A.: The Empress Has No Clothes" by A.M. Rousseau from
Photo Metro.
Box 1, Folder 2
Articles
1997-2003
Scope and Contents
Includes: "Eye Catching Flesh and Zone" by Gail-Nina Anderson from
Northern Review; "A Journey to Center" by Laura Aguilar.
Box 1, Folder 3
Articles
1995-1999
Scope and Contents
Includes: "Other Bodies" by Claudine Ise from
Artweek; "Depictions of Class in West Coast Photography" by Thomas McGovern from
Artweek.
Box 1, Folder 4
Lesbian Art in America by Harmony Hammond
undated
Box 1, Folder 5
Los Angeles Times clippings
2001
Box 1, Folder 6
"In Connecticut, The Scars of War, The Works of Peace" by Roberta Smith
1999-07-30
Box 1, Folder 7
"The Honest Eye: Image and Identity at Loyola Marymount University" by Linda Sher Salzman
1990-10-18
Box 1, Folder 8
"Body Doubles: Gender and Its Discontents" by Ralph Rugoff
1990
Box 1, Folder 9
"All but the Obvious and Drawing the Line" by Jody Zellen
1990-12
Box 1, Folder 10
"Storm Damage" by Janice Cheddie
1997
Box 1, Folder 11
"Body Art, Performing the Subject" by Amelia Jones
1998
Box 1, Folder 13
"Laura Aguilar at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects" by Victoria Martin
2000-05
Box 1, Folder 14
"Laura Aguilar" by Diana Emery Hulick
1993
Box 1, Folder 15
"Curriculum Vivia: An Art of Persona by Latinos of Los Angeles" by Margaret Lazzari
Spring 1992
Box 1, Folder 16
Publications
2000
Scope and Contents
Includes: "Art/Women/California:Parallels and Intersections 1995-2000" edited by Diana Burgess Fuller and Diana Salvioni;
"Califa/Califas:A Brief History of Chicana California" by Amalia Mesa-Bains.
Box 1, Folder 17
Nueva Luz Photographic Journal
1999
Box 1, Folder 18
"Fire without Gold: Works by Photographers of Color" by Miriam Romais and Christine Jackson
1994
Box 1, Folder 19
"Feminism and Art: 9 Views"
2003
Box 1, Folder 20
"Forbidden Subjects: Self-Portraits by Lesbian Artists"
undated
Box 1, Folder 21
"Gallerie: Women's Art"
1988
Box 1, Folder 22
"New Bodies of Work from Laura Aguilar: Motions and Center"
2003
Box 1, Folder 23
"The Emigrants" by Gil Cuadros
1992
Box 1, Folder 24
"Connexxus Women's Center Newsletter"
1988
Box 2, Folder 6
Discussion on Women! Culture! Power? and the Future?
1996-10
Box 2, Folder 27
Programs
1990-1993
Scope and Contents
Includes: Art X-Press; "Artistas Chicanas: A Symposium on the Experience and Expression of Chicana Artists."
Box 2, Folder 34
"The Forgotten Woman: Revelations from a Plus-size Life" by Gendy Alimurung
2003
Box 3, Folder 1
East Los Angeles College
Winter 1980
Scope and Contents
Cover images by Laura Aguilar.
Box 3, Folder 5
Image and Identity: Recent Chicana Art from "La Reina del Pueblo de Los Angeles de la Porcincula" by Sybil Venegas
1990
Box 3, Folder 6
Day of the Dead Los Angeles Times clippings
1990
Box 3, Folder 7
Sunshine and Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997
1998
Box 3, Folder 8
Visions Journal
Spring 1992
Box 3, Folder 10
"The Emigrants" by Gil Cuadros
1992-06-19
Box 3, Folder 11
Art in America clippings
June 1992
Box 3, Folder 13
Square Peg Magazine
1992-12
Box 3, Folder 14
Latin American Art vol. 5, no. 3
undated
Box 3, Folder 15
Photography Quarterly
1994
Box 3, Folder 16
Exposure vol. 29, no. 2/3
1994
Box 4, Folder 2
Uncontrollable Bodies: Testimonies of Identity and Culture edited by Rodney Sappington and Tyler Stallings
1994
Box 4, Folder 4
"Other Bodies" by Claudine Ise
1995-07
Box 4, Folder 7
In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice edited by Nayland Blake, Lawrence Rinder, and Amy Scholder
1995
Box 4, Folder 9
English Is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas by Coco Fusco
1995
Box 5, Folder 2
Aztlan vol. 23, no. 2
1998
Box 5, Folder 3
Living Chicana Theory edited by Carla Trujillo
1998
Box 5, Folder 9
"In Connecticut, the Scars of War, the Works of Peace"
1999
Scope and Contents
Also includes letter from the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art.
Box 5, Folder 10
18th Street Arts Complex
1999-07
Box 7, Folder 5
"Updating Chicano Art" by Shifra M. Goldman
1992
Box 7, Folder 6
Forbidden Subjects: Self-Portraits By Lesbian Artists
1992
Box 9, Folder 1
Images of Ambiente: Homotextuality and Latin America Art, 1810-today by Rudi C. Bleys
2000
Box 9, Folder 5
Latino Performance
2000-03
Box 9, Folder 7
Miscellaneous
2000-2001
Scope and Contents
Includes: Profile of Artists - City of Los Angeles; clippings; Skirball Cultural Center programs.
Box 9, Folder 10
H2O by Jo Anna Isaak
2002
Box 9, Folder 11
Articles
2000-2003
Scope and Contents
Includes: "Contemporary Art and Art Criticism Are Unimaginable without Feminism"; Signs Journal, vol. 27, no. 4; "Posing
the Subject: Performing the Other as Self" by Amelia Jones; "Body Art/Performing the Subject" by Amelia Jones.
Box 9, Folder 12
Art/Women/California: Parallels and Intersections, 1950-2000 edited by Diana Burgess Fuller and Daniela Salvioni
2002
Box 11, Folder 1
Contact Sheet 78 (Light Work)
1993
Box 9, Folder 13
ZYZZYVA volume XIX, no. 2
Fall 2003
Box 10, Folder 2
Dreaming Red: Creating ArtPace by Linda Pace, Jan J. Russell, Eleanor Heartney, and Kathryn Kanjo
2003
Box 10, Folder 4
Sinister Wisdom 64: Lesbians and Music, Drama, and Art
Spring 2005
Box 11, Folder 13
Art on the Front Lines
1990
Box 11, Folder 16
Cultural Identity Journal
1989
Box 11, Folder 18
Galleria: Women's Art
1988
Series 2. Photographs Series 2.
Box 1, Folder 5
"Nude Women in a Swimming Pool"
1987
Scope and Contents
Three 8"x10" prints, two signed by Laura Aguilar.
Box 2, Folder 1
Woman [Luz Calvo] with sign "What side are you on?"
undated
Scope and Contents
8"x10" print.
Box 2, Folder 2
"Group Photo"
undated
Scope and Contents
Two contact sheets with negatives.
Box 2, Folder 3
"Woman Sitting"
undated
Scope and Contents
Contact sheet with negatives.
Box 2, Folder 4
Seminario Marxist-Leninista Feminista de Lesbianas banner "Lesbianismo"
1987
Scope and Contents
Two 8"x10" prints; 8"x10" enargement, signed by Laura Aguilar.
Box 2, Folder 5
"Nude Women in a Swimming Pool"
1987
Scope and Contents
Three 8"x10" prints, two signed by Laura Aguilar.
Box 2, Folder 10
"Woman [Lydia Otero] with Guitar"
1987
Scope and Contents
Two cards.
Box 2, Folder 11
"Woman [Carla Barboza] Sitting in Chair Smoking"
1987
Box 2, Folder 12
"Woman [Luz Calvo] Clothed and Unclothed"
undated
Box 2, Folder 19
GLLU (Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos)
undated
Scope and Contents
Photocopies.
Box 2, Folder 20
"Women [Rita Gonzalez and Pat Martel] Eating Cake"
undated
Scope and Contents
Photocopies.
Box 2, Folder 21
"Woman Singing on Stage"
undated
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of negatives.
Box 2, Folder 22
Connexxus
undated
Scope and Contents
Photocopy.
Box 2, Folder 23
"Three Women" [Rita Gonzalez, Veronica Flores and Carla Barboza]
undated
Scope and Contents
Photocopy.
Box 2, Folder 24
"Two Women Dancing"
undated
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of negative.
Box 2, Folder 25
"Three Women Talking" [one woman identified as Sue Dell]
undated
Scope and Contents
Photocopies.
Box 2, Folder 26
"Two Women" [Yolanda Retter and Carmen Noriega]
undated
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of negative.
Box 6, Folder 1
Susana B. portraits
1989-1992
Scope and Contents
Contact sheet snd negatives.
Box 6, Folder 2
Ana and Deborah Gutierrez [sisters]
late 1980s
Scope and Contents
Prints, contact sheets, and negatives.
Box 6, Folder 3
Sharon W.
late 1980s
Scope and Contents
Contact sheet, prints, and negatives.
Box 6, Folder 4
Stephanie
late 1980s
Scope and Contents
Prints, contact sheets, and negatives.
Box 6, Folder 5
Gina D.
late 1980s
Scope and Contents
Contact sheets and negatives.
Box 6, Folder 6
Devione
1985-1987
Physical Description: Prints, contact sheets, and negatives.
Box 6, Folder 7
Heine
1984-1986
Scope and Contents
Prints, contact sheet, and negatives.
Box 6, Folder 8
Beto Araiza
late 1990s
Scope and Contents
Contact sheets and negatives.
Box 6, Folder 9
Nancy Rosenblum
1990s
Scope and Contents
Prints, contact sheets, and negatives.
Box 6, Folder 10
Whyn
1994-1996
Physical Description: photos, contact sheets, and negatives
Scope and Contents
Prints, contact sheets, and negatives.
Box 6, Folder 11
Joel Tan
1994
Scope and Contents
Negatives.
Box 6, Folder 12
HIV-Positive Writers Workshop
1990s
Scope and Contents
Prints, negatives and contact sheets.
Box 8, Folders 1-2
Pat Martel
1988-1999
Scope and Contents
Prints and correspondence.
Box 8, Folder 3
Joyce Tenneson
1991-1995
Scope and Contents
Prints and correspondence.
Series 3. Exhibit materials / Programs
Box 2, Folder 7
A Woman's View flyer
1990
Box 2, Folder 8
New Works: Laura Aguilar 99.2 program
1999
Box 2, Folder 9
The World Around Me: An Exhibition of Black and White Photography by Laura Aguilar
1989
Box 2, Folder 13
Viva Las Photos flyer
1996
Box 2, Folder 14
The Black and White of It All: Portraits by Laura Aguilar flyer
1986
Box 2, Folder 15
Centro Cultural De La Raza brochure
1995
Box 2, Folder 16
Engendros: A Photographic Exhibit about Gender and Sexuality brochure
1996
Box 2, Folder 17
3 Exhibitions at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum flyer
1992
Box 2, Folder 18
Deterritorialization flyer
1995
Box 2, Folder 28
Gyrlz N the Hood: A Celebration of 'round the way Dykes
1992
Scope and Contents
Includes: program; contact sheets and negatives; three signed snapshots of Laura Aguilar.
Box 2, Folder 29
Cicle: El jo divers Laura Aguilar program
1998
Box 2, Folder 30
Programs
1991-1999
Scope and Contents
Includes:
L.A. Iluminado: Eight Los Angeles Photographers;
Traffic Report: A Publication of 18th Street Arts Complex;
Portraiture: Front, Back, and In-Between.
Box 2, Folder 31
Programs
1990-1995
Scope and Contents
Includes:
Image and Identity: Recent Chicana Art from La Reina de Los Angeles de la Porcincula;
Vital Signs.
Box 2, Folder 32
Framework Southern California program
1991
Box 3, Folder 2
The Black and White of it All: Portraits by Laura Aguilar flyers
1986
Box 3, Folder 3
Flyers
1986
Scope and Contents
Includes:
Antologia/Anthology;
El Dia De Los Muertos/The Day of the Dead.
Box 3, Folder 4
Los Angeles Graffiti Art Expo '90 flyers
1990
Box 3, Folder 9
3 Exhibitions at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum flyers
1992
Box 4, Folder 3
Vital Signs (Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery)
1995
Box 4, Folder 5
Miscellaneous
1995
Scope and Contents
Includes:
Deterritorialization pamphlet; Centro Cultural de la Raza calendar of events; Heap of Birds clipping.
Box 4, Folder 6
The Portrait Now program and clippings
1995
Box 4, Folder 8
Pervert (University of California, Irvine)
1995
Box 4, Folder 10
James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography programs
1996
Box 4, Folder 11
Miscellaneous
1996
Scope and Contents
Includes:
Discussion on Women! Culture! Power? and the Future? invitation;
Engendros flyer;
La Voz de Esperanza magazine.
Box 4, Folder 12
Flyers
1996
Scope and Contents
Includes:
Viva Las Photos;
Disenos del Deseo: Sexual Self-Imaging in Photography, taught by Laura Aguilar.
Box 5, Folder 1
Event flyers
1997
Scope and Contents
Includes:
Shifting Terrains;
Laura Aguilar and Maxine Walker (Zone Gallery, Newcastle).
Box 5, Folder 4
El jo divers Fundacio "la Caixa" show cards
1998
Box 5, Folder 5
Out West (Plan B Evolving Arts, Santa Fe, NM)
1999
Box 5, Folder 6
Sunshine and Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997 (Hammer Museum)
1999
Box 5, Folder 7
Laura Aguilar 99.2 (ArtPace, San Antonio, TX)
1999
Box 5, Folder 8
The Third Eye (Berta Sichel)
1999
Box 5, Folder 11
Front, Back, and In-Between (Armory Center for the Arts)
1999
Box 7, Folder 3
Flyers
1992-1993
Scope and Contents
Includes:
Chicanolandia;
Art Forum;
Palimpsest;
Disorient.
Box 7, Folder 4
Counterweight (Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum)
1992-1993
Box 7, Folder 7
Ojo Abierto/Open Eye (Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum)
1992
Box 7, Folder 15
American Voices- Latino Photographers in the United States
1997
Box 9, Folder 2
Stillness and Motion (Vielmetter Los Angeles)
2000
Box 9, Folder 3
The LACMA Institute for Arts and Cultures
2000
Box 9, Folder 4
Charting New Currents: Celebrating 10 Years of Grantmaking by the California Community Foundation (J. Paul Getty Trust Fund
for the Visual Arts)
2000
Box 9, Folder 6
Show cards
2000
Scope and Contents
Includes:
The Mexican Museum pPresents Chicanos En Mictlan: Dia de los Muertos in California;
Exposure @ Zero Hour.
Box 9, Folder 8
Flyers
2001
Scope and Contents
Includes::
Self Help Graphics Annual Print Exhibition and Fundraiser;
Arzulananlar/Les Voluptes.
Box 9, Folder 9
Publications
2002
Scope and Contents
Includes:
(El Bello) Genero;
Mesa Redonda - Genero.
Box 9, Folder 14
FotoSeptiembre USA (San Antonio, TX)
2003
Box 10, Folder 1
Motion and Center: New Bodies of Work from Laura Aguilar
2003
Box 10, Folder 3
Fat Attitudes: A Celebration of Large Women (Macy Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University)
2004
Box 10, Folder 5
Passing through, Settling In: Contemporary Photographs of the Desert (Stanlee and Gerald Rubin for the Visual Arts, UTEP)
2006
Box 10, Folder 6
Art of Engagement Visual Politics in California and Beyond (San Jose Museum of Art)
2006
Box 10, Folder 7
Cross Sections (18th Street Arts Center)
2007
Box 11, Folder 2
Women Photographers in America (Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery)
1987
Box 11, Folder 3
Visible Differences (Centro Cultural de la Raza)
1987
Box 11, Folder 4
Transcend (Viva Visual Arts)
1989
Box 11, Folder 5
L.A. Iluminado: Eight Los Angeles Photographers (Otis/Parsons Gallery)
1991
Box 11, Folder 6
Artistas Chicanas: A Symposium on the Experience and Expression of Chicana Artists (University of California, Santa Barbara)
1991
Box 11, Folder 7
Los Angeles Photography Center
1989-1991
Scope and Contents
Includes material on the following exhibits:
Contemporary Latin Photography;
Personal Perceptions;
The Visual Statement.
Box 11, Folder 8
Sexuality and the Politics of Obscenity (Hera Gallery)
1990
Box 11, Folder 9
All But the Obvious (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
1990
Box 11, Folder 11
Flyers
1990
Scope and Contents
Includes:
A Women's View;
The NUDE: Classic and Conceptual;
Chicano Lecture Series.
Box 11, Folder 15
Show cards
1991
Scope and Contents
Includes:
8th Annual Day of the Dead/Dia de Los Muertos;
Situation;
Visible For A Change;
Annual Conference: Women's Caucus for Art.
Box 11, Folder 17
The World Around Me (Bridge Gallery, LA City Hall)
1989
