📝 Exhibition Description:

The Bonnier Gallery is thrilled 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 significant paintings on canvas,
works on paper spanning his entire career, a large three-dimensional sculpture composed of painted
wood blocks, painted glass objects from the early 1980s, photographs by Andy Warhol, and a number
of collaborative works 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.
“Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work remains one of the most urgent and unresolved conversations in
American art, and this exhibition gives Miami the opportunity to encounter that conversation at its fullest
depth — tracing the complete arc of a career that transformed what painting could say and who it could
speak for. Bringing a presentation of this scale to Little River is a reflection of the cultural evolution
happening across this city right now. Miami is becoming something new, and an exhibition like this is
both a product of that moment and a contribution to it.”
— Grant Bonnier, The Bonnier Gallery