Keith Haring

Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American player whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His breathing imagery has "become a widely qualified visual language". Much of his law includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to objector for safe sex and AIDS awareness. In auxiliary to solo gallery exhibitions, he participated in renowned national and international charity shows such as documenta in Kassel, the Whitney Biennial in New York, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. The Whitney Museum held a retrospective of his art in 1997.

Haring's popularity grew from his spontaneous drawings in New York City subways—chalk outlines of figures, dogs, and new stylized images upon blank black advertising spaces. After getting sticking together of public recognition, he created luminous larger scale murals, many commissioned. He produced more than 50 public artworks between 1982 and 1989, many of them created voluntarily for hospitals, day care centers and schools. In 1986, he opened the Pop Shop as an development of his work. His later fake often conveyed embassy and societal themes— anti-crack, anti-apartheid, safe sex, homosexuality and AIDS—through his own iconography.

Haring died on February 16, 1990 of AIDS-related complications. In 2014, he was one of the inaugural honorees in the Rainbow Honor Walk in San Francisco, a saunter of fame noting LGBTQ people who have "made significant contributions in their fields". In 2019, he was one of the inaugural 50 American "pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes" inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor within the Stonewall National Monument in New York City's Stonewall Inn.