# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ragnar-kjartansson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:05:22.930Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ragnar-kjartansson"
name: "Ragnar Kjartansson"
slug: "ragnar-kjartansson"
description: "Ragnar Kjartansson is an Icelandic contemporary artist who engages multiple artistic mediums, creating video installations, performances, drawings, and paintings that draw upon myriad historical and cultural references. An underlying pathos and irony connect his works, with each deeply influenced by the comedy and tragedy of classical theater. The artist blurs the distinctions between mediums, approaching his painting practice as performance, likening his films to paintings, and his performances to sculpture. Throughout, Ragnar conveys an interest in beauty and its banality, and he uses durational, repetitive performance as a form of exploration."
tagline: "Icelandic performance artist (*1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ragnar_Kjartansson%2C_in_his_installation_at_the_Migros_Museum%2C_2012_in_Z%C3%BCrich.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1976"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.94
  momentum:             6.623376623376624
  historical:           8.584921333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/152387"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar_Kjartansson_(K%C3%BCnstler)"
    title: "Ragnar Kjartansson (Künstler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar_Kjartansson_(performance_artist)"
    title: "Ragnar Kjartansson (performance artist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar_Kjartansson"
    title: "Ragnar Kjartansson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar_Kjartansson"
    title: "Ragnar Kjartansson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar_Kjartansson"
    title: "Ragnar Kjartansson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar_Kjartansson_(myndlistarma%C3%B0ur)"
    title: "Ragnar Kjartansson (myndlistarmaður)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%9A%D1%8C%D1%8F%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Рагнар Кьяртанссон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar_Kjartansson_(performancekonstn%C3%A4r)"
    title: "Ragnar Kjartansson (performancekonstnär)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c2a99f6b-0738-4e3b-8263-ac7e301ed8ea"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1565936"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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