# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-coleman-q348494
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:50:19.743Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-coleman-q348494"
name: "Joe Coleman"
slug: "joe-coleman-q348494"
description: "Joseph Coleman is an American painter, illustrator, actor and performance artist. He has been described as the \"walking ghost of Old America\" by his wife, photographer Whitney Ward, for his over-riding interest in the historical arcana and personae that often populate his paintings. Of Coleman's work, The New York Times wrote that, “If P. T. Barnum had hired Breughel or Bosch to paint sideshow banners, they might have resembled the art of Joe Coleman.” While Berlin's Tagesspiegel said of Coleman, \"Like [George] Grosz in the 1920s, he holds a drastic mirror up to his own times.\""
tagline: "Painter"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1955-11-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.920882666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.joecoleman.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Coleman_(painter)"
    title: "Joe Coleman (painter)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "جو كولمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Coleman"
    title: "Joe Coleman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Coleman"
    title: "Joe Coleman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Coleman_(pintor)"
    title: "Joe Coleman (pintor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Coleman"
    title: "Joe Coleman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348494"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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