# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ron-athey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:20:03.503Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ron-athey"
name: "Ron Athey"
slug: "ron-athey"
description: "Ron Athey is an American performance artist associated with body art and with extreme performance art and is said to be a \"central figure in the development of live art.\" He has performed in the U.S. and internationally. Athey's work explores challenging subjects like the relationships between desire, sexuality and traumatic experience. Many of his works include aspects of S&M in order to confront preconceived ideas about the body in relation to masculinity and religious iconography."
tagline: "American performance artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ron_Athey_%22Corpus_Christi%22_DDC4249_(1563288633).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1961-12-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.04
  momentum:             0.911854103343465
  historical:           6.852416
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0040475/"
    handle:    "nm0040475"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/580305"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%89"
    title: "رون اثى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Athey"
    title: "Ron Athey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Athey"
    title: "Ron Athey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Athey"
    title: "Ron Athey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Athey"
    title: "Ron Athey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%95%D1%98%D1%82%D0%B8"
    title: "Рон Ејти"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3940950"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1388629"
    title: "Ron Athey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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