Steve Aguilar

Video, Photography, Performance

Steve Aguilar is a multimedia artist, skilled in performance art, video production, photography, and music. He has been active in the Ventura avant-garde since the early ‘90’s. Whether he is behind the scenes or performing on stage, Steve has always supported other artists in the many productions he has been involved in throughout the years. His work in co-curating and video-documenting the Art Gulag series in Ventura’s early and mid-1990’s was instrumental in bringing avant-garde artists of various media to collaborate and showcase their artworks. Many of the artists showing in Bad Exhibition: Value in Art were featured in that Art Gulag series, as well as many other events and long-term projects that Aguilar filmed throughout Ventura County.

The artist believes in building a creative force within himself and using his life and the world around him as his canvas. His objective is to inspire creative expression and to continuously reinvent himself as a creative force. Aguilar also regularly performs at John M. White’s 5 x 5 x 5 performance art series as well as the Thursday E.P. Foster Topping Room Poetry Series, both loci of Ventura poetry and performance.