Keith Haring
(1958-1990)
Keith Haring was born in Kutztown, Pennsylvania in 1958 and moved to New York City in 1976 to study at the School of Visual Arts. In New York, Haring developed his trademark, graffiti-inspired style that has become integral in contemporary, popular culture. During the 1980s, he found a space for expression in the New York subways, 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 interlocking, cartoon-style figures would interact in often fantastic fashion. Haring’s involvement in the New York club culture of the 1970s and 1980s deeply influenced his work, providing him with motifs and imagery from contemporary life that he included throughout his bold, colorful compositions. 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 he was diagnosed with AIDS in the latter part of the 80s, Haring's work became a politically charged vehicle used to promote awareness.
Before his death in 1990, Keith Haring exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Recent solo exhibitions were held at the Albertina in Vienna in 2018, the de Young Museum in San Francisco in 2014, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2013, 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.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2018
Art is Life, Life is Art, Dongaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, South Korea
Apocalypse, Pace Prints, New York
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Drawing Social Impact, Nakamura Keith Haring Collection, Kobuchizawa, Japan
Keith Haring: The Chicago Mural, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Keith Haring: The Alphabet, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
2017
The End of the Line, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Keith Haring: Posters, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Keith Haring: About Art, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Keith Haring and Japan: Pop to Neo-Japonism, Nakamura Keith Haring Collection, Kobuchizawa, Japan
2016
Post Pop: Prints of Keith Haring, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
2015
Keith Haring: Heaven and Hell, Skarstedt, New York
Keith Haring: Multiplexism, Nakamura Keith Haring Collection, Kobuchizawa, Japan
2014
Keith Haring: The Political Line, The de Young Museum, San Francisco, California; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris, France
Pace Prints, New York
2013
Languages, Fales Library, New York
The Political Line Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
The Political Line/Grands Formats, Le Centquatre, Paris, France
2012
Keith Haring: 1978-1982, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Galeria de Art del Centro de Extension de la Pontifica Universidad Catholica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Keith Haring Blueprints, Pace Prints Chelsea, New York
Vitrine Rotation, New York Historical Society, New York
Murale di Milwaukee, Sala dei Porti, nel percorso di visita degli Appartamenti settecenteschi di Palazzo Reale , Caserta, Italy
2011
Keith Haring 1978-1982, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
The Hieroglyphics of Keith Haring, Musee en Herbe, Paris, France
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Pace Prints, New York
Keith Haring: Subway Drawings, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
2010
Keith Haring: A New Dimension, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
The Keith Haring Show, SOMA Museum of Arts, Seoul, Korea
Keith Haring: 20th Anniversary, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York
Keith Haring Editions on Paper, Caixa Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Keith Haring Editions on Paper, Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Keith Haring: Pop Art Superstar, Lotte Art Center, Busan, South Korea
Keith Haring: Pop Art Superstar, Sangrok Museum Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea
Institut d'Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne, France
2009
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Vecchiato Gallery, Milan, Italy
Vecchiato Gallery, Padua, Italy
The Keith Haring Show, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Mons, Belgium
Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm, Germany
Keith Haring: Print Retrospective 1982 - 1990, Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery of Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
2008
Keith Haring: Drawings, Paintings and Sculptures, Skarstedt Gallery, New York
Keith Haring Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France. Traveled to Ludwigmuseum, Budapest, Hungary
Keith Haring Houston Street & Bowery Mural recreation, Deitch Projects, New York
The Ten Commandments, Deitch Projects, 4-40 44th Dr, Long Island City, New York
Against All Odds: Keith Haring in the Rubell Family Collection (View Selected Works), Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Keith Haring, Two Sculptures (View Selected Works), UNAIDS, Geneva, Switzerland
Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris, 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, New York
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, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
Keith Haring: Paintings, Sculpture, Objects and Drawings, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
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
Keith Haring - Early Drawings, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom
Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France
Keith Haring Prints, Memo-art Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
2005
Alpen-Adria Galerie, Klagenfurt, Austria
Keith Haring Sculptures, Deitch Projects, New York
Keith Haring, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, United Kingdom
Galleria Salvatore Ala, Milan, Italy
Keith Haring: Urban Memory, Fundacion ICO, Madrid, Spain
Five Keith Haring Sculptures, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
Three Keith Haring Sculptures, Lever House, New York
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
L'Art a la Plage #4: Keith Haring, Galerie Enrico Navarra in cooperation with Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, St Tropez, France
2004
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
Photos from the Archives: the Artist at Work, Pop Shop, New York
Keith Haring: New Wave Aztec, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Alona Kagan Gallery, New York
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
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Four Sculptures, American Academy, Rome, Italy
Two Sculptures, Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy
Haring Drawings, Culturgest, Porto, Portugal
Kagan-Martos Gallery, New York
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, Netherlands
Keith Haring: Tarps,Van de Weghe Gallery, New York
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, United Kingdom
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
2000
Keith Haring: the SVA Years, School of Visual Arts, New York
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
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, California; Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
Keith Haring: A Retrospective, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France
Musee Maillol, Paris, France
Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, New York
Peter Gwyther Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Casino Knokke, Knokke, Belgium
Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Deitch Projects, New York
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, Florida; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; 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; 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
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Seagram Gallery, New York
Keith Haring: Blurred Boundaries, Lobby Gallery, 717 Fifth Avenue, New York
1996
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
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, California, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO
Keith Haring: A Retrospective, Fundacion La Caixa, Madrid, Spain, Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Keith Haring: Works on Paper 1989, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
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
1993
Queens Museum, Queens, New York
DIA Art Foundation, Bridgehampton, New York
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
1991
Hete Hunermann Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Keith Haring: Future Primeval,v University Galleries, Normal, Illinois; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida; Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium
"Haring, Disney, Warhol, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Dante Park, Lincoln Center, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank, Soho Branch, New York
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
Philip Samuels Fine Art, St. Louis, MO
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Keith Haring: Future Primeval, Queens Museum, Queens, New York
Galerie Nikolaus Sonne, Berlin, Germany
Richard Nadeau Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Gallery 56, Geneva, Switzerland
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
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
Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
1987
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
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
Art in the Park, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vienna Festival, Vienna, Austria
1985
Schellmann & Kluser, Munich, West Germany
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
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
Galerie Corinne Hummel, Basel, Switzerland
Semaphore East, New York
1983
Fun Gallery, New York
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
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1982
Rotterdam Arts Council, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
1981
Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
1980
Westbeth Painters Space, New York
P.S. 122, New York
Club 57, New York
1978
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, CT
Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York City
Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York City
Citygardens, St. Louis, Missouri
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Emily Fisher Landau Foundation, New York City
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, California
Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida
The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut
The Denver Art Museum, Colorado
The John and Mildred Putnam Sculpture Collection: Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Albertina Collection, Vienna, Austria
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Austria
Palais Razumovsky Collection, Vienna, Austria
Verbeke Foundation, Stekene, Belgium
CAPC Musee de l’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Eglise St Eustache, Paris, France
Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Nice, France
Musee de l’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm, Germany
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Marx Collection, Berlin, Germany
Neues Museum Weimar, Germany
ZKM/Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Holland
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Ludwig Collection, Budapest, Hungary
François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden
Fondation Edelman, Lausanne, Switzerland
HausBill, Zumikon, Switzerland
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Benesse House, Naoshima, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Nakamura Keith Haring Collection, Kobuchizawa, Japan
The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
