Holly Hughes

Quick Facts

Full Name	Holly Hughes
Occupation	Performance Artist
Date Of Birth	Mar 10, 1955(1955-03-10)
Age	69
Birthplace	Michigan
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Pisces

Holly Hughes Biography

Holly Hughes is one of the most popular and richest Performance Artist who was born on March 10, 1955 in Michigan, Michigan, United States. Known for such feminist-themed performance art pieces as Dress Suits to Hire and Well of Horniness, she earned numerous honors for her work, including an Obie Award, a Lambda Book Award, and several National Endowment for the Arts grants.

She and Bosnian-born artist Endi Poskovic both taught at the University of Michigan’s School of Art & Design.

Born in Saginaw, Michigan, Hughes graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1977 and moved to New York City two years later to become a feminist painter. She worked as a waitress to support herself but felt unfulfilled, later writing: “Why had I moved to New York City to live in an even crummier apartment and do the same things that I was doing in Kalamazoo?” She saw a poster promoting a “Double X-rated Christmas party” to be held in the basement of a Catholic church. There she found lesbian women stripping, kissing booths, and a highly sexual atmosphere. She eagerly attended many such parties, became involved with the group and began doing theater with them because “that’s what they were doing”. Hughes’ first performance at the Women’s One World Cafe (Wow Cafe) in the early 1980s was a piece called “My Life as a Glamour Don’t”, about various fashion mistakes. She followed this up with “Shrimp in a Basket” and then her breakthrough Well of Horniness (1983). At the WOW Cafe, Hughes felt that she was able to “tell the stories she so desperately wanted to be told as a child.”

Hughes wrote, directed and performed in Dress Suits to Hire (1987). Critic Stephen Holden commented, in reviewing the play, “While Ms. Hughes’s more poetic writing recalls Sam Shepard, the campy B-movie side of her sensibility shows her to be equally in tune with John Waters’s movies and Charles Busch’s drag extravaganzas.” Focusing on the subjects of sexuality, masturbation and Jesus, her plays usually explore issues that she confronted as a young woman in college. In 1990 Hughes earned national attention as one of the so-called NEA Four, artists whose funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (“NEA”) was vetoed.

An open lesbian, she made femininity and sexuality major themes of her work.

Holly Hughes Net Worth

Holly Hughes is one of the richest Performance Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Holly Hughes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After graduating from Kalamazoo College in Michigan, she relocated to New York City and began performing at the city’s Women’s One World (WOW) Cafe.

She and three other artists won a 1990 Supreme Court case after then-National Endowment for the Arts Chairman John Frohnmayer withdrew NEA funding for their artistic projects as a result of the projects’ content.

Holly Hughes (born March 10, 1955) is an American lesbian performance artist.

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Holly Ranked on the list of most popular Performance Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Holly Hughes celebrates birthday on March 10 of every year.