# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-burden
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:50:44.166Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-burden"
name: "Chris Burden"
slug: "chris-burden"
description: "Christopher Lee Burden was an American artist working in performance art, sculpture, and installation art. Burden became known in the 1970s for his performance art works, including Shoot (1971), where he arranged for a friend to shoot him in the arm with a small-caliber rifle. A prolific artist, Burden created many well-known installations, public artworks, and sculptures before his death in 2015."
tagline: "American sculptor and performance artist (1946–2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/95/Chris_Burden.jpg/330px-Chris_Burden.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1946-04-11"
deathDate: "2015-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             13.3692142088267
  historical:           13.51416133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Քրիստոֆեր Լի Բերդեն"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump