# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boris-groys
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:48:50.675Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boris-groys"
name: "Boris Groys"
slug: "boris-groys"
description: "Boris Efimovich Groys is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is currently a global distinguished professor of Russian and Slavic studies at New York University and senior research fellow at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been a professor of aesthetics, art history, and media theory at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design/Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and an internationally acclaimed professor at a number of universities in the United States and Europe, including the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California and the Courtauld Institute of Art London."
tagline: "Soviet art historian (born 1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Boris_Groys_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-03-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "BORIS-GROYS-107846192981"
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    title: "Boris Groys"
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    title: "Boris Groys"
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    title: "Boris Groys"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump