# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bjarne-melgaard
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:25:54.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bjarne-melgaard"
name: "Bjarne Melgaard"
slug: "bjarne-melgaard"
description: "Bjarne Melgaard is a Norwegian artist based in New York City. He has been described as \"one of Norway's most important artists\" and, following the 2014 publicity about his sculpture Chair, \"the most famous Norwegian artist since Edvard Munch.\""
tagline: "Norwegian artist (born 1967)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1967-09-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.230204000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5298671/"
    handle:    "nm5298671"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://patricialow.com/artists/bjarne_melgaard/"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Melgaard"
    title: "Bjarne Melgaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Melgaard"
    title: "Bjarne Melgaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Melgaard"
    title: "Bjarne Melgaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%87_%D9%85%D9%84%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "بیرنه ملگورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Melgaard"
    title: "Bjarne Melgaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Melgaard"
    title: "Bjarne Melgaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%2C_%D0%91%D1%8C%D1%8F%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5"
    title: "Мельгор, Бьярне"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q879363"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1823898"
    title: "Bjarne Melgaard"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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