Biography

Keith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has “become a widely recognized visual language”. Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness. In addition to solo gallery exhibitions, Haring participated in renowned national and international group shows such as documenta in Kassel, the Whitney Biennial in New York, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. The Whitney Museum held a retrospective of his art in 1997.

Haring’s popularity grew from his spontaneous drawings in New York City subways—chalk outlines of figures, dogs, and other stylized images on blank black advertising spaces. After gaining public recognition, he created colorful larger scale murals, many commissioned. He produced more than 50 public artworks between 1982 and 1989, many were created voluntarily for hospitals, day care centers, and schools. In 1986, Haring opened the Pop Shop as an extension of his work. His later work often conveyed political and societal themes— anti-crack, anti-apartheid, safe sex, homosexuality and AIDS—through his own iconography.

Haring died on February 16, 1990, of AIDS-related complications.

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Keith Haring

ARTWORKS Keith Haring

Pop Shop II, 1988
silkscreen on papier
30.5 x 38 cm
Keith Haring
Pop Shop II

1988

silkscreen on papier

38 / 200

30.5 x 38 cm

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Growing Suite, Plate V, 1988
silkscreen on paper
73.2 x 97.5 cm
Keith Haring
Growing Suite, Plate V

1988

silkscreen on paper

50 x 100 cm

73.2 x 97.5 cm

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Chocolate Buddha 1, 1989
lithograph on paper
55 x 70 cm
Keith Haring
Chocolate Buddha 1

1989

lithograph on paper

18 / 90

55 x 70 cm

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Chocolate Buddha 2, 1989
lithograph on paper
55 x 70 cm
Keith Haring
Chocolate Buddha 2

1989

lithograph on paper

18 / 90

55 x 70 cm

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Chocolate Buddha 3, 1989
lithograph on paper
55 x 70 cm
Keith Haring
Chocolate Buddha 3

1989

lithograph on paper

18 / 90

55 x 70 cm

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Chocolate Buddha 4, 1989
lithograph on paper
55 x 70 cm
Keith Haring
Chocolate Buddha 4

1989

lithograph on paper

18 / 90

55 x 70 cm

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Chocolate Buddha 5, 1989
lithograph on paper
55 x 70 cm
Keith Haring
Chocolate Buddha 5

1989

lithograph on paper

18 / 90

55 x 70 cm

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Untitled (Dancing Figures), 1985
silkscreen on paper
60 x 80 cm
Keith Haring
Untitled (Dancing Figures)

1985

silkscreen on paper

E.A. 20 / 20

60 x 80 cm

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E.A. XX/XX signed for John and Jane

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