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Basquiat, Jean-Michel
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Photograph by Lee Jaffe, Copyright, All Rights Reserved Courtesy of LW Archives
Brooklyn, New York, | New York,
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Born on December 22, the son of a Haitian father, Gérard, and a Puerto Rican mother, Matilde.
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Moves with his family to Puerto Rico for two years for Gérard&#;s work. Back in New York, enrolls at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, moving to City-as-School High School, an alternative school that follows an experiential learning model, a few weeks later.
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With graffiti artist Al Díaz, creates the fictitious artist SAMO (short for “same old shit”), signing this name to graffiti spray-painted on buildings in lower Manhattan that expresses hermetic and, at times, comical, political, religious, and philosophical ideas. Drops out of school. Leaves home. Forms the band Channel 9 with Michael Holman, Shannon Dawson, and Vincent Gallo.
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Basquiat&#;s work is shown for the first time, in a group ex