Nasce a Reading, in Pennsylvania nel 1958. Frequenta per due semestri l’Ivy School of Professional Art di Pittsburgh, città in cui tiene la sua prima personale nel 1978. Nello stesso anno entra alla School of Visual Arts di New York (SVA) e si inserisce nell’ambiente street art della città attraverso i suoi celebri graffiti metropolitani, frequentando tra gli altri Kenny Scharf e Jean-Michel Basquiat e subendo l’influenza di A. Warhol, J. Dubuffet, P. Alechinsky e altri. Come studente della SVA, Haring sperimenta performance, video, installazione e collage, mantenendo sempre una forte dedizione al disegno, improntato a un tipo singolare di espressione grafica basato sul primato della linea. Tra il 1982 e il 1989 realizza più di cinquanta opere pubbliche sparse in tutto il mondo, molte delle quali realizzate a scopo benefico. Nel 1988 gli viene diagnosticato l’Aids e l’anno successivo viene fondata la Keith Haring Foundation.
SELEZIONE ESPOSIZIONI PERSONALI:
1978
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
1980
New York,
Club 57
New York,
Westbeth Painters Space
1981
New York, Hal Bromm Gallery
1982
Rotterdam,
Rotterdam Arts Council
New York,
Tony Shafrazi Gallery
1983
New York,
Fun Gallery
Napoli,
Galleria Lucio Amelio
Londra,
Robert Fraser Gallery
1984
Colonia,
Paul Maenz Gallery
Milano,
Galleria Salvatore Ala, Keith Haring:
Milan 1984
New York,
Paradise Garage
Basilea,
Galerie Courinne Hummel
1985
Monaco,
Schellmann & Kluser
New York,
Leo Castelli Gallery
Bordeaux,
Museum of Contemporary Art
1986
Parigi,
Galerie Daniel Templon
Amsterdam,
Stedelijk Museum
Stamford,
Whitney Museum of American Art, Art in
the Park
1987
Losanna,
Galerie Rivolta
Antwerp,
Gallery 121
1988
Düsseldorf,
Hans Mayer Gallery
New York,
Tony Shafrazi Gallery
1989
Düsseldorf,
Galerie Hete Hunermann
Antwerp,
Gallery 121
1990
Parigi,
Galerie La Poche
New York,
Queens Museum, Keith Haring: Future
Primeval
Ginevra, Gallery
56
1991
Normal,
University Galleries (itinerante), Keith
Haring: Future Primeval
Phoenix,
Phoenix Art Museum (itinerante), Haring,
Disney, Warhol
1992
Budapest,
Gallery 56
New York,
Tony Shafrazi Gallery
1993
New York,
Queens Museum
Basilea,
Galerie Littmann (itinerante), Complete
Editions on Paper
Tokyo,
Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Keith Haring: A
Retrospective
Berlino,
Michael Fuchs Gallery
1994
Rivoli,
Castello di Rivoli (itinerante), Keith
Haring
Hiroshima,
Need Venue (itinerante), Complete Editions
on Paper
1995
Madrid,
Fundacion La Caixa; Vienna, Kunsthaus Wien, Keith
Haring: A Retrospective
New York,
Andre Emmerich Gallery, Keith Haring,
Works on Paper 1989
Allentown,
Allentown Art Museum, Keith Haring:
Family and Friends Collect
1996
Kassel, Bruderkirche
and Museum Fridericianum, The 10
Commandments
Sydney,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Keith Haring:
A Retrospective
1997
New York,
Whitney Museum of American Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Keith Haring: A Retrospective
Colonia,
Kunsthalle (itinerante), Complete
Editions on Paper
1998
Singapore,
Wetterling Teo Gallery
Miami,
Museum of Contemporary Art (itinerante), Keith
Haring: A Retrospective
Stoccolma,
Wetterling Gallery
1999
Kyoto, Eki
Museum (itinerante), Keith Haring
Los Angeles,
Pacific Design Center; Chicago, Museum of Science and Industry, Keith Haring Sculptures
Wellington,
City Gallery, Keith Haring: A
Retrospective
Pisa,
Palazzo Lanfranchi, Keith Haring in Pisa
Parigi,
Musee Maillol, Keith Haring
2000
New York,
School of Visual Arts, Keith Haring: the
SVA Years
Tokyo,
Isetan Museum (itinerante), Keith Haring
Roma,
Chiostro del Bramante
2001
Karlsruhe, Museum fur Neue Kunst/ZKM, Keith Haring: Heaven and Hell
2002
Monaco, Versicherungskammer
Bayern, Keith Haring: Short Message.
Posters 1982-1990
Rotterdam,
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Keith
Haring: Heaven and Hell
2003
Amburgo,
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe (itinerante), Keith
Haring: Short Message. Posters 1982 – 1990
Roma,
Accademia Americana, Four Sculptures
2004
Rio de
Janeiro, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (itinerante), Keith Haring
New York,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Keith
Haring: New Wave Aztec
2005
New York,
Deitch Projects, Keith Haring Sculptures
Madrid,
Fundacion ICO, Keith Haring: Urban Memory
Milano, La
Triennale di Milano, The Keith Haring
Show
Madrid,
Fundacion Canal, Editions on Paper
2006
Tampa, Tampa
Museum of Art, Keith Haring: Art and
Commerce
Le Thor,
Poppy & Pierre Salinger Foundation, Keith
Haring: Monumental Sculptures
Gateshead,
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Keith
Haring – Early Drawings
2007
Koblenz, Ludwigmuseum, Keith Haring: Life as a Drawing
2008
Lione,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Keith Haring
retrospective
Budapest,
Ludwigmuseum
Palm
Springs, Palm Springs Art Museum, Against
All Odds: Keith Haring in the Rubell Family Collection
2009
Ulm,
Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Keith Haring
Mons, Musee
des Beaux-Arts, The Keith Haring Show
2010
Villeurbanne,
Institut d’Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne
Rio de
Janeiro, Caixa Cultural, Keith Haring
Editions on Paper
New York, Tony
Shafrazi Gallery, Keith Haring: 20th
Anniversary
2011
Cincinnati,
Contemporary Arts Center, Keith Haring
1978-1982
Parigi,
Musee en Herbe, The Hieroglyphics of
Keith Haring
2012
New York,
The Brooklyn Museum, Keith Haring: 1978 –
1982
Bruxelles,
Gladstone Gallery, Keith Haring
2013
Yamanashi,
Nakamura Museum, Keith Haring and the Pop
World: Retrospect
Parigi,
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Keith
Haring: The Political Line
2014
San
Francisco, De Young, Keith Haring: The
Political Line
Parigi,
Galerie Laurent Strouk, Keith Haring
2015
Taipei,
National Museum of History, Keith Haring:
Multiplexism
Rotterdam,
Kunsthal Rotterdam, Keith Haring: The
Political Line
New York,
Pace Prints, Keith Haring
2017
Amburgo,
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Keith
Haring. Posters
Milano,
Palazzo Reale, Keith Haring: About Art
2018
Vienna,
Albertina, Keith Haring. The Alphabet
Chicago,
Chicago Cultural center, Keith Haring:
the Chicago Mural
SELEZIONE ESPOSIZIONI COLLETTIVE:
1980
New York,
The New Museum, Events: Fashion Moda
New York, Times Square Show
1981
New York, MoMA P.S.1. (itinerante), New York/New Wave
1982
New York,
Tony Shafrazi Gallery (itinerante), Young
Americans
Indianapolis,
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Painting
& Sculpture Today
Kassel, Documenta
Londra,
Institute of Contemporary Art, Urban
Kisses
New York,
Queens Museum, The U.F.O. Show
New York,
Marlborough Gallery, The Pressure to
Paint
1983
Philadelphia,
institute of Contemporary Art; Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Centre fro the Arts, Currents
Boston,
Institute of Contemporary Art, Terrae
Motus
Brasil, Bienal de Sao Paulo
Lucerna,
Kunstmuseum, Back to the U.S.A.
New York,
Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial
1983
1984
Venezia, Biennale di Venezia
Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, New
Attitudes: Paris/New York
San
Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Biennial III – The Human Condition
1985
Parigi,
Grand Palais, La Biennale de Paris
Humblebaek,
Louisiana Museum, Homo Decorans
1986
New York,
Queens Museum, Television’s Impact of
Contemporary Art
L’Avana, Havana Biennial
New York,
Whitney Museum of American Art, Sacred
Images in Secular Art
1987
Parigi,
Centre Georges Pompidou, L’Epoque, La
Mode, La Morale, La Passion
Münster,
Westfalisches Landesmuseum, Sculpture Project
Londra,
Institute of Contemporary Art, Comic
Iconoclasm
Los Angeles,
Los Angeles County Musuem of Art, Avant-Garde
in the Eighties
1988
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Committed to Print
1991
Basilea,
Klaus Littmann Gallery, Hommage a Jean
Tinguely
New York,
Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial
1992
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Allegories of Modernism
1993
Venezia,
Peggy Guggenheim Museum; New York, Guggenheim Museum, Art Against AIDS
Berlino,
Martin Gropius Bau, American Art in The
Twentieth century: Painting and Sculpture
1994
Cleveland,
Cleveland Center for contemporary Art, Outside
the Frame
Tampa, Tampa
Museum of Art, New York Realism Past and
Present
1995
Miami, The
Bass Museum of Art, Recent 20th Century
Acquisitions
Colonia,
Museum Ludwig, Unser Jahrhundert:
Menschenbilder – Bilderwelten
1996
Parigi,
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Private
Passions
New York,
The Museum of Modern Art, Thinking Print:
Books to Billboards, 1980-95
1997
Los Angeles,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, End of
the Century: Prints Since 1970 From the Collection
Bonn,
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Multiple Identity:
Amerikanische Kunst 1975-1995 Aus Dem Whitney Museum of American Art
Napoli,
Museo di Castelnuovo; Roma, Chiostro del Bramante, American Graffiti
1998
Minneapolis,
Walker Art Center, Art Performs Life
Chicago, Art
Institute of Chicago, Concept/Image/Object
New Orleans,
Contemporary Arts Center, The Prophecy of
Pop
1999
New York,
Whitney Museum of Art, The American
Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000
New York,
Constume Institute – Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rock Style
2000
Rivoli,
Castello di Rivoli, DIRE AIDS: Art in the
Age of AIDS
New York,
P.S.1., Around 1984: A Look at Art in the
Eighties
2001
New York,
Bronx Museum of the Arts, One Planet
Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art
Venezia, Biennale di Venezia
Miami,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Mythic
Proportions: Painting in the 1980s
Vienna,
Kunsthalle Wien, Tele(visions)
2002
Kochi, The
Museum of Art, New Painting
Denver,
Museum of Contemporary Art, PopJock:
Warhol-Murakami
Stoccolma,
Liljevalchs Konsthall, My Marilyn
Karlsruhe,
Museum fur Neue Kunst/ZKM, Von Zero bis
2002
2003
L’Avana,
National Museum of Fine Arts, From
Picasso to Keith Haring
Sydney,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Parthenogenesis
2004
New York,
New Museum of Contemporary Art, East
Village USA
Salisburgo,
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, A
Collection’s Vision
Roma,
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rock 50
Rovereto,
Mart – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di trento e Rovereto, Beauty and the Beast: The Magic of the
Instinctual in Art
Parigi,
Musee du Luxembourg; Firenze, Galleria degli Uffizi, Moi! Self-Portraits of the 20th Century
2005
Nagasaki,
Nagasaki Prefectural Museum (itinerante), Picturing
America: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art
Düsseldorf,
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Daumen Kino: The
Flip Book Show
2006
Vienna,
Albertina Museum, Mozart: Experimentation
and Enlightenment in Late 18th Century Vienna
Venezia,
Palazzo Grassi, Where are we going?
Berlino,
Nationalgalerie, Weltsprache Abstraktion:
Gestalt, Magie, Zeichen
2007
Beijing,
National Museum of China (itinerante), Art
in America: 300 Years of Innavation
Londra,
Barbican Art Gallery, Panic Attack! Art
in the Punk Years
Boston,
Museum of Fine Arts, War & Discontent
2008
Ulm,
Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Grosse Amerikaner
Colonia,
Kathe Kollwitz Museum, Artists Intervene
– Politically Committed Poster Art from Picasso to the Present Day
2009
San Pietroburgo, Museum of Fine Arts, Andy
Warhol Portfolios: Life and Legends
Parigi, Fondation
Cartier, Born in the Street: Graffiti
Londra, Tate
Modern, Pop Life: Art in a Material World
Roma, Museo
d’Arte Contemporanea, Apocalypse Wow! Pop
Surrealism, Neo Pop, Urban Art
2010
New York,
The New Museum, Brion Gysin: Dream
Machine
Hong Kong, Fabrik
Gallery, In the name of Pop: Warhol,
Haring, Koons in the 80s
Vienna,
Kunsthalle Wien, The Street as Studio
Amburgo,
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Pop Life: Art in a
Material Wordl
2011
Nizza, Musee
d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Figure
libre
New York,
Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Art
from the Collection
Los Angeles,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Art in the
Streets
Amburgo,
Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe, Fantasy
comes to Power: Politics of Artist’s Posters
2012
Francoforte,
Museum fur Moderne Kunst (itinerante), Warhol:
Headlines
Madrid,
Fundacion Banco Santander, Paintings from
the Rubell Family Collection
Chicago,
Museum of Contemporary Art (itinerante), This
Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980’s
New York,
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, We the People
2013
Stoccarda, Staatsgalerie, Op Und Pop: Experimente Amerikanischer Kunstler AB 1960
2014
Stoccolma,
Dansenshus, Strut Your Stuff
Amsterdam,
Stedelijk Museum, Bad Thoughts:
Collection Martijn and Jeannette Sanders
Washington
D.C., Goethe Institut, The Wall in Our
Heads
2015
Baden-Baden,
Staatliche Kunsthalle, After an Early
Death
Londra,
Saatchi Gallery, Post Pop: East Meets
West
New York,
Whitney Museum of American Art, America
is Hard to See
2016
New York,
Bronx Museum of The Arts, Art AIDS
America
Jacksonville,
Museum of Contemporary Art, In living
color: Andy Warhol and Contemporary Printmaking
2017
Ulm, Ulmer
Museum, Siftung Sammlung Kurt Fried Kunst
erleben
Parigi,
Musee d’Art Moderne, Medusa: Jewellery
& Taboos
2018
Berlino,
Hamburger Banhof, Hello World. Revising a
Collection
New York,
Museum of the City of New York, Art in
the Open: Fifty Years of Publica Art in New York
New York,
Museum of Modern Art, Club 57: Film,
Performance, and Art in the east Village, 1978-1983
