# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gavin-turk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:09:02.156Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gavin-turk"
name: "Gavin Turk"
slug: "gavin-turk"
description: "Gavin Turk is a British artist from Guildford in Surrey, and was considered to be one of the Young British Artists. Turk's oeuvre deals with issues of authenticity and identity, engaged with modernist and avant-garde debates surrounding the 'myth' of the artist and the 'authorship' of a work of art."
tagline: "British artist (born 1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gavin_Turk_Portrait_(Jovita_Valaityte).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1967-09-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.22
  momentum:             4.247787610619469
  historical:           6.151981333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cf5487ef-9c07-4a2c-945e-6e1d48a2fd46"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "غافين تورك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "جافين تورك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Turk"
    title: "Gavin Turk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Turk"
    title: "Gavin Turk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Turk"
    title: "Gavin Turk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Turk"
    title: "Gavin Turk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5528291"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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