Keith Haring

Keith Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on May 4, 1958, and died of AIDS-related causes on February 16, 1990. Working within the alternative art community that developed outside the gallery system in downtown New York, he made chalk drawings on unused black advertising panels in subway stations and went on to produce paintings, sculpture, murals, and public projects, using a vocabulary of radiating and crawling babies, barking dogs and dancing figures. He created more than fifty public murals between 1982 and 1989, addressed AIDS awareness, apartheid and literacy in his imagery, and took part in Documenta 7, the São Paulo Biennial and the Whitney Biennial.

See the Keith Haring subway drawings.