# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lawrence-weiner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:14:47.931Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lawrence-weiner"
name: "Lawrence Weiner"
slug: "lawrence-weiner"
description: "Lawrence Charles Weiner was an artist born and raised in New York City. One of the central figures in the formation of Conceptual Art in the 1960s, Lawrence Weiner explored the potentials of language as a sculptural medium. For him language could be presented in any format able to discourse with typical art subjects such as: language installed on a wall, printed as text in a book or catalog, spoken or performed in a film, spoken aloud in conversation, simply remembered, et cetera; as Lawrence explains in 1970:\"As to construction please remember that... there is no correct way to construct the piece as there is no incorrect way to construct it. If the piece is built it constitutes not how the piece looks but only how it could look.\""
tagline: "American artist (1942–2021)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1942-02-10"
deathDate: "2021-12-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump