# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nancy-davidson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:21:10.816Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nancy-davidson"
name: "Nancy Davidson"
slug: "nancy-davidson"
description: "Nancy Davidson is an American artist best known for large-scale inflatable sculptures regarded as hyper-feminized abstractions of the human female form. Bulbous and flesh-like, the sculptures resemble buttocks and breasts and employ erotic cultural signifiers in their shape and decoration. Davidson's work spans art media but centers around sculpture. It is largely post-minimal in character and described by commentators as providing a feminist counterpoint to the male-dominated, minimalist sculpture of the 1960s, as well as to cultural tropes involving bodies that the works themselves invoke. Of particular note are Davidson's use of humor and a sense of absurdity to seemingly both celebrate and subvert these tropes, inviting their investigation but without the seriousness and moralism that often accompany critical works. Sculpture Magazine critic Robert Raczka wrote that \"The confectionary color and oversize scale\" of Davidson's sculpture creates a \"playfully upbeat mood that allows feminist and gender issues to rise to the surface at irregular intervals, without didacticism.\" The New Art Examiner's Susan Canning described it as establishing \"a context where all can revel in the transgressive and liberating power of the grotesque.\""
tagline: "American feminist artist"
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gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1943-11-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump