Aaron Hughes

Aaron Hughes is an artist, curator, and anti-war veteran whose interdisciplinary collaborative art practice spans drawing, printmaking, and performance. He is involved with a range of art and activist organizations including About Face: Veterans Against the War, emerging Veteran Art Movement, Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project. Recent exhibitions include Seeing Through Stone, UC Santa Cruz and San José Museum of Art (2025); Surviving the Long Wars, Chicago (2023); Autonomous Democracy, Arcade, London (2023); Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, & Reparations at DePaul Art Museum, Chicago (2022); and past exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art New York, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, and Ashkal Alwan Beirut. Recent publications include Surviving the Long Wars: Creative Rebellion at the Ends of Empire (Bridge Books, 2024), Invitation to Tea: A Tea Project Archive & Recipe Book (StepSister Press, 2022), and Remaking the Exceptional: Tea Torture and Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo (DePaul Art Museum, 2022). Hughes lives and works in Chicago.