# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-shimomura
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:53:15.886Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-shimomura"
name: "Roger Shimomura"
slug: "roger-shimomura"
description: "Roger Shimomura is an American artist and a retired professor at the University of Kansas, having taught there from 1969 to 2004. His art, showcased across the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and Israel, often combines American popular culture, traditional Asian tropes, and stereotypical racial imagery to provoke thought and debate on issues of identity and social perception."
tagline: "American painter (born 1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roger_Shimomura_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1939-06-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.19
  momentum:             0.8291457286432161
  historical:           5.015516
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "روجر شيمومورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Shimomura"
    title: "Roger Shimomura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Shimomura"
    title: "Roger Shimomura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%92'%D7%A8_%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%94"
    title: "רוג'ר שימומורה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Shimomura"
    title: "Roger Shimomura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7358909"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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