Lorenzo Aguiar is a self taught  artist. Although he could never attend art school, drawing and painting have been the means to express himself and the perception he has of his world. In 1984 he entered, for the first time into El Taller de Manero, an artists den and a place to paint , in Playa, Ciudad Habana, where he got in contact with art students and painters ,to whom Aguiar says, he owes his first notions about painting techniques and academic rules. If it is a fact that an artist needs training, he soon realized that having a message or, conveying a feeling, was even more important. That is how his career as a painter began in a constant quest for intellectual improvement.

Study and knowledge had become the magic words. After graduating at Universidad de La Habana in 1987 with a B.A in English Language and Literature, he took courses in Philology and Classical Studies, keys that opened the doors to more knowledge and information.

He arrived in the United States in 1995 and after some time of adjusting and hard work in New Jersey, he was ready to retake his creative path. . All those projects, dreams and ideas which had been dormant or pending, began to appear either on paper or canvas. He entered City College of New York to obtain a M.A in English Literature in 2002. The impact of a whole new academic mileu away from his roots and traditions accelerated the urge to depict his inner world through images, speak his mind out about his aesthetic universe, and mix colors to flood the canvas with his visions.

Aguiar's palette is bright and colorful,  and his sources of inspiration go from  his days working at the Museo de Bellas Artes in La Habana to his frequent visits to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Aguiar also feels inspired by his fascination with classical ballet and body language  while at  the same time  his controversial visions on religion, sexuality, and human nature are forever recurrent  in his work.  

 Aguiar is a  resident of Southwest Florida since July 2004, where he spends most of his time between a full time job and his art.