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Basquiat made regular appearances on the show over the next few years and Glenn O'Brien would become an early fan and enabler of Basquiat work. The September Warhol-Basquiat collaborative show at Tony Shafrazi gallery is panned by critics. Basquiat and Warhol break off their friendship as his drug use escalates.
Basquiat makes a trip in November 1986 to Ivory Coast with Jennifer Goode and Bischofberger to attend his show in Abidijan.
On December 11, 1978, The Village Voice ran a piece about the downtown graffiti scene mentioning Basquiat and Diaz by name, this would be the first mention of Basquiat as an artist in print and he felt the fame he had been seeking since he was a child coming to him.
Basquiat and Diaz had a falling out and with it the SAMO project ended.
That same year, Basquiat formed the noise rock band Test Pattern – which was later renamed Gray – which played at Arleen Schloss's open space,
"Wednesdays at A's";, where in October 1979 Basquiat showed, among others, his SAMO color Xerox work.
Washington Square, New York, ca. SAMO "SAMO as an escape clause".
This bold move was driven by his desire to pursue a creative path in the bustling streets of New York City. Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, USA
The 1980s: A Selected View from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1990
Quickdraw: American Master Drawings Since 1959, Frank Bernaducci Gallery, New York, USA
Works on Paper, Cavaliero Fine Arts, New York, USA
Language in Art, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80s, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
Pharmakon ’90, Nippon Convention Center, International Exhibition Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Faces, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York USA
Gesture & Signature, Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Par hassard: A Changing Installation of Recent Acquisitions, Douglas Drake Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Selection Americaine, Galerie Hadrien-Thomas, Paris, France
Selected Works, The Greenberg Gallery, St.
Louis, USA
Summer Works on Paper, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
1989
Modern and Contemporary Master Drawings, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA
Words, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat/Julian Schnabel, Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden
1979-1989: American, Italian, Mexican Art from the Collection of Francesco Pellizzi, Hofstra Museum, New York, USA; Traveled to: Lehigh University Art Galleries, USA; Ralph Wilson Gallery, Bethlehem, USA
The Chase Manhattan Bank Collection 1974-1989, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
A Decade of American Drawing 1980-1989, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The Blues Aesthetics: Black Culture and Modernism, The Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, USA; Traveled to: the California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, USA; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, USA; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, USA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
An Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R.
Weisman Art Foundation, Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, USA; Traveled to: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA; Cheney Cowles Art Museum, Spokane, USA; Boise Art Museum, USA; University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, USA; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, USA; Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, USA
1900 to Now: Modern Art from Rhode Island Collections, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
Figure As Subject: The Revival of Figuration Since 1975, Whitney Museum of American Art at the Equitable Center, New York, USA; Traveled to: Erwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, USA; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, USA; Amarillo Art Center, USA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA; Madison Art Center, USA
1988
Selected Americans, Edward Totah Gallery, London, UK
Rebop, Paula Allen Gallery, New York, USA
After Street Art.
Boca Raton Museum of Art, USA
Collaborations: Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mayor Rowan Gallery, Mayor Gallery, and David Grob Limited, London, UK
Works on Paper, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York, USA
Works on Paper, Michael Maloney Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
L’art Contemporian a la Defense: Les Annees 80 Vues par Cinq Galeries, Galerie La Defense Art 4, Paris, France
Art et Langage: Annees 80 Oeuvrs Choisies, Centre d’Histoire de L’art Contemporain, Quimper, France
1987
Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
The East Village Force de Frappe Comes to the South Bronx, Fashion Moda, Bronx, USA
Pop Art from the U.S.A and Europe from the Ludwig Collection, Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy
16 @ 56: Summer Salon, 56 Bleecker Gallery, New York, USA
The Frederick R.
Weisman Collection: An International Survey, San Antonio Art Institute, USA
New York Graffiti. Billed as Rammellzee vs. Kunsthalle, Tubingen, Germany; Traveled to: Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany
The Chi-Chi Show, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, USA
1984
Van der Zee Memorial Show: James Van der Zee, 1986-1983, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, USA
Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art, Center Gallery of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA; Traveled to: The Amelie A.
Wallace Art Gallery, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, New York, USA; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, USA; The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, USA; The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, USA; Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Arte di Frontiera: N.Y. Graffiti, Gallerie Communale d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA
Via New York, Musee d’art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
American Neo-Expressionists, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
Art, Area Club, New York, USA
Drawings by 11 Artists, Willard Gallery, New York, USA
Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1975-1984, Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, USA
Painting Now: The Restoration of Painterly Figuration, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
The East Village Scene, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Figuration Libre France/USA, Museé d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Aspekte amerikanischer Kunst der Gegenwart, Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
New Art, Museé d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
1983
Champions, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Intoxication, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, USA
Back to the USA: Amerikanische Kunst der Siebziger und Achtziger, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland; Traveled to: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany; Württembergischer Kunstverien, Stuttgart, Germany
Group Show, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Food for the Soup Kitchen, Fashion Moda, Bronx, New York, USA
Mary Boone and Her Artists, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
From the Street, Greenville County Museum of Art, USA
Expressive Malerei nach Picasso, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Written Imagery Unleashed in the Twentieth Century, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, USA
Post-Graffiti, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
Paintings.
The Modena Paintings, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
2022
Basquiat. Throughout his rise to fame in the 1980s, he developed relationships with several influential figures in the art and music worlds, including musician Madonna and actress Suzanne Mallouk. His work primarily fell within the realm of Neo-Expressionism, a movement that celebrated individuality and raw emotional expression.
The death effects Basquiat deeply who sees how easily that could have been him, young, black, tagging on the street. SAMO quickly garnered a following, leading to an underground fame that piqued the interest of art critics and collectors, laying the groundwork for his transition into the fine art world.
SAMO Graffiti Andy Warhol
Biography
Basquiat Biography
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 22, 1960, shortly after the death of his elder brother, Max.
He was the second of four children of Matilda Andrades and Gérard Basquiat. The relationship went far beyond professional and became a deep friendship with Warhol acting as mentor to Basquiat as prodigy.
Basquiat is included in the Whitney Biennial Exhibition as the youngest artist ever to be invited and his paintings are singled out for mention in the press.
At 15, Basquiat ran away from home. He was 27 years old.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
b. In 1978 while Basquiat was living rough, sleeping in parks and selling hand painted shirts and postcards as well as drugs to make money Harvey Russack discovered him painting a building one night, they became friends, and he offered him a day job.
He slept on park benches in Tompkins Square Park, and took LSD for the first time. The single's cover featured Basquiat's artwork, making the pressing highly desirable among both record and art collectors.
In 1983 Basquiat was back in New York and with money made in California he rents a loft building on Great Jones street from Andy Warhol.
Die Retrospektive, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure, Starrett-Lehigh Building, New York, USA
2020
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kunstmuseum Brod, Los Angeles, USA
2018
Jean-Michel Basquiat – Egon Schiele, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Basquiat.
Though their friendship had ended his former mentors death hits Basquiat hard and he becomes increasingly isolated, his heroin addiction and depression grow more severe.