Forgotten Queer Keith Haring

Moved to New York City in 1978 to study painting at the School of Visual Arts Started his career as a graffiti artist in subway stations using white chaulk on black, unused advertisement boards. 1980: He used New York lamp posts to post graphic letter messages around the city. “Regan Slain By Hero Cop” “Pope killed for Freed Hostage” 1980: Participated in The Times Square Show with one of his earliest projects. He altered a banner advertisement above a subway entrance in Times Square that showed a female embracing a male’s legs, blacking out the first letter of the clothing brand Cardon, to read Hardon. 1980: began organizing exhibitions at Club 57 which were filmed by close friend, photographer Tseng Kwong Chi. 1981: First solo exhibition at Westbath Painters Space in the West Village Later that year, he had a solo exhibition at the Hal Bromm Gallery in Tribecca 1982 to 1986: His career started to take off HIs work appeared in Times Square, computer animated, (probably some of the first of it’s kind) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/forgotten-queers--6719466/support. Please follow me on Facebook, BlueSky,TikToc,Twitter at Gary Thoren. We must never forget our Forgotten Queers