Person · 1960–1988
Jean-Michel Basquiat
The neo-expressionist painter who rose from the streets to the heights of the global art world.
A global figure of [[black-visual-art]].
Starting as a graffiti artist in New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat became a sensation of the 1980s art scene, his charged, text-laden canvases confronting race, power, and history before his death at 27.