"I start a picture and i finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life."
The Bonnier Gallery is pleased to announce Jean-Michel Basquiat: Selected Works,
1978–1988, a major exhibition presenting approximately 100 works, curated by Grant Bonnier. The exhibition opens Saturday, May 9, 2026, from 6-9:30PM at 7275 NW 1st Court in Miami’s Little River neighborhood, and is open to the public Wednesday through Saturday, 11 am–6 pm, through June 30, 2026.
The works on view span Jean-Michel Basquiat’s entire documented career, from early collages and postcards made while the artist was still a teenager in downtown New York through canvases completed in 1987, the year before his death. The exhibition includes paintings, works on paper, sculpture, photography, collaborative works with Andy Warhol, and pieces of ephemera. Together, the works demonstrate the full range of Basquiat’s artistic practice and the consistency of his preoccupations — language, power, the body, heroism, and erasure.
