# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:03:17.217Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-johnson"
name: "Ray Johnson"
slug: "ray-johnson"
description: "Raymond Edward \"Ray\" Johnson 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 \"New York's most famous unknown artist\". 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 – 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."
tagline: "American artist (1927-1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ray_Johnson%2C_Feb_1984.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1927-10-16"
deathDate: "1995-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.92
  momentum:             4.67065868263473
  historical:           12.31991066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1838464/"
    handle:    "nm1838464"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "راي جونسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ray Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Johnson"
    title: "Ray Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Johnson"
    title: "Ray Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Johnson"
    title: "Ray Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Johnson"
    title: "Ray Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Johnson"
    title: "Ray Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8C%D5%A5%D5%B5_%D5%8B%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%BD%D5%B8%D5%B6"
    title: "Ռեյ Ջոնսոն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Johnson"
    title: "Ray Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Johnson"
    title: "Ray Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D1%8D%D0%B9"
    title: "Джонсон, Рэй"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Johnson"
    title: "Ray Johnson"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178040"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3282933"
    title: "Ray Johnson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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