# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/houben-r-t
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:31:16.188Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/houben-r-t"
name: "Houben R.T."
slug: "houben-r-t"
description: "Houben Tcherkelov, is a painter and experimental artist who lives and works in New York. In his early photographs, film, and installations post-communist Bulgaria and Bulgarian art is a recurrent theme. In his more recent work, Tcherkelov paints images from American and other national currencies using impasto, glaze, foil, acrylic and watercolor techniques. In all of his work the artist seeks to suggest the way in which symbolic images legitimize national power."
tagline: "Bulgarian painter"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1970-01-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.74
  momentum:             3.999999999999999
  historical:           7.203168
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://houben.nyc"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%8E%E6%9C%AC%C2%B7%E5%88%87%E5%85%8B%E6%B4%9B%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "后本·切克洛夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "هوبن شيركلوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "هوبن شيركلوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Хубен Черкелов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huben_Tscherkelow"
    title: "Huben Tscherkelow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houben_R.T."
    title: "Houben R.T."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houben_R.T."
    title: "Houben R.T."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houben_R.T."
    title: "Houben R.T."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1632998"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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