A Background

Sarah Isela Aguilar is a drawer born and raised in a red brick house with two badly pruned bushes at the end of the driveway. While looking out the window of a moving train, Sarah travels in a spiral that takes her in and out of tracing and retracing fragmentations of memory, place, and words. Received her BFA at The University of Texas at El Paso (2019) with a concentration in Drawing and minor in Printmaking and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago (2024).

Sarah Isela Aguilar currently lives and works in Chicago, but will always return to the star on the mountain.