# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/keith-sonnier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:48:29.924Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/keith-sonnier"
name: "Keith Sonnier"
slug: "keith-sonnier"
description: "Keith Sonnier was a postminimalist sculptor, performance artist, video and light artist. Sonnier was one of the first artists to use light in sculpture in the 1960s. With his use of neon in combination with ephemeral materials he achieved international recognition. Sonnier was part of the Process Art movement."
tagline: "American visual artist (1941–2020)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1941-07-31"
deathDate: "2020-07-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6574394463667821
  historical:           8.544421333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كيث سونير"
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    title: "Keith Sonnier"
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    title: "Keith Sonnier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Sonnier"
    title: "Keith Sonnier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Sonnier"
    title: "Keith Sonnier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%80%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%82"
    title: "Соннир, Кит"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Sonnier"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Sonnier"
    title: "Keith Sonnier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9F%BA%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E7%B4%A2%E5%B0%BC%E5%B0%94"
    title: "基斯·索尼尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327520"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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