Liberating the Soul: Keith Haring’s Paintings
September 18 — November 1, 2025
Opening Reception: September 18, 6–8pm
New York: 24th Street
Produced towards the end of the artist’s life, the works capture Haring’s abiding concerns for global harmony, accessible healthcare in the face of the AIDS crisis, and the preeminence of art for expressions of joy and communion. Marking the first time in ten years that Gladstone has focused exclusively on Haring ’s canvas works and painted tarps, Liberating the Soul: Keith Haring’s Paintings is on view September 18 through November 1 at the gallery’s 24th Street location in New York.
About
Keith Haring Self-portrait wearing glasses painted by Kenny Scharf, Polaroid, circa 1980.
© Keith Haring Foundation.
Keith Haring was born on May 4, 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania and died at the age of thirty-one of AIDS-related illnesses in New York City in 1990. Since his death, his work has been the subject of major institutional solo exhibitions around the world, including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Broad, Los Angeles; Tate Liverpool; the Albertina Museum, Vienna; Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; Kunsthal Rotterdam. In 1994, the Castello di Rivoli hosted a major solo exhibition of Haring’s work, and in 1997, the Whitney Museum of American Art staged a retrospective of Haring’s work that traveled internationally. In 2012, “Keith Haring: 1978-1982”, co-organized in 2010 by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, traveled to the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Haring’s work is in major private and public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; The Bass Museum, Miami; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
