# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-luna
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:42:05.705Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-luna"
name: "James Luna"
slug: "james-luna"
description: "James Luna was a Puyukitchum, Ipai, and Mexican-American performance artist, photographer and multimedia installation artist. His work is best known for challenging the ways in which conventional museum exhibitions depict Native Americans. With recurring themes of multiculturalism, alcoholism, and colonialism, his work was often comedic and theatrical in nature. In 2017 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship."
tagline: "Luiseño-Mexican-American performance and installation artist from the La Jolla Indian Reservation in California. (1950–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_luna_im11.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1950"
deathDate: "2018-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.611952
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "جيمس لونا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "جيمس لونا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Luna"
    title: "James Luna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "جیمز لونا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Luna"
    title: "James Luna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6138298"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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