Ray Johnson

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Ray Johnson was an American artist and collagist whose playful, conceptual "mail art" and subversive approach to pop culture made him a pivotal figure in the development of Neo-Dada and early conceptual art.

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instanceOf artist
collagist
human
mail artist
causeOfDeath apparent suicide by drowning
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1927-10-16
dateOfDeath 1995-01-13
educatedAt Black Mountain College NERFINISHED
familyName Johnson
fieldOfWork collage
conceptual art
mail art
performance-related art
givenName Raymond NERFINISHED
hasWorkInCollection Art Institute of Chicago NERFINISHED
Museum of Modern Art, New York NERFINISHED
Walker Art Center NERFINISHED
Whitney Museum of American Art NERFINISHED
influenced Fluxus artists NERFINISHED
conceptual art
contemporary collage artists
mail art movement
influencedBy Dada NERFINISHED
Marcel Duchamp NERFINISHED
Pop art NERFINISHED
Surrealism
knownFor collage
founder of the New York Correspondence School
mail art
use of popular culture imagery
languageOfWorkOrName English
mannerOfDeath suicide
movement Fluxus-adjacent art
Neo-Dada NERFINISHED
early conceptual art
name Ray Johnson NERFINISHED
nationality American
notableWork Bunny Head collages NERFINISHED
Moticos NERFINISHED
New York Correspondence School NERFINISHED
Untitled (collage works on cardboard and paper) NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Detroit, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Sag Harbor, New York, United States NERFINISHED
residence Locust Valley, Long Island, New York, United States NERFINISHED
New York City
surface form: New York City, New York, United States
sexOrGender male
studiedUnder Buckminster Fuller NERFINISHED
Josef Albers NERFINISHED
Robert Motherwell NERFINISHED
workLocation New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED

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Neo-Dada hasKeyArtist Ray Johnson