Pilar Agüero-Esparza

Pilar Agüero-Esparza (born 1966) is a Mexican-American painter, sculptor, and art educator. She is known for her works, particularly in mixed media, focusing on issues of skin tone, ethnic identity, labor, and domesticity.

Biography Pilar Agüero-Esparza was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East L.A. Her work explores themes of labor, domesticity, and representations of color in pieces that incorporate materials such as “skin-tone” crayons and woven leather.

Selected artwork Homework House Agüero-Esparza was inspired by everyday objects like her daughter's homework. The resulting series of cast feet became the 2010 installation “Multicultural Crayons.”

Stratum / Merging Agüero-Esparza made this piece as part of a 2019 Richmond Art Center exhibition exploring “the interchange of ideas and material, the crisscrossing of bodies and objects, and the weaving of histories and personal narratives”. A wooden board is painted in acrylic with “skin-tone” colored lines, then merged with a woven square of leather strips in similar hues.