# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simone-leigh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:52:43.315Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simone-leigh"
name: "Simone Leigh"
slug: "simone-leigh"
description: "Simone Leigh is an American artist from Chicago with a studio in Brooklyn. She works in various media including sculpture, installations, video, performance, and social practice. Leigh has described her work as auto-ethnographic, and her interests include African art and vernacular objects, performance, and feminism. Her work is concerned with the marginalization of women of color and reframes their experience as central to society. Leigh has said that her work is focused on \"Black female subjectivity,\" with an interest in complex interplays between various strands of history. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023."
tagline: "African American artist (born 1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simone_Leigh_2_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.29697866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Simone Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "بيترو لي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "بيترو لى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simone Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Leigh"
    title: "Simone Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Leigh"
    title: "Simone Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Leigh"
    title: "Simone Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Leigh"
    title: "Simone Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Leigh"
    title: "Simone Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%9C%D7%99"
    title: "סימון לי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simone Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Leigh"
    title: "Simone Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16200002"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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