Biography

Keith Haring
(1958-1990)

Keith Haring was born in Kutztown, Pennsylvania in 1958. He moved to New York City in 1976 to study in the School of Visual Arts, where he developed his trademark graffiti-inspired style. During the 1980s, he found a space for expression in the New York subway, where he created marker drawings on walls and advertisements. These drawings would eventually evolve into paintings, large-scale murals and varied art objects in which a myriad of interlocking cartoon-style figures would interact, in often fantastic fashion. Haring’s involvement in the New York club culture of the 1970s and 1980s provided him with a variety of motifs and imagery from contemporary life to incorporate into his bold, colorful works. Haring further blended the boundaries between high and low art when he opened The Pop Shop, where he sold multiple products with what became popular motifs. After being diagnosed with AIDS in the latter part of the 80s, the political element of Haring’s work became strong, as a means to promote awareness about the disease.

Before his death in 1990, Keith Haring exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Recent solo exhibitions were held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, France in 2008, and at the Fundacion Caixa Galicia in Ferrol, Spain in 2007. He also had exhibitions in major institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, and the Kunsthalle in Cologne. In 2008 after ten years of research Rizzoli published a comprehensive monograph of Haring’s work, which is closely based on the concept the artist himself wanted to publish before his death.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008

Keith Haring: Drawings, Paintings and Sculptures, Skarstedt Gallery, New York
Keith Haring Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
2007

Keith Haring: Editions on Paper, Egon Schiele Centrum, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic

Keith Haring: The Living Line, Ludwigmuseum, Koblenz, Germany

Keith Haring: Works from the Navarra Collection, Galerie de lIndependence and Parc Heintz Fondation, Dexia, Luxembourg

Complete Editions on Paper, Fundacion Caixa Galicia, Ferrol, Spain

Keith Haring: The Milwaukee Mural, Serrone della Villa Reale, Monza, Italy

Keith Haring - Untitled (Acrobats), 1986, Katonah Museum of Art, South Lawn, Katonah, NY
2006

Keith Haring: Journey of the Radiant Baby, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
Mass Production: Artists’ Multiples and the Marketplace, Emily Davis Gallery of Myers School of Art, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 


Editions on Paper, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Keith Haring: Art and Commerce, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Keith Haring: POP Haring - Symbols and Icons Editions on paper from the Estate of Keith Haring, Symbols and Icons Editions on paper from the Estate of Keith Haring; Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore

Keith Haring: Paintings, Sculpture, Objects and Drawings, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Against All Odds, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Complete Editions on Paper, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Depsito de Aguas, Vitoria, Spain, Fundacion Caixa Galicia, Ferrol, Spain

Keith Haring: Monumental Sculptures, Poppy & Pierre Salinger Foundation, Le Thor, France

Keith Haring Drawings, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY

Keith Haring - Early Drawings, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom

Keith Haring, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France

Keith Haring Prints, Memo-art Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
2005

Keith Haring, Alpen-Adria Galerie, Klagenfurt, Austria

Keith Haring Sculptures, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Keith Haring, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, England

Galleria Salvatore Ala, Milan, Italy

Keith Haring: Urban Memory, Fundacion ICO, Madrid, Spain

Five Keith Haring Sculptures, Somerset House, London, England

Three Keith Haring Sculptures, Lever House, New York, NY 

The Keith Haring Show (View Selected Works), La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy

Editions on Paper, Fundacion Canal, Madrid, Spain

Keith Haring: Coloring Book Drawings, Briggs-Robinson Gallery, New York, NY
L'Art a la Plage #4: Keith Haring, Galerie Enrico Navarra in cooperation with Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, St Tropez, France
2004

Keith Haring, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal, Alte Rathaus, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany

The Characters of Keith Haring, Children's Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
Photos from the Archives: the Artist at Work, Pop Shop, New York, NY
Keith Haring: New Wave Aztec, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY
2003

Keith Haring: Short Message. Posters 1982-1990, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, Kunstmuseum, Heidenheim, Germany, Kunsthaus, Kaufbeuren, Germany

Pop Figuration, Deitch Projects, New York, NY

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Four Sculptures, American Academy, Rome, Italy

Two Sculptures, Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy
Haring Drawings, Culturgest, Porto, Portugal

Kagan-Martos Gallery, New York, NY

Keith Haring, Centro Cutural Banco do Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil, CCBB, Brasilia, Brazil
2002

Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Keith Haring: Heaven and Hell, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland

Keith Haring: Tarps, Van de Weghe Gallery, New York, NY
Sex Show, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France

Keith Haring: Short Message. Posters 1982-1990, Versicherungskammer Bayern, Munich, Germany
2001

Keith Haring Sculptures, Rome, Italy

The 10 Commandments, Wapping Power Station, London, England

Castello Ursino, Catania, Sicily, Italy

Keith Haring: Heaven and Hell, Museum fur Neue Kunst/ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, Georgetown, Grand Cayman

Paradise Garage, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2000

Keith Haring: the SVA Years, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Keith Haring, Isetan Museum, Tokyo, Japan, Sapporo City Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, Niitsu City Museum, Niigata, Japan, Amos Anderson Museum, Helsinki, Finland

Keith Haring: Sculptures on the Kurfürstendamm, Berlin Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany

Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy

Keith Haring Sculptures, Rome, Italy
1999

Keith Haring, Eki Museum, Kyoto, Japan, Kurashiki City Museum, Kurashiki, Japan, Iwaki City Museum, Iwaki, Japan, Isetan Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Keith Haring Sculptures, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
Keith Haring: A Retrospective, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France

Keith Haring, Musee Maillol, Paris, France

Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY
Peter Gwyther Gallery, London, England

Casino Knokke, Knokke, Belgium

Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AR

Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Keith Haring in Pisa, Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pisa, Italy
1998

Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

Wetterling Teo Gallery, Singapore

Keith Haring: A Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, Canada

Complete Editions on Paper, Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau, Germany, Quartier 206, Berlin, Germany

Dorothy Blau Gallery, Miami, FL

Keith Haring in San Francisco, Installation of 10 sculptures in San Francisco, sponsored by the San Francisco Art Commission; San Francisco, CA
Keith Haring in West Hollywood, Installation of 10 sculptures along the Santa Monica Boulevard median, sponsored by the City of West Hollywood; West Hollywood, CA
Tasende Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997

Complete Editions on Paper, Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany, Historisches Museum der Pfalz-Speyer, Speyer, Germany, Kunsthalle, Dresden, Germany

Keith Haring: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

Keith Haring on Park Avenue, Installation of 13 sculptures on the Park Avenue Malls between 53rd and 74th Streets, sponsored by the Public Art Fund; New York, NY
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Seagram Gallery, New York, NY
Keith Haring: Blurred Boundaries, Lobby Gallery, 717 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
1996

Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY

Complete Editions on Paper, Museum Bochum, Leipzig, Germany, Museum der Bildenden, Leipzig, Germany

The 10 Commandments, Bruderkirche and Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

Dorothy Blau, Miami, FL

Keith Haring: A Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
1995

Keith Haring Altarpiece, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MI
Keith Haring: A Retrospective, Fundacion La Caixa, Madrid, Spain, Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna, Austria

Keith Haring: Works on Paper 1989, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Hans Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany

Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

Keith Haring: Family and Friends Collect, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
1994

Keith Haring, curated by Germano Celant; Castellodi Rivoli, Turin, Italy, Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1993

Queens Museum, Queens, NY
DIA Art Foundation, Bridgehampton, NY
Complete Editions on Paper, Galerie Littmann, Basel, Switzerland, Galerie der Stadt, Stuttgart, Germany, Aktionsforum, Munich, Germany

Keith Haring: A Retrospective, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Galerie Nikolaus Sonne, Berlin, Germany

Musee de Louvain-la-Neuve, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Michael Fuchs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1992

Gallery 56, Budapest, Hungary

Tabula Gallery, Tubingen, Germany

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1991

Hete Hunermann Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany

Keith Haring: Future Primeval, University Galleries, Normal, IL, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium

Haring, Disney, Warhol, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Dante Park, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Chase Manhattan Bank, Soho Branch, New York, NY
Erika Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Molinar Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Steffanoni Gallery, Milan, Italy
1990

Galerie La Poche, Paris, France

Charles Lucien Gallery, New York, NY
Philip Samuels Fine Art, St. Louis, MI
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Keith Haring: Future Primeval, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Galerie Nikolaus Sonne, Berlin, Germany

Richard Nadeau Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Gallery 56, Geneva, Switzerland

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1989

Gallery 121, Antwerp, Belgium

Casa Sin Nombre, Santa Fe, NM
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Galerie Hete Hunermann, Dusseldorf, Germany
1988

Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hans Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
1987

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

Gallery 121, Antwerp, Belgium

Casino Knokke, Knokke, Belgium

Kutztown New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA
Galerie Rivolta, Lausanne, Switzerland
1986

Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Sculpture Garden, New York, NY
Art in the Park, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vienna Festival ‘86
1985

Schellmann & Kluser, Munich, West Germany

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France
1984

University Museum of Iowa City, Iowa City, IA
Paul Maenz Gallery, Cologne, West Germany
Keith Haring: Milan 1984, with LA II; Salvatore Ala Gallery, Milan, Italy

Paradise Garage, New York, NY
Galerie Corinne Hummel, Basel, Switzerland
Semaphore East, New York, NY
1983

Fun Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Watari, Tokyo, Japan

Lucio Amelio Gallery, Naples, Italy

Matrix 75, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Robert Fraser Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Whitney Biennale
1982

Rotterdam Arts Council, Rotterdam, Holland

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1981

Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
1980

Westbeth Painters Space, New York, NY
P.S. 122, New York, NY
Club 57, New York, NY
1978

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA