Holly Hughes (performance artist)

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Holly Hughes (born 1955) is an internationally acclaimed performance artist whose work maps the troubled fault lines of identity. Her combination of poetic imagery and political satire has earned her wide attention and placed her work at the center of America's culture wars. In 1990 Hughes earned national attention as one of the so-called NEA Four, artists whose funding from the National Endowment for the Arts was vetoed by endowment chairman John Frohnmayer on the basis of subject matter.