# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sonya-clark
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:47:01.212Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sonya-clark"
name: "Sonya Clark"
slug: "sonya-clark"
description: "Sonya Clark is an American artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Clark is a fiber artist known for using a variety of materials including human hair and combs to address race, culture, class, and history. Her beaded headdress assemblages and braided wig series of the late 1990s, which received critical acclaim, evoked African traditions of personal adornment and moved these common forms into the realm of personal and political expression. Although African art and her Caribbean background are important influences, Clark also builds on practices of assemblage and accumulation used by American artists such as Betye Saar and David Hammons."
tagline: "African American artist (born 1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/A_selfie_of_Sonya_Clark.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:           40.36
  momentum:             1.063829787234043
  historical:           5.077898666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/sysclark/"
    handle:    "sysclark"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.sonyaclark.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Clark"
    title: "Sonya Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_(%D9%81%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A9)"
    title: "سونيا كلارك (فنانة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_(%D9%81%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87)"
    title: "سونيا كلارك (فنانه)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Clark"
    title: "Sonya Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Clark"
    title: "Sonya Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Clark"
    title: "Sonya Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7562570"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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