Karen Finley
Actor, Musical Artist
1956 –
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Who is Karen Finley?
Karen Finley is an American performance artist, whose theatrical pieces and recordings have often been labeled obscene due to their graphic depictions of sexuality, abuse, and disenfranchisement. She was notably one of the NEA Four, four performance artists whose grants from the National Endowment for the Arts were vetoed in 1990 by John Frohnmayer after the process was condemned by Senator Jesse Helms under "decency" issues. Finley is currently a professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
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- Born
- 1956
Evanston - Also known as
- Finley, Karen
- Parents
- Spouses
- Brian Routh
(1981 - 1987) - Michael Overn
(1988 - 1995)
- Brian Routh
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute
- Employment
- Professor, Tisch School of the Arts
- Lived in
- Evanston
- New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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