Holly Hughes
Performance Artist

Holly Hughes Net Worth

She has also written several books, including Clit Notes: A Sapphic Sampler and The Well of Horniness. Holly Hughes has earned her net worth through her successful career as a Performance Artist, as well as through her writing. She has been honored with numerous awards and grants for her work, and has written several books.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day March 10, 1955
Birth Place Michigan
Age 69 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Pisces

💰 Net worth: $19 Million (2024)

About

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.

Before Fame

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.

Trivia

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.

Family Life

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

Associated With

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

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