Title: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Equals Pi LED Neon Sign
Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Medium Type: LED neon flex consisting of PVC or Silicon piping with LED lights on a acrylic board

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Jean-Michel Basquiat
American, 1960–1988

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) was a groundbreaking American artist who rose from the streets of New York to global acclaim in the early 1980s. Beginning as a graffiti artist under the name SAMO, Basquiat brought a raw, powerful visual language to the art world — combining text, symbols, skulls, crowns, and cultural references in a frenetic, expressive style.

His work challenges racial injustice, class power, and the commodification of Black culture, often blending elements of jazz, African heritage, and anatomical imagery. Though his career was brief, Basquiat’s influence on contemporary art, fashion, and culture remains profound.The immediacy and intellectual depth of his paintings won him widespread acclaim both before and after his untimely death at the age of 27.

Basquiat’s paintings now belong in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. In 2017, Basquiat’s Untitled (1982) notched $110.5 million at auction and became the most expensive artwork by an American artist to ever be sold.

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