Exhibitions - Ray Johnson Estate

2156 West Fulton Street

Chicago, IL

All The World Began With A Yes

September 8 - October 8, 2022

The Lodge LA

1024 N Western Ave.

Los Angeles, CA 90029

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RAY JOHNSON PHOTOGRAPHS The Morgan Library & Museum June 17 - October 2, 2022

The Morgan Library & Museum

225 Madison Ave.

New York, NY 10016

SONGS WITHOUT WORDS: THE ART OF MUSIC

Nassau County Museum of Art November 20, 2021 – March 6, 2022

Nassau County Museum of Art

One Museum Drive
Roslyn Harbor, NY 11576

Ray Johnson c/o

Art Institute of Chicago November 20, 2021 - March 21, 2022

Art Institute of Chicago
Michigan Avenue Entrance
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603

Interior Scroll or What I Did on My Vacation

July 24 - August 31, 2021

Soft Network at Stanley and Sons
The Art Building
Springs, NY

100 Sculptures: NYC

Anonymous Gallery June 30 - August 21, 2021

Anonymous Gallery
136 Baxter Street
New York, NY 10013
info@anonymousgallery.com

Surréalisme dans l'art américain

May 11 - September 26, 2021

Le Centre de la Vieille Charité
2 Rue de la Charité
Marseille, France, 13002

RAY JOHNSON: WHAT A DUMP

Curated by Jarrett Earnest David Zwirner Gallery April 8, 2021 - May 22, 2021

David Zwirner
525 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011

NOTHNG OF THE MONTH CLUB

Off Paradise, New York January 27 – May 27, 2021

Off Paradise
120 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013
+1 212 388 9010

Pure Form

David Zwirner Gallery January 14 - February 20, 2021

David Zwirner
34 E. 69th Street
New York, NY 10021
+1 212 517 8677

BOB BOX SVA

Flatiron Project Space November 7, 2019 - November 29, 2019

Flatiron Project Space
SVA BFA Visual & Critical Studies
133 W. 21st Street
New York, NY 10011

Slant Step Forward

Verge Center for the Arts September 12, 2019 - October 27, 2019

Verge Center for the Arts
625 S St.
Sacramento, CA 958211
info@vergeart.com

Frederick Weston: Happening

Group Exhibition at Gordon Robichaux April 28 – June 16, 2019

Gordon Robichaux
41 Union Square West, #925
(Enter at 22 East 17th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Friday-Sunday 12:00 - 6:00pm
And by appointment
(T:) 646-678-5532
(E:) gordonrobichaux@gmail.com

JR - ADRIAN PIPER - RAY JOHNSON

Museum Frieder Burda | Salon Berlin April 25 - August 5, 2019

Museum Frieder Burda | Salon Berlin
Auguststraße 11-13
10117 Berlin

Tel.: 0049 (0) 30 240 47404
E-Mail: salon(at)museum-frieder-burda.de

Snap + Share

SFMOMA March 30 – August 4, 2019

Transmitting Photographs from Mail Art to Social Networks

Strategic Vandalism: The Legacy of Asger Jorn

Curated by Axel Heil and Roberto Ohrt Petzel Gallery March 5, 2019 – April 13, 2019

Please Send To: Ray Johnson

Selections from the Permanent Collection Guild Hall October 20 - December 16, 2018

10 Years: 100 Sculptures

Curated by Todd von Ammon and Joseph Ian Henr No Gallery, LA September 21, 2018 - February 16, 2020

NO is pleased to present the fourth edition of 100 Sculptures.
Curated by Todd von Ammon, Joseph Ian Henrikson and Casey Gleghorn.

Pushing the Envelope

Mail Art from the Archives of American Art August 10, 2018 - January 4, 2019

Ray Johnson

Picasso Queen Museum Frieder Burda December 9, 2017 - May 21, 2018

The presentation in the mezzanine of the Museum Frieder Burda shows around 20 collages by the American artist Ray Johnson (1927-1995).

Josef and Anni and Ruth and Ray

September 20 - October 21, 2017

David Zwirner
34 East 69th Street
New York, NY 10021

FEEDBACK

July 6 - August 4, 2017

Marlborough Contemporary
545 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001

Ray Johnson

Matthew Marks Gallery May 5 - August 18, 2017

Matthew Marks Gallery
523 W. 24 Street
New York, NY
10011

Cal Conversations

Slow Reading/Slow Seeing January 18 - April 30, 2017

BAMPFA
University of California
2155 Center Street
Berkeley, CA 94704

Olympia

In collaboration with Karma Galerie Patrick Seguin October 17 - November 26, 2016

Galerie Patrick Seguin
5 rue des Taillandiers F-75011 | Paris FR

Ray Johnson: The Bob Boxes

Valade Family Gallery September 10 - October 8, 2016

Valade Family Gallery
A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education
College for Creative Studies
460 W. Baltimore
Detroit, MI 48202

The Olga Hirschhorn Collection

Artis-Naples, The Baker Museum September 6, 2016 - July 23, 2017

Artis-Naples, The Baker Museum
5833 Pelican Bay Boulevard
Naples, FL 34108-2740

Please Add To and Return To

A mail art collaboration with Performa October 27 - November 28, 2015

Printed Matter
231 11th Avenue
New York, NY 10001 USA

Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College

1933 - 1957 October 10, 2015 - January 24, 2016 ICA Boston; February 21 - May 15, 2016 Hammer Museum; September 17, 2016 - January 1, 2017 Wexner Center

Art AIDS America

October 3, 2015 - January 10, 2016, Tacoma Art Museum; July 13 - October 23, 2016, Bronx Museum of the Arts

Tacoma Art Museum
1701 Pacific Avenue
Tacoma, WA 98402

Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse
Bronx, New York 10456

40: The Anniversary Exhibition

Hal Bromm Gallery October 1, 2015 - March 31, 2016

Hal Bromm Gallery
90 West Broadway
New York, NY 10007

UMPAWAUG’S BLOOM

Ashley Carter/Phil Cote/Ray Johnson/Erin... September 5 - 25, 2015

Kimberly-Klark
788 Woodward Ave
Queens, NY, 11385

I Dropped the Lemon Tart

June 26 - August 21, 2015

Lisa Cooley
107 Norfolk Street
New York, NY 10002

The Nothing That Is

A Drawing Show in Five Parts June 5 - September 7, 2015

CAM Raleigh
409 W. Martin Street
Raleigh, NC 27603

#PleaseAddTo and Return To: Submissions

May 16, 2015

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Mail Art from the Ray Johnson Archive May 14 - October 2, 2015

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Mail Art from the Ray Johnson Archive May 14 - October 2, 2015

Richard L. Feigen & Co.
34 East 69th Street
New York, NY 10021

RE(a)D

Curated by Ryan Steadman Nathalie Karg Gallery May 10 - July 3, 2015

#RAWHIDE

Curated by Dylan Brant and Vivian Brodie May 9 - July 11, 2015

Saying Yes to Everything

Curated by Corrina Peipon November 15 – December 20, 2014

Honor Fraser
2622 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034

Ray Johnson's Art World

November 7, 2014 - January 17, 2015

Ray Johnson and Friends

Exhibition Posters and Ephemera October 15 - November 15, 2014

Ray Johnson

October 7 - November 1, 2014

Karma
39 Great Jones St.
New York, NY 10012

Art=Text=Art

September 20, 2014 - January 11, 2015

UB Anderson Gallery at the University at Buffalo, New York

Ray Johnson Designs

July 2 - September 29, 2014

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Library
4 West 54 Street
New York, NY 10019

Positivilly Marvillainous

July 5 - July 27, 2014

Eric Firestone Gallery
4 Newtown Lane
East Hampton, NY 11937

The Crystal Palace

June 28 - August 16, 2014

Rachel Uffner Gallery
170 Suffolk Street
New York, NY 10002

Another Look at Detroit

June 26 - August 8, 2014

Marlborough Chelsea
545 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001

Marianne Boesky Gallery
509 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

Pop Art Myths

June 10 - September 14, 2014

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Paseo del Prado 8
28014 Madrid
Spain

RAY JOHNSON: COLLAGES OF ART, POETRY, MUSIC,

April 9 - May 7, 2014

Sidney Mishkin Gallery
Baruch College
135 East 22nd Street
New York, NY 10010

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

THE IOLAS GALLERY 1955 - 1987 March 6 - April 26, 2014

Paul Kasmin Gallery
293 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10001

A Collective Invention: Photographs at Play

February 14 - May 18, 2014

The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016

Remix

Selections from the ICC January 17 - March 21, 2014

Bates College Museum of Art

Previously at:
Katonah Art Museum
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art

Return To Sender

Ray Johnson, Robert Warner August 30, 2013 - January 5, 2014

Krannert Art Museum
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion
500 East Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820

Xerography

September 8 - November 10, 2013

Firstsite
High Street
Colchester
Essex CO1 1JH

The Art of Handwriting

July 2 - October 22, 2013

Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery
1st Floor, Donald W. Reynolds Center
8th and F Streets, NW
Washington, D.C.

Glam! The Performance of Style

June 14 - September 22, 2013

Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt, Germany): June 13 - September 22, 2013

Lentos Kunstmuseum (Linz, Germany): October 18 - February 2, 2014

American Collage

June 10 - August 2, 2013

Gerald Peters Gallery, New York
24 East 78th Street New York, NY 10075
TEL 212.628.9760 FAX 212.628.9635
Hours: Monday- Friday 10am - 5pm or by appointment

Correspondences

February 1 - May 5, 2013

Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton
60, rue de Bassano
101, avenue des Champs-Élysées
75008 Paris

T. +33 1 53 57 52 03
F. +33 1 53 57 32
espaceculturel@louisvuitton.com

www.louisvuitton.com/espaceculturel

Death: A Self-Portrait

November 15, 2012 - February 28, 2013

Wellcome Collection
London, UK

Constructing/ Deconstructing: Abex Collage

November 8, 2012 - January 5, 2013

Hollis Taggart Galleries
958 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10021

Tel: 212.628.4000
Fax: 212.570.5786

50 Years of Mail Art

In Homage to Ray Johnson October 6 - 28, 2012

Galleria Comunale D'Arte Contemporanea
Via Matteotti, 79 - Castel San Piero Terme, BO (Italy)

Drop Me A Line

September 21 - November 24, 2012

Laure Genillard
2 Hanway Place
London, UK W1T 1HB

Happy Birthday

A Celebration of Chance and Silence September 5 - November 17, 2012

Pacific Northwest College of Art
Museum of Contemporary Craft
Portland, Oregon

Creature From the Blue Lagoon

July 21 - September 3, 2012

Martos Gallery
112 Sagaponack Road
Bridgehampton, New York 11932

(631) 613-6698

B-Out

July 5 - August 18, 2012

Andrew Edlin Gallery
New York, NY

Kurt Schwitters and Ray Johnson

Merz and Moticos June 22 - October 8, 2012

Musée Denys-Puech
Place Clemenceau
12000 Rodez, France
05 65 77 89 60

Ray Johnson: I Like Funny Stories

June 1 - August 1, 2012

Weserburg Museum of Modern Art
Teerhof 20
28199 Bremen
Germany
Tel.: ++49–(0)421–59839-0
Fax: ++49–(0)421–505247
E-mail mail(at)weserburg.de

The Persistence of Pollock

May 3 - July 28, 2012

Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center
East Hampton, NY

The Envelope Please

March 20 - April 20, 2012

The Century Association
7 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036

(212) 944-0090
http://www.thecentury.org/

Ray Johnson

The Dover Street Years, 1953-1960 March 18 - April 15, 2012

Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Artists on Artists

February 7 - July 29, 2012

Allen Memorial Art Museum
Oberlin College

Tables of Content

Ray Johnson and Bob Warner January 27 - May 20, 2012

Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley, CA

Ray Johnson: Silhouettes

November 12, 2011 – March 31, 2012

Auriel Scheibler
Berlin, Germany

Ripped: The Allure of Collage

October 29, 2011 - January 8, 2012

The Heckscher Museum of Art
Huntington, NY

Black Mountain College And Its Legacy

September 15 - October 29, 2011

Loretta Howard Gallery
New York, NY

Tables of Contents

Ray Johnson Bob Box Archive September 6 - October 16, 2011

Arcadia University Art Gallery
450 South Easton Road
Glenside, PA 19038

Ray's a Laugh

August 1 - September 7, 2011

Half Gallery
New York, New York

Ray and Bob Box

June 2 - June 30, 2011

Esopus Space
New York, NY

Midnight Party

March 19, 2011 - February 23, 2014

Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN

From BMC to NYC

The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson 1943-1967 February 19 – June 12, 2010

Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center
Asheville, NC

Ray Johnson, A Book About Death

December 12, 2009 – January 31, 2010

Kunstverein
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés

August 15, 2009 - November 29, 2009

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA 19130

Ray Johnson...Dali/Warhol and others...

April 29 – July 31, 2009

Richard L. Feigen & Co.
New York, NY

Please Add To & Return To Ray Johnson

February 28 - May 10, 2009

Raven Row
London, UK

Ray Johnson: The Early Years

June 2007

Richard L. Feigen & Co. at Art Basel
Basel, Switzerland

Ray Johnson: En Rapport

November 2, 2006 - January 6, 2007

Feigen Contemporary
New York, NY

Subterranean Monuments

Burckhardt, Johnson, Hujar June 30 - September 17, 2006

Frances Lehman Loeb Arts Center
Vassar College
124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604

(845) 437-5237

Dear Jackson Pollock,

Collages and Objects by Ray Johnson May 1 - August 3, 2003

Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center
East Hampton, NY

The Name of the Game

Ray Johnson's Postal Performance January 11 - March 9, 2003

National Museum of Contemporary Art
Oslo, Norway

Mind Games

Ray Johnson's Art of Ideas March 9 - April 21, 2001

Feigen Contemporary
535 W. 20th St.
New York, NY 10011

Ray Johnson: The Cult of Celebrity

June 8 - July 15, 2000

Manny Silverman Gallery
Los Angeles, CA

How Sad I am Today...

October 8 - 19 December, 1999

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Vancouver, BC

Ray Johnson: Correspondences

January 14 - March 21, 1999

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY

Ray Johnson: Conversations

April 24 - June 29, 1997

Asheville Art Museum
Asheville, NC

Ray Johnson: A Memorial Exhibition

April 27 - June 16, 1995

Richard L. Feigen & Co.
New York, NY

More Works by Ray Johnson

1951-1991 November 1 - December 15, 1991

Moore College of Art and Design
Philadelphia, PA

Viewpoints: Ray Johnson

September 30 - November 12, 1978

Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403

(612) 375-7600
http://www.walkerart.org/

37 Portraits

April 11, 1978 - May 6, 1978

Brooks Jackson Iolas Gallery
New York, New York

Silhouettes

August 20 - 30, 1977

Elaine Benson Gallery
Bridgehampton, NY

Correspondence

An Exhibition of the Letters of Ray Johnson October 31 - December 5, 1976

North Carolina Museum of Art
Raleigh, NC

Invitation Correspondence

February 11 - 27, 1974

Southern Illinois University
Macomb, IL

Ray Johnson's History

of the Betty Parsons Gallery January 9 - February 3, 1973

Betty Parsons Gallery
New York, NY

Famous People's Mother's Potato Mashers

April 5 - 29, 1972

Galleria Schwarz
Milan, Italy

Dollar Bills

September 16 - October 17, 1970

Richard Feigen Gallery
Chicago, IL

Ray Johnson

New York Correspondance School September 2 - October 6, 1970

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY

A Lot of Shirley Temple Post Cards Show

March 30 - April 25, 1968

Richard Feigen Gallery
New York, NY

Ray Johnson

October 21 - November 18, 1967

Richard Feigen Gallery
Chicago, IL

Words

October, 1967

Richard Feigen Gallery
New York, NY

Duchamp Combs

April 25 - May 27, 1967

Willard Gallery
New York, NY

Collages by Ray Johnson

October 19 - November 19, 1966

Richard Feigen Gallery
Chicago, IL

Ice

April 26 - May 21, 1966

Willard Gallery
New York, NY

Ray Johnson

April 6 - May 1, 1965

Willard Gallery
New York, NY

Black Mountain College: The Experimenters

February 28 – April 15, 2023

Jimmy DeSana: Submission

November 11, 2022 - April 16, 2023

Upcoming

Miniature Worlds:

Joseph Cornell, Ray Johnson, Yayoi Kusama

March 12 - June 25, 2023

BMC/MX Black Mountain College and Mexico:

translation in motion/traducción en movimiento

June 2 - September 9, 2023

Past