Keith Haring

Liberating the Soul: Keith Haring’s Paintings

September 18 November 1, 2025

Opening Reception: September 18, 6–8pm

New York: 24th Street

Capturing Haring’s enduring concerns for global harmony, accessible healthcare amid the AIDS crisis, and the role of art as an expression of joy and communion, the exhibition marks the first time in ten years that Gladstone has dedicated a show exclusively to Haring’s canvases and painted tarps. Liberating the Soul: Keith Haring’s Paintings will be on view September 18 through November 1 at the gallery’s 24th Street location in New York.

Work

Keith Haring

Untitled, 1989
Acrylic and enamel on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)

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.

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