Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Keith Haring studied commercial art in Pittsburgh and at age 19 moved to New York, where studied at the School of Visual Arts. Achieved his first public attention drawing in the walls of subways. Soon his unique bold lines where exhibited in Club 57’s walls, becoming friends with vanguard artists like Andy Warhol, Madonna, Basquiat and Grace Jones.Haring was also an activist, and estabilished the Keith Haring Foundation in 1989, one year berofe his dead.