Karen Finley

Karen Finley is an American performance artist, musician and poet. Her theatrical pieces and recordings have often been labeled obscene due to their graphic depictions of sexuality, abuse, and disenfranchisement. Finley is currently a professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

Finley was born in Chicago and raised in Evanston, Illinois. She is a relative of the American humorist and writer Finley Peter Dunne. Her father was of Irish and Scottish descent and her mother was of Native American, Romani, and Jewish ancestry.

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