Keith Haring
Keith Haring
1958–1990
American artist and social activist whose distinctive outline figures express universal concepts of birth, sex, love and joy.
Keith Haring (1958–1990) was an American artist, political activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s. By expressing universal concepts of birth, death, love, sex and war, and explicitly publicizing the issue of AIDS, his imagery has become a widely recognized visual language of the 20th century.