JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

1960 Born: in Brooklyn, NY

1966 Became a Junior Member of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1977 Began spray painting cryptic aphorisms on subway trains and around lower Manhattan and signing them with the name SAMO© (Same Old Shit)

1978 Left home permanently and quit school just one year before graduating form high school

1983 Befriended by

1988 Died: in New York, NY

Selected Exhibitions

2010 Basquiat/Warhol , Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

2009 A Tribute To Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, , NY Your Gold Teeth III, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Sans—titre # 1 oeuvres de la Collection Lambert peintures des années 1970 - 1980, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Looking at Music: Side 2, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2008 Jean-Michel Basquiat works on paper, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, NY (solo) Jean-Michel Basquiat. Ahuyentando fantasmas, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain (solo)

2007 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galleria Davide Di Maggio, , Germany (solo)

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Jean-Michel Basquiat : Works on Paper , Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, NY (solo) Basquiat in Cotonou, Fondation Zinsou, Cotonou, Benin (solo)

2006 Basquiat heads, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, NY (solo) Basquiat 1960-1988 - Basquiat Retrospective, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China (solo) Jean-Michel Basquiat, Museo d´Arte Moderna, Lugano, Switzerland (solo) Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1981: The Studio of the Street, Deitch Projects - 76, Grand Street, New York, NY (solo) Basquiat - una antología para Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, Puerto Rico (solo)

2005 Jean Michel Basquiat, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, , Switzerland (solo) Jean Michel Basquiat, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo) Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX (solo) Jean-Michel Basquiat, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (solo) Jean-Michel Basquiat - In Word Only, Cheim & Read, New York, NY (solo)

2004 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico (solo) Jean-Michel Basquiat: An Intimate Portrait - Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA (solo)

2003 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Histoire d’une œuvre, Fondation Dina Vierny, Musée Maillol, , France (solo)

2002 Paintings by Jean-Michael Basquiat, Hamiltons Gallery, Londres, UK (solo) Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

2001 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany (solo)

2000 Jean-Michel Basquiat, MITTERRAND+CRAMER/FINE ART, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)

1999 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Stadtgalerie , Austria (solo)

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Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paintings & Works on Paper, Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna, Austria (solo) Jean-Michel Basquiat, Civico Museo Revoltella, Trieste, Italy (solo) Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Jean Michel Basquiat , Galleria Davide Di Maggio - Milano, Milan, Italy (solo) Jean-Michel Basquiat, Basquiat a Venezia, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (solo)

1998 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Obras sobre Papel, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (solo) Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pinturas/Obras sobre papeis, Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo, Brazil (solo) Jean-Michel Basquiat, , Los Angeles, CA (solo) Museu de Arte Moderna, Recife, Brazil Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo, Brazil Jean-Michel Basquiat - Temoignage 1977-1988, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France (solo)

1997 Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada Big Step, Inc. Osaka, Japan Mitsukochi Museum, Tokyo; MIMOCA, Marugame, Japan Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Taiwan Museum of Art, Taiwan Fondation Dina-Vierny, Musée Maillol, Paris, France Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1996 Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY; Serpentine Gallery, , UK Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil (solo) Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Blue Ribbon Paintings, Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL (solo) Two Cents, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA (solo) Two Cents, Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, NY (solo)

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Contemporary Art Series #7: Jean-Michel Basquiat - Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL (solo) Galeries Lucien Durand-Enrico Navarra, Paris, France Junta de Andalucia, Malaga, Spain The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, UK Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Quintana Gallery, Coral Gables, FL

1995 Center Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Mimami, FL; Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Univerity, New York, NY; The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN; University of South Florida Art Museum, Tampa, FL; Otis Gallery of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX

1994 Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY Mount Holyoke College of Art Museum, South Hadley, MA; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA; The studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL; COCA/Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

1993 Newport Harbour Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA FAE, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Pully-Lausanne, France Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Musee Galerie de la Seita, Paris, France Jean-Michel Basquiat, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (solo) Delta Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Alpha Cubic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Galerie Bruno Bischhofberger, Zurich, Switzerland

1992 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Menil Collection, Houston, TX Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY

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Galerie Eric van de Wegh, Brussels, Belgium Musee Cantini, Marseille, France

1991 P.S.Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Galerie de Poche, Paris, France

1990 Gallery le Gall Peyroulet, Paris, France Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris, France Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

1989 Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France Dau al Set, Galeria d’Art, Barcelona, Spain Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, , Austria

1988 Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA Gallery Schlesinger Limited, New York, NY Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France

1987 Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France (solo) Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Drawings, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria P.S.Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1986 Larry Gagosian, Los Angeles, CA Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Centre Culturel Francais d’Abidjan, Abidjan, Ivory Coast Galerie Delta, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany

1985 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland Jean Michel Basquiat / MATRIX 80, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkley, CA; Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA (solo)

1984 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY (solo) The Fruitmaker Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland ICA, London, UK Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Carpenter + Hochman gallery, Dallas, TX New Expressionists, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY Paintings and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Musuem of Art, Indianapolis, IN American Neo-Expressionists, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT New Art, Musee D’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada

1983 New York Now, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany; Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany; Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany From the Streets, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC Post Graffiti, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY Paintings, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum, New York, NY New Work, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY Intoxication, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY; Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY Back to the Usa, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland; Rheinisches Landmuseum, Bonn, germany; Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY Selected Works, Ulrike Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Mary Boone and her Artists, Seibu Museum, Tokyo Written Imagery Unleashed in the Twentieth Century, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY

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Food for the Soup Kitchens, Fashion Moda, Bronx, NY Contemporary Drawing, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX West Beach Café, Venice, CA Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1982 Emilio Mazzoli Gallery, Modena, Italy Mario Diacono Gallery, Rome, Italy Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY Blum/Helman Gallery, New York, NY Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland Fun Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Delta, Rotterdam, The Netherlands New New York, Florida State University Art Gallery, Tallahassee, FL; Metropolitan Museum and Art Centre, Coral Gables, FL Body Language – Current Issues in Figuration, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA Avantgarde and Transavantgarde ’68 to ’77’ Aurelian Walls, Rome, Italy Five Americans, Museu Civico, Modena, Italy Drawings/Vision: New York’, Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Works on Paper, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Fast, Alexander F Milliken Gallery, New York, NY Documneta 7, Kassel, West Germany The Expressionist Image: From Pollock to Today, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY The Pressure to Paint, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY

1981 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY Emilio Mazzoli Gallery, Modena, Italy New York, New Wave, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, NY

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MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York , NY Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Monica, CA Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao, Spain Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin, Germany Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelone, Spain Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Literature

2007 Jean-Michel Basquiat 1981 : the studio of the street. Milano : Charta ; New York : Deitch Projects, 2007

2006 Dubuffet, Basquiat : personal histories. New York : PaceWildenstein, 2006 (catalogue)

2003 Emmerling, Leonhard.Jean-Michel Basquiat 1960-1988. Cologne; London: Taschen, 2003

2001 Jean Michel Basquiat : paintings and works on paper : The Mugrabi Collection. Künzelsau : Museum Würth : Swiridoff Verlag, 2001

1997 Jean-Michel Basquiat : paintings and drawings 1980-1988. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1997 (catalogue)

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