# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-otterness
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:08:54.321Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-otterness"
name: "Tom Otterness"
slug: "tom-otterness"
description: "Tom Otterness is an American sculptor who is one of America's most prolific public artists. Otterness's works adorn parks, plazas, subway stations, libraries, courthouses and museums around the world, notably in New York City's Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City and Life Underground in the 14th Street – Eighth Avenue New York Subway station. He contributed a balloon to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In 1994 he was elected as a member of the National Academy Museum."
tagline: "American artist (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom-otterness.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1952"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.81
  momentum:             4.007633587786259
  historical:           5.725814666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/tomotterness/"
    handle:    "tomotterness"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2751241/"
    handle:    "nm2751241"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tomotterness.net/"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Otterness"
    title: "Tom Otterness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Otterness"
    title: "Tom Otterness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Otterness"
    title: "Tom Otterness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B9"
    title: "トム・オターネス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Otterness"
    title: "Tom Otterness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1772326"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3909729"
    title: "Tom Otterness"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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