# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/miriam-schapiro
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:29:51.417Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/miriam-schapiro"
name: "Miriam Schapiro"
slug: "miriam-schapiro"
description: "Miriam \"Mimi\" Schapiro was a Canadian-born artist based in the United States. She was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and a pioneer of feminist art. She was also considered a leader of the Pattern and Decoration art movement. Her artwork blurs the line between fine art and craft. She incorporated craft elements into her paintings due to their association with women and femininity. She often used icons that are associated with women, such as hearts, floral decorations, geometric patterns, and the color pink. In the 1970s, she made the hand fan, a typically small woman's object, heroic by painting it six feet by twelve feet. \"The fan-shaped canvas, a powerful icon, gave her the opportunity to experiment … Out of this emerged a surface of textured coloristic complexity and opulence that formed the basis of her new personal style. The kimono, fans, houses, and hearts were the form into which she repeatedly poured her feelings and desires, her anxieties, and hopes\"."
tagline: "Canadian artist (1923-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Womanhouse_exhibition_catalog_cover.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1923-11-15"
deathDate: "2015-06-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.88
  momentum:             9.375
  historical:           12.026388
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ميريام شابيرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Miriam Schapiro"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Schapiro"
    title: "Miriam Schapiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Schapiro"
    title: "Miriam Schapiro"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Schapiro"
    title: "Miriam Schapiro"
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    title: "میریام شاپیرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Schapiro"
    title: "Miriam Schapiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95"
    title: "מרים שפירו"
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    title: "Միրիամ Շապիրո"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Miriam Schapiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Miriam Schapiro"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump