Haring, Keith

Haring, Keith
born May 4, 1958, Reading, Pa., U.S.
died Feb. 16, 1990, New York, N.Y.

U.S. painter and draftsman.

He studied at New York City's School of Visual Arts and developed a unique style inspired by graffiti, cartoons, and comic strips, which he displayed in works drawn clandestinely at night on subway station walls around the city. He also created paintings, drawings, and prints in a graffiti style, filling the works from edge to edge using signs, abstract symbols, and human and animal figures writhing in a spaceless, airless design. In the 1980s he executed murals in New York and exhibited internationally, achieving great commercial success.

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▪ American artist
born May 4, 1958, Reading, Pa., U.S.
died Feb. 16, 1990, New York, N.Y.

      American graphic artist and designer who popularized some of the strategies and impulses of graffiti art.

      After a brief period studying at the Ivy School of Art in Pittsburgh, Haring moved to New York City in 1978 to attend the School of Visual Arts. With fellow artists Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat (Basquiat, Jean-Michel), Haring immersed himself in the punk clubs and street art scene of New York. In 1981 he began drawing graffiti—unauthorized chalk drawings on blank black advertising panels—in the New York subways. These would eventually number in the thousands, and they quickly created a popular following for his lively figural and patterned imagery and his cheekily outlaw activity. Haring shared few of the “tagging” tactics of urban graffitists, being drawn instead to the possibilities of a new public and vernacular kind of signage.

      He began making large outdoor murals, eventually executing them in Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, Melbourne, Chicago, Atlanta, and elsewhere, often assisted by scores of children. Haring's ebullient personality, infectious sense of play, and universally understood hieroglyphic style brought him attention from the mainstream press and transferred easily into his work in music videos and fashion design. In 1986 Haring opened a store called the Pop Shop in New York City, where he marketed products that ranged from T-shirts and pin-on buttons to original prints. He opened a Tokyo branch of the shop in 1988.

      Haring was socially conscious, and his murals often reflected his position on social issues. He sought to raise awareness of AIDS and fought against the proliferation of illegal drugs. He died of complications of AIDS at age 31.

Additional Reading
Exhibition catalogues include Illinois State University, University Galleries, Keith Haring: Future Primeval (1990); Germano Celant (ed.), Keith Haring (1992); Elisabeth Sussman, Keith Haring (1997); and Götz Adriani (ed.), Keith Haring: Heaven and Hell (2001; originally published in German, 2001). John Gruen, Keith Haring: The Authorized Biography (1991); and Alexandra Kolossa, Keith Haring, 1958–1990: A Life for Art (2004), are among the biographies.

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