Keith Haring
Keith Haring
May 4 — July 1, 2011
New York: 21st Street
Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce our first exhibition of works by Keith Haring. In 1982, Barbara Gladstone commissioned Haring to make a series of lithographs that were the first prints ever made by the artist; therefore, it is with great pleasure that we present this exhibition. Long recognized as a leading figure in the energetic and innovative downtown culture of New York in the 1980s, this brilliantly inventive and prolific artist consistently forged new creative territories throughout his life and work that profoundly reflected his deep insight into the cultural zeitgeist of his day.
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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.
