Keith Haring
Haring was still in art school when he began making a name for himself with his distinctive subway graffiti in the 1980s. Best known for the cartoonish figures that populate much of his work, Haring was at the height of his career when he was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988; he developed Kaposi’s sarcoma the following year. In 1989, the artist and activist established the Keith Haring Foundation, which provides funding and imagery to AIDS organizations. He died in February 1990, at age 31, of AIDS-related complications.
