# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-al-bengston
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:58:47.386Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-al-bengston"
name: "Billy Al Bengston"
slug: "billy-al-bengston"
description: "Billy Al Bengston was an American visual artist and sculptor who lived and worked in Venice, California, and Honolulu, Hawaii. Bengston was probably best known for work he created that reflected California's \"Kustom\" car and motorcycle culture. He pioneered the use of sprayed layers of automobile lacquer in fine art and often used colors that were psychedelic and shapes that were mandala-like. ARTnews referred to Bengston as a \"giant of Los Angeles's postwar art scene.\""
tagline: "American artist (1934–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Billy_Al_Bengston_Portrait_Manfredi_Gioacchini.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1934-06-07"
deathDate: "2022-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.99
  momentum:             14.98387096774194
  historical:           5.478366666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Billy Al Bengston"
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    title: "بيلى ال بينجستون"
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  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billi_Al_Benqston"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Al_Bengston"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Al_Bengston"
    title: "Billy Al Bengston"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Al_Bengston"
    title: "Billy Al Bengston"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4912103"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump