Aaron hughes

Aaron Hughes is an artist, curator, organizer, teacher, anti-war activist, and Iraq War veteran living in Chicago, Illinois. He works collaboratively in diverse spaces and media to create meaning out of personal and collective trauma, deconstruct and transform systems of oppression, and seek liberation. Working through an interdisciplinary practice rooted in drawing and printmaking, Hughes develops projects that deconstruct militarism and related institutions of dehumanization. These projects often utilize popular research strategies, experiment with forms of direct democracy, and operate in solidarity with the people most impacted by structural violence.

Beyond his work with Mullowney Printing, Hughes works with a range of art and activist projects including Just Seeds, About Face: Veterans Against the War (formerly Iraq Veterans Against the War), Warrior Writers, emerging Veteran Art Movement, and Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project.

Please visit www.aarhughes.org for more information about Aaron Hughes and his projects.

The prints shown here are from Poetry Despite/Music Despite (Eternal War Requiem). Poetry Despite/Music Despite (Eternal War Requiem) was concieved of and organized by Aaron Hughes for the 2019 BALTIC Artists’ Award, a worldwide biennial art award judged solely by artists. Hughes was selected for the award by artist Michael Rakowitz.

More information about Poetry Despite/Music Despite (Eternal War Requiem) can be found here.