Keith Haring, one of the leaders of neo-pop, was one of the most representative artists of his generation. Son of Joan and Allen Haring, and greater than four siblings, was born May 4 1958 in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. Reveals his artistic talent and very young, having regularly attended the high school, joined the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh.

In 1976, on the new challenge in youth and hippie culture, runs the United States in hitchhiking, doing stage in various cities throughout the country to observe more closely the work of American artists of the scene, those so often seen only on glossy pages of magazines. Back in Pittsburgh the same year, he entered the University and holds its first major exposure to the Pittsburgh Arts and Crafts Center.

Son of the culture of the street, happy birth of the so-called New York street art, before his consecration in the world "official" art was initially an outcast. In 1978 he joined the School of Visual Arts in New York, becoming known in the early'80s with murals made in the metropolitan and, later, with work on display here and there, among a variety of club and "vernissage" more or less improvised.