Editing Ray Johnson (section)

{{Short description|American artist (1927–1995)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name          = Ray Johnson
| image         = Ray Johnson.jpg
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| caption       = Johnson circa 1968
| birth_name    = Raymond Edward Johnson
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1927|10|16}}
| birth_place   = [[Detroit, Michigan]], U.S.
| death_date    = {{death date and age|1995|1|13|1927|10|16}}
| death_place   = [[Sag Harbor, New York]], U.S.
| field         = [[Intermedia]], [[conceptual art]], [[collage]]
| training      = 
| movement      = [[Mail art]], [[Fluxus]], [[neo-Dada]], [[pop art]]
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}}

'''Raymond Edward "Ray" Johnson''' (October 16, 1927 – January 13, 1995) was an American artist. Known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, he was a seminal figure in the history of [[Neo-Dada]] and early [[Pop art]] and was described as <ref name="artpool">{{Cite web|url=http://artpool.hu/Ray/index.html|title=Artpool's Ray Johnson Space|website=artpool.hu}}</ref><ref name="nytimes">[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/19/obituaries/ray-johnson-67-pop-artist-known-for-his-work-in-collage.html "Ray Johnson, 67, Pop Artist Known for His Work in Collage"], by Carol Vogel, ''The New York Times'', January 19, 1995</ref> "New York's most famous unknown artist".<ref name="artpool" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=April 11, 1965 |title=What Happened? Nothing |url=https://www.rayjohnsonestate.com/attachment/en/6115ed1ce1743c7ca22a7462/Press/6322718c182399c5980087cb |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=Ray Johnson Estate}}</ref> Johnson also staged and participated in early [[performance art]] events as the founder of a far-ranging [[mail art]] network – the New York Correspondence School –<ref name="artpool" /><ref name="nytimes" /><ref name="1stdigital" /> which picked up momentum in the 1960s and is still active today. He is occasionally associated with members of the [[Fluxus]] movement but was never a member. He lived in New York City from 1949 to 1968, when he moved to a small town in [[Long Island]] and remained there until his suicide.<ref name="1stdigital">Bloch, Mark. [http://www.panmodern.com/Ray.html "An Illustrated Introduction to Ray Johnson 1927-1995"], 1995</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=I Is an Other: The Mail Art of Ray Johnson|url=https://hyperallergic.com/230800/i-is-an-other-the-mail-art-of-ray-johnson/|website=Hyperallergic|access-date=4 July 2017|date=22 August 2015}}</ref>