Keith Haring

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Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art and graffiti-like drawings gained traction in New York City subways, surpassing figures, dogs, and other stylized black advertisement space backgrounds.

Since public recognition, he created larger scale works, like vibrant murals, which many of which were licensed.

His imagery has "becomed a well-known visual language."

His later work often dealt with political and socioeconomic issues, especially homosexuality and AIDS, through his own iconography.

He did this by using sexual images to promote safe sex and AIDS awareness.

Early life and education: 1958–1979

Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on May 4, 1958. Allen Haring, an engineer and amateur cartoonist, was raised in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, by his mother, Joan Haring, and his father, Allen Haring. Kay, Karen, and Kristen were his three younger sisters. He began to enjoy art at a young age, and spent time with his father, who created imaginative drawings. In The Bugs Bunny Show, his early influences included Walt Disney cartoons, Dr. Seuss, Charles Schulz, and the Looney Tunes characters.

The United Church of Christ was attended by Haring's family. He was involved with the Jesus Movement in his early teen years. He later hitchhiked around the country, selling T-shirts he made featuring the Grateful Dead and anti-Nixon designs. In 1976, he graduated from Kutztown Area High School. He studied commercial art from 1976 to 1978 at Pittsburgh's Ivy School of Professional Art, but after reading Robert Henri's book The Art Spirit (1923), he was inspired to focus on his own work.

Haring served as a groundskeeper at the Pittsburgh Center for the Performing Arts, and he was able to investigate Jean Dubuffet, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Tobey's work. Around this period, he was strongly influenced by a 1977 retrospective of Pierre Alechinsky's work as well as a 1978 lecture by sculptor Christo. He was encouraged to create large images that featured writing and characters from Alechinsky's work. Haring was introduced to ways of incorporating the public into his art. In 1978, his first significant one-man exhibition at the Center for the Performing Arts in Pittsburgh.

Haring studied painting at the School of Visual Arts in 1978 on the Lower East Side of New York. During this time at the danceteria, he also worked as a busboy. Bill Beckley and his classmates explored semiotics and performance art, as well as experiments with video and performance art. Author William Burroughs was also heavily influenced in Haring's art.

"I am getting so much more aware of movement," Haring wrote in his journal in 1978. When a painting becomes a show, the importance of movement is heightened. The result (the act of painting) is now as important as the resulting painting."

A Haring painting from 1979 was discovered in an area of the American Textile Building in New York City's TriBeCa neighborhood.

Haring first attracted national notice for his graffiti art in subways, where he made white chalk drawings on black, unused advertisement backboards in the stations. He considered the subways to be his "laboratory," a place where he could experiment and create his art, and saw the black advertisement paper as a free space and "the perfect spot to draw." The Radiant Baby, a crawling infant with emitting rays of light, became his most well-known symbol. He used it to indicate his apprenticeship as a subway artist. In his work and iconography, symbols and images (such as barking dogs, flying saucers, and large hearts) became common. Haring's career has grown in importance, and he has become much more recognizable.

Haring's lettering and words were inspired by Burroughs' writings and Brion Gysin's. He made headlines from word juxtaposition and attached hundreds of thousands of lamps to lampposts around Manhattan in 1980. These included terms like "Reagan Slain by Hero Cop" and "Pope Killed for Freed Hostage." Haring modified a banner advertisement above a subway entrance in Times Square in 2011 that featured a female embracing a male's legs, blacking-out the first letter so that it read "hardón" rather than "Chardón," a French clothing brand. [1] He later used other forms of commercial communication to promote his ideas and messages. This included mass producing buttons and magnets to hand out as well as working on top of subway advertisements.

Haring started organising exhibitions at Club 57, which were shot by his close friend and photographer Tseng Kwong Chi. Haring's first solo exhibition at Westbeth Painters Space in the West Village in February 1981. He had a solo exhibition at the Hal Bromm Gallery in Tribeca in November 1981.

Haring was the first of twelve artists selected by the Public Art Fund in January 1982 to display work on the computer-animated Spectacolor billboard in Times Square. Haring's first major outdoor mural on the Lower East Side of Houston was created this summer. He used lines to express energy and movement in his paintings. Haring will often work quickly, aiming to produce as much work as possible—sometimes finishing as many as 40 paintings in a day. Untitled (1982), one of his drawings, depicts two figures with a dazzling heart-love motif, which critics have described as a leap in homosexuality and a significant cultural statement.

Haring was born in 1982 and was included in documenta 7 in Kassel, where his works were on view alongside Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Andy Warhol. In October 1982, he held an exhibition at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery with his collaborator graffiti artist Angel "LA II" Ortiz. He appeared in many group shows, including Fast at the Alexander Milliken Gallery in New York, earlier this year.

Haring held a solo show at the Fun Gallery in New York's East Village in February 1983. Haring was also involved in the So Paulo Biennale in Brazil and the Whitney Biennial in New York that year. Haring was hired to paint a mural called Construction Fence at the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee in April 1983. Elio Fiorucci invited Haring to Milan in October 1983 to paint the walls of his Fiorucci store. Although Haring was in London for the opening of his exhibition at the Robert Fraser Gallery in October 1983, he met and began collaborating with choreographer Bill T. Jones. From head to toe, Haring used Jones' body to paint.

In 1984, Haring and Angel "LA II" Ortiz created a T-shirt for Willi Smith and Laurie Mallet's clothing company WilliWear Productions. Haring has also collaborated with fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. After Haring was profiled in Paper magazine, Westwood reached out to editor-in-chief Kim Hastreiter to arrange a meeting. For her Fall/Winter 1983-84 Witches collection, Haring provided Westwood with two large sheets of drawings and converted them into textiles. Madonna of Haring wore a skirt from the collection, most notably in the music video for her 1984 single "Borderline".

Haring was included in the Venice Biennale in 1984. He was encouraged to create temporary murals at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. At Collingwood Technical College in Melbourne, Keith Haring Mural was also painted. Haring created murals at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Rio de Janeiro last year.

The media covered Haring's ascension to international prominence. His art appeared in the October 1984 issue of Newsweek, and he was also featured in the February 1984 issue of Vanity Fair. He created the stage set for Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane's Secret Pastures at the Brooklyn Academy of Music later this year. The United Nations Stamp and a companioning limited edition lithograph were ordered by Haring to print a first day cover the United Nations stamp and an accompanying limited edition lithograph to commemorate 1985 as International Youth Year. For various cultural establishments and nightclubs, like the Palladium in Manhattan, he created MTV set decorations and painted murals. Haring painted the walls of the Grande Halle de la Villette in March 1985 for the Biennale de Paris. He made a painting for the Live Aid concert at J.F.K. in July 1985. In Philadelphia, the stadium was named after a Wizard of Philadelphia. In addition, he created a car that was owned by art dealer Max Protetch and sold it for $1000, which was donated to African famine relief. Haring continued to be politically active in 1985, designing Free South Africa posters and a poster for the 1986 Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament.

Haring had his first solo museum exhibit at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1986 and created a mural. In 1986, Haring also created public murals in Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center's lobby and ambulatory care section on Flushing Avenue in Brooklyn.

Haring created CityKids Speak on Liberty in conjunction with the CityKids Foundation in June 1986 to commemorate the Statue of Liberty's centennial of the Statue of Liberty's arrival in the United States. He created his Crack is Wack mural in East Harlem later this month, as seen from New York's FDR Drive. It was initially thought of as vandalism by the New York Police Department and Haring was arrested. However, Haring was released on a lesser charge after local media outlets picked up the news. Haring's original work was vandalized while in jail. This mural is a reminder of Haring's use of consciousness rather than consumerism, as "Crack Is Wack" rather than "Coke is it." In October 1986, he created a new version of the mural on the same wall.

Haring created a mural on the Berlin Wall for the Checkpoint Charlie Museum on October 23, 1986. The mural, which was 300 meters (980 ft) long, depicted red and black human figures against a yellow background. The colors were a symbol of the German flag and symbolid the hope of peace between East and West Germany.

Haring began working with Grace Jones, whom he had met through Andy Warhol in 1984 for an interview newspaper shoot. Haring bodied Jones for her music film "I'm Not Perfect" (1986) and live performances at the Paradise Garage. In the 1986 film Vamp, Jones portrayed Katrina the Queen of The Vampires. Haring worked with David Spada, a jewelry designer, to create the sculptural adornments for Jones.

In addition, Haring illustrated vinyl covers for various artists, including David Bowie's "Without You" (1983), N.Y.C. Peech Boys' Life Is Something Special (1983), Malcolm McLaren's "Duck For The Oyster" (1983), and Sylvester's "Somebody Like You" (1986).

Pop Shop opened in Soho in April 1986, selling shirts, posters, and other items displaying Haring's work. Haring's work was now available for purchase at fair rates. Haring has been chastised for commercializing his work by several people. "I might earn more money if I only painted a few things and jacked up the price," Haring said when asked about it. My store is a continuation of what I was doing in the subway stations, reducing the barriers between high and low art." After Haring's death, the Pop Shop remained open; funds were donated to the Keith Haring Foundation.

The Pop Shop was far from Haring's first attempt to make his work widely available. Haring made art in subways and on billboards throughout his career. His efforts to make his work more recognizable can also be seen in his figures' inability of identifying ages, races, or identities. His work began to reflect more socioeconomic, such as anti-Apartheid, HIV education, and the crack cocaine crisis, among other things.

Haring appeared in more than 100 solo and group shows and created more than 50 public artworks in scores of charities, hospitals, day care centers, and orphanages from 1982 to 1989. Haring was openly gay and used his work to campaign for safe sex. In 1988, he was diagnosed with AIDS in the fall. He used his images from the last two years of his life to talk about his illness and raise questions about AIDS.

Haring held exhibitions in Helsinki, Paris, and other places in 1987. During his stay in Paris for the tenth anniversary exhibition of American artists, Artists Georges Pompidou and his companion Juan Rivera painted the Tower mural on an 88-foot (27 meter) exterior stairwell at the Necker Children's Hospital. Haring created a mural at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, while in Belgium for his exhibition at Gallery 121.

Artist Roger Nellens had also invited Haring to paint a mural at his Casino Knokke last year. Haring stayed in Le Dragon, a massive-shaped guest house owned by Nellens that had been designed by artist Niki de Saint Phalle while working there. Haring painted a fresco mural along an interior balcony and stairway with the permission of both the designer and the owner.

Haring designed a carousel for André Heller's Luna Luna, a ephemeral amusement park in Hamburg from June to August 1987, with rides designed by renowned contemporary artists. Haring created a large mural at the Carmine Street Recreation Center's outdoor pool in the West Village in August 1987. At the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, he created a temporary mural, Detroit Notes, in September 1987. The work depicts a more nuanced period in Haring's style, in which Cranbrook Art Museum Director Andrew Blauvelt speculated foreshadowed the announcement of his AIDS diagnosis.

Haring designed the front cover of 1987's benefit album A Very Special Christmas and the Run-DMC single "Christmas In Hollis"; the proceeds went to the Special Olympics. A typical Haring figure holding a baby is included in the photograph for A Very Special Christmas compilation album. In modern rock holiday albums, it's called "Jesus iconography."

Haring created 'We the Youth' in a Philadelphia neighborhood to celebrate the United States Constitution's bicentennial. A new rowhome was never built and the lot became a park, and it was originally intended as a placeholder. In 2013, Haring's longest standing public mural at its original location was restored.

Haring was one of a select group of artists whose work appeared on the label of Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine in 1988. He went to Japan in January 1988 to open Pop Shop Tokyo; the summer of 1988 closed it down. Haring created a mural on the South Lawn for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll in April 1988, donating to Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C., later this summer. Haring's exhibition at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in December 1988, which he said was his most important show to date. Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat died before he had a chance to prove himself due to his health and the deaths of his companions Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Haring painted the Todos Juntos Paran SIDA mural in Barcelona's drug-infested Barrio Chino neighborhood in February 1989 to raise the alarm of the AIDS epidemic. Haring, a teacher named Irving Zucker, and a crowd of nearly 500 students, arrived in Grant Park in May 1989 to paint a 480-foot mural. Three other Haring murals appeared in Chicago at the same time: two at Rush University Medical Center and the other at Wells Community Academy High School. The latter was completed just days before Haring's arrival in Chicago as a sort of welcome. Haring provided the school with a layout for the mural, which was created by Tony Abboreno, an abstract artist, and Wells High School art students, but Haring gave it his final approval and signed it himself, according to Zucker.

The Center Show, an exhibition commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, was invited by the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in New York to create a site-specific work. In May 1989, he painted his Once Upon a Time... mural in the second floor men's bathroom. Haring sprayed his Tuttomondo mural on the back wall of the Sant'Antonio Abate church in Pisa in June 1989.

Haring criticized the avoidingance of social issues such as AIDS by creating a work called Rebel with Many Causes (1989) that revolves around the phrase "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil." Haring created a mural at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena for "A Day Without Art" during the last week of November 1989. On December 1, the mural was commemorated as part of the second annual AIDS Awareness Day. On December 1, World AIDS Day, he paid tribute to the mural by saying, "My life is my art, it's intertwined." When AIDS became a part of my life, it became a focus in my paintings. The more it affected my life, the more it affected my work." On December 2, Haring and photographer Herb Ritts led him to Atlanta for the opening of his dual show with photographer Herb Ritts at the Fay Gold Gallery in Pasadena. Haring exhibited a BMW Z1 in 1990 at the Hans Mayer Gallery in Düsseldorf. Keith Haring 1983, 1983, who was going to Paris for what would be his last exhibition, La Galerie de Poche, in January 1990.

Haring died of AIDS-related illness at his LaGuardia Place apartment in Greenwich Village on February 16, 1990. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in a field near Bowers, Pennsylvania, just south of his hometown of Kutztown. Haring appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's documentary film Silence = Death (1990) about gay artists in New York City, three months after his death. It was announced on May 4, his 32nd birthday.

Early work: 1980–1981

Haring first gained notoriety in subways with his graffiti art, where he made white chalk drawings on black, unused advertisement backboards in the stations. He considered the subways to be his "laboratory," a place where he could experiment and create his artwork, and thought of the black advertisement paper as a free space and "the perfect place to draw." The Radiant Baby, a crawling infant that emits rays of light, became his most well-known symbol. He used it as his mark to advertise his work as a subway artist. In his art and iconography, symbols and pictures (such as barking dogs, flying saucers, and large hearts) became common. Haring's works soon expanded as a result, and he became much more recognizable.

Haring's letters and words were inspired by Burroughs' writings and Brion Gysin. In 1980, he made headlines by comparing word and attached hundreds of hundreds of lamp-posts around Manhattan. These included words like "Reagan Slain by Hero Cop" and "Pope Killed for Freed Hostage." Haring also changed a banner advertisement above a subway entrance in Times Square this year, which featured a female embracing a male's legs, instead of "Chardón," a French clothing brand. [1] He later sold his work and messages through various avenues of commercial communication. This included buttons and magnets from handout and subway advertisements.

Haring began exhibiting exhibitions at Club 57, which were filmed by his close friend and photographer Tseng Kwong Chi. Haring's first solo exhibition at Westbeth Painters Space in the West Village in February 1981. He had a solo show at the Hal Bromm Gallery in Tribeca in November 1981.

Haring was the first of twelve artists selected by the Public Art Fund in January 1982 to display work on the computer-animated Spectacolor billboard in Times Square. On the Lower East Side of Houston, Haring created his first major outdoor mural that summer on the Houston Bowery Wall. He used lines in his paintings to convey energy and movement. Haring will often work quickly, aiming to produce as much work as possible, with some people completing as many as 40 paintings in a day. Untitled (1982), one of his drawings, depicts two figures with a radiant heart-love motif, which critics have described as both a braveness in homosexual love and a significant cultural statement.

Haring appeared in documenta 7 in Kassel, where his works were on view with Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Andy Warhol. In October 1982, he and his collaborator graffiti artist Angel "LA II" Ortiz had an exhibition at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery. He appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including Fast at the Alexander Milliken Gallery in New York, this year.

Haring had a solo exhibition at the Fun Gallery in downtown Manhattan in February 1983. Haring took part in the Só Paulo Biennale in Brazil and the Whitney Biennial in New York the previous year. Haring was hired by the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee in April 1983 to paint a mural, Construction Fence. Elio Fiorucci brought Haring to Milan in October 1983 to paint the walls of his Fiorucci store in Milan. Haring was in London for the opening of his exhibition at the Robert Fraser Gallery in October 1983, but he soon began collaborating with choreographer Bill T. Jones. Haring used Jones' body to paint from head to toe.

In 1984, Haring and Angel "LA II" Ortiz created a T-shirt for friends Willi Smith and Laurie Mallet's clothing company WilliWear Productions. Haring has also worked with fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. Westwood reached out to editor-in-chief Kim Hastreiter to schedule a meeting after Haring was profiled in Paper magazine. Haring supplied Westwood with two large sheets of drawings and converted them into textiles for her 1983-84 Witches collection. Madonna, Haring's niece, wore a skirt from the collection, most notably in the music video her 1984 single "Borderline."

Haring was included in the Venice Biennale in 1984. He was invited to create temporary murals at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Keith Haring Mural at Collingwood Technical College in Melbourne also painted the permanent Keith Haring Mural. Haring crafted murals at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Rio de Janeiro last year.

The media had covered Haring's rapid rise to international fame. His art appeared in the October 1984 issue of Newsweek, and he was a guest on the February 1984 issue of Vanity Fair. Later this year, he conceived the stage set for Bill T. Jones' and Arnie Zane's Mysterious Pastures at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Haring was asked by the United Nations to produce a first day stamp and a limited edition lithograph to commemorate 1985 as International Youth Year. MTV set decorations and painted murals for many cultural establishments and nightclubs, including the Palladium in Manhattan. For the Biennale de Paris, Haring painted the walls of the Grande Halle de la Villette in March 1985. He created a painting for the Live Aid concert in J.F.K. in July 1985. In Philadelphia, there is a stadium. In addition, he painted a car owned by artist Max Protetch and sold it for auction with proceeds donated to African famine relief. Haring continued to be politically active in 1985 by designing Free South Africa posters and making a poster for the 1986 Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament.

Haring held his first solo museum exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1986 and created a mural. Haring also created public murals in the Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center's lobby and ambulatory care section on Flushing Avenue in Brooklyn in 1986.

Haring created a 90-foot banner in conjunction with The CityKids Foundation in June 1986 to commemorate the Statue of Liberty's centennial arrival in the United States. He created his Crack is Wack mural in East Harlem later this month, and it's visible from New York's FDR Drive. The New York Police Department and Haring arrested it as vandalism, and Haring was jailed. But Haring was released on a lesser charge after local media outlets picked up the story. Haring's original work was vandalized while in jail. This mural is an example of Haring's use of consciousness raising rather than consumerism; rather than "Coke is it?" In October 1986, he created a new version of the mural on the same wall.

Haring created a mural on the Checkpoint Charlie Museum's Berlin Wall on October 23, 1986. The mural, which was 300 meters (980 ft), was about a black and white interlocking human figures against a yellow background. The colors were a symbol of the German flag and symbolised the hope of peace between East and West Germany.

Haring began working with Grace Jones, whom he had met through Andy Warhol in 1984 for an interview magazine shoot. Haring painted Jones' body for her music video "I'm Not Perfect" (1986) and live performances at the Paradise Garage. In the 1986 film Vamp, Jones also painted Jones for her role as Katrina the Queen of The Vampires. Haring collaborated with David Spada, a jewelry designer, to create the sculptural adornments for Jones.

In addition, Haring illustrated vinyl covers for various artists, including David Bowie's "Without You" (1983), N.Y.C. The Life Of Peech Boys Is Something Special (1983), Malcolm McLaren's "Duck For The Oyster" (1983), and Sylvester's "Someone Like You" (1986).

Pop Shop opened in Soho in 1986, selling shirts, posters, and other Haring-related merchandise. Haring's work was also available at affordable rates. Haring was chastised for commercializing his work by some. "I could make more money if I just painted a few things and jacked up the price," Haring said when asked about this. "My shop is an extension of what I was doing in the subway stations, reducing the barriers between high and low art." Following Haring's death, the Pop Shop remained open; proceeds went to the Keith Haring Foundation.

The Pop Shop was far from Haring's sole attempt to make his work more widely available. Haring created art in subways and on billboards throughout his career. His efforts to make his work more recognizable can also be seen in his figures' inability of identifying ages, races, or identities. His work began to reflect more socioeconomic and political themes, such as anti-Apartheid, AIDS education, and the crack cocaine crisis, as a result of Pop Shop's arrival.

Haring was included in more than 100 solo and group exhibitions and produced more than 50 public artworks in scores of charities, hospitals, day care centers, and orphanages from 1982 to 1989. Haring was openly gay and used his work to advocate for safe sex. In the fall of 1988, he was diagnosed with AIDS. He used his images from the last years of his life to chronicle his illness and raise anti-AIDS activism and education.

Haring had exhibitions in Helsinki, Paris, and other places in 1987. The Tower mural was created by artist Georges Pompidou, Haring, and his companion Juan Rivera during his stay in Paris for the 10th anniversary exhibition of American artists at the Center Georges Pompidou and his collaborator Juan Rivera. The Tower mural was installed on an 88-foot (27 m) exterior stairwell at the Necker Children's Hospital. Haring created a mural at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium, for his exhibition at Gallery 121.

Haring was also invited by artist Roger Nellens to paint a mural at his Casino Knokke in the same year. Haring stayed in Le Dragon, a massive guest house owned by Nellens that had been designed by artist Niki de Saint Phalle while working there. Haring created a fresco mural on an interior balcony and stairway with the permission of both the designer and the owner.

Haring created a carousel for André Heller's Luna Luna, an ephemeral amusement park in Hamburg from June to August 1987, with rides designed by renowned contemporary artists. Haring created a huge mural at the Carmine Street Recreation Center's outdoor pool in the West Village in August 1987. In September 1987, he created Detroit Notes, a temporary exhibition at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The work reveals a more mature period in Haring's style, which Cranbrook Art Museum Director Andrew Blauvelt speculated foreshadowing the reveal of his AIDS diagnosis.

Haring conceived the front page for the 1987 benefit album A Very Special Christmas and the Run-DMC single "Christmas In Hollis"; proceeds were donated to the Special Olympics. The photo for the A Very Special Christmas compilation album features a typical Haring figure holding a baby. In modern rock holiday albums, "Jesus iconography" is regarded as unusual.

Haring created 'We the Youth' in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Point Breeze in 1987 to celebrate the United States Constitution's bicentennial. A new rowhome was never built, and the lot became a park, with the intention of being a placeholder. The mural underwent significant upgrades in 2013 and is Haring's longest standing public mural at its original location.

Haring was one of a select group of artists whose work appeared on the label of Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine in 1988. He went to Japan in January 1988 to open Pop Shop Tokyo; the store was closed in 1988. Haring donated a mural on the South Lawn for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll in April 1988, but he donated the Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C. late in the summer, Haring traveled to Düsseldorf for a display of his paintings and sculptures at the Hans Mayer Gallery. Haring's exhibition at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in December 1988, which he said was his most important exhibit to date. He felt he had something to prove as a result of his health and the deaths of his colleagues Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Haring created the Todos Juntos Parar el SIDA mural in Barcelona's drug-infested Barrio Chino neighborhood in February 1989 to raise the SIDA virus's recognition. Haring and nearly 500 students from Chicago in May 1989, at the invitation of a teacher named Irving Zucker, Haring, visited Grant Park to create a 480-foot mural. Three other Haring murals appeared in Chicago at the same time: two at Rush University Medical Center and the other at Wells Community Academy High School. The former was completed just days before Haring's arrival in Chicago as a sort of welcome. Haring gave the school a design template for the mural, but Haring gave it his final permission and signed it by himself, according to Zucker.

Haring was invited by the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in New York to create a site-specific work for The Center Show, an exhibition commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. In May 1989, he painted his Once Upon a Time... mural in the second floor men's bathroom. Haring nannaded his Tuttomondo mural on the back wall of the Sant'Antonio Abate church in Pisa in June 1989.

Haring sluggish, see no evil, speak no evil, etc. Haring created a mural at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena for "A Day Without Art" during the last week of November 1989. On December 1, the mural was unveiled on the second annual AIDS Awareness Day in the United States. On December 1, World AIDS Day, he commemorated the mural, and told the Los Angeles Times: "My life is my art, it's intertwined." When AIDS became a part of my life, it became a focus in my paintings. The more it affected my life, the more it affected my career." On December 2 at the Fay Gold Gallery in Pasadena, Haring flies to Atlanta for the opening of his dual show with photographer Herb Ritts. Haring created a BMW Z1 at the Hans Mayer Gallery in Düsseldorf in 1990. Keith Haring 1983 at La Galerie de Poche in Paris was sent to Paris for what would be his last exhibition, Keith Haring 1983.

Haring died of AIDS-related diseases at his LaGuardia Place apartment in Greenwich Village on February 16, 1990. His ashes were scattered in a field near Bowers, Pennsylvania, just south of his hometown of Kutztown. Haring appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's documentary film Silence = Death (1990) about gay artists in New York City, fighting for the interests of people with AIDS three months after his death. It was announced on May 4, his 32nd birthday, which would have been his 32nd birthday.

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