Keith Haring
(Pennsylvania, 1958- New York, 1990)
American artist, widely regarded as one of the most recognized names in Graffiti and Pop art.
Trained at the Pittsburgh Center of Arts and the School of Visual Arts, New York, he was a friend of Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Soon after completing school, Haring began experimenting with Graffiti art on the streets of New York.
'Graffiti were the most beautiful things I ever saw,' commented Keith. 'The kids who were doing it were very young and from the streets, but they had this incredible mastery of drawing which totally blew me away. I mean, just the technique of drawing with spray paint is amazing, because it's incredibly difficult to do. And the fluidity of line, and the scale, and always the hard-edged black line that tied the drawings together! It was the line I had been obsessed with since childhood!'
Haring’s first show was held in October 1982 at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in SoHo. The exhibition drew some 4,000 people and showed Haring as prolific and electric, with works on the street styles of breakdancing, rap music and graffiti to the sexual freedom of the period and the greater interchange between races.
His style came to be associated with the artistic traditions of Africa, Asia, Australia, Oceania, and the Americas, with its powerful imagery of social consciousness. Despite his youth and untimely death from AIDS, at the age of 27, Haring was invited to show his work - from 1980 to 1985 - at the Bordeaux Contemporary Art Museum in France and at the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands.
Selected Exhibitions: Museums and Galleries |
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Keith Haring - Sculptures, Deitch Projects, New York |
| 2005 |
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The Keith Haring Show, The Trienniale of Milan, Italy |
| 2005 |
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Keith Haring - l'Art à la plage #4, beaches of Ramatuelle-Saint Tropez |
| 2004 |
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Keith Haring: New Wave Aztec, The Sackler Center for Arts Education, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
| 2003 |
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Keith Haring: Short Message, Posters 1982-1990, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum Heidenheim; Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Germany |
| 2002 |
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Sex Show, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France |
| 1997 |
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Retrospective, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY |
| 1989 |
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Gallery 121, Antwerp (solo) |
| 1986 |
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Stedelijk Museum (solo) |
| 1982 |
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Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (solo) |
Literature: Books and Catalogs |
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| 2005 |
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Keith Haring: Sculptures, Deitch Project and Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont |
| 2005 |
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L'art à la plage #4: Keith Haring, Galerie Navarra, Italy |
| 2005 |
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The Keith Haring Show, The Trienniale of Milan, Skira Edition |
| 2005 |
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Keith Haring a Milano, a cura di A. Galasso, Milano, Johan & Levi Editore |
| 2001 |
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In Fumo, a cura di G. Di Pietrantonio, Bergamo, Lubrina Editore |
| 1999 |
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Keith Haring: 12 Sculptures, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris |
| 1997 |
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Keith Haring: Subway Drawings e la New York Street Art, a cura di E. Politi, Milano, Mazzotta |
| 1993 |
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L. Harambourg, L'Ecole de Paris, 1945-1965, Neuchatel, Ides & Calendes |
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ORIGINAL ART BY KEITH HARING AT PICASSOMIO
POP ART AT PICASSOMIO
MODERN MASTERS AT PICASSOMIO
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