short biography

Jean-Michel Basquiat (born 1960, Brooklyn / NY, born 1988 New York City) was a painter, draftsman, graffiti artist and the first African-American artist to become a star. He worked with Andy Warhol and Francesco Clemente.

Graffiti, painting, collages, poetry
Combination of pictographs, comics and African ciphers

http://basquiat.com http://www.gagosian.com/artists/jean-michel-basquiat/

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collection/s

Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston Centre Pompidou Paris Collection Lambert, Avignon ° Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia Everson Museum of Art Frac Picardie, Amiens Fukuoka Art Museum Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona Ghisla Art Collection, Locarno Guggenheim Bilbao Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin High Museum of Art, Atlanta ° Ludwig Forum, Aachen Ludwig Museum St. Petersburg MAC Musée d´Art Contemporain, Marseille . MACBA Barcelona MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Menil Collection, Houston Modern, Fort Worth Museu Berardo, Lisbon Museum Brandhorst, München Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University REINKINGPROJEKTE Hamburg RUBELL MUSEUM Miami Staatliche Museen zu Berlin State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg / RUS ° The Broad, Los Angeles Vancouver Art Gallery Whitney Museum, New York kunsthalle weishaupt, Ulm
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galleries

Cardi, Milan Gagosian Gallery Athens Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills Gagosian Gallery Geneva Gagosian Gallery London Gagosian Gallery New York Gagosian Gallery Paris Gagosian Gallery Rome IKON Ltd, Santa Monica Jeffrey Deitch, New York NAHMAD CONTEMPORARY New York Natalie Seroussi, Paris Opera Gallery, Dubai ° Opera Gallery, London Pieters Galleries Sho, Tokyo Terminus, München Van De Weghe Fine Art, New York Vedovi Gallery, Brussels VITO SCHNABEL PROJECTS New York Vonderbank Hamburg Yoshii Gallery, New York
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  • 21. May 24. Sep
    Around 1984 MoMA PS1, Long Island City
  • 16. Mar 12. Sep
    Making Choices MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York