Damien Hirst, born on 7 June 1965, is a prominent English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He became known as a Young British Artist (YBA) during the 1990s.
Since the late 1980s, Hirst has created installations, sculptures, paintings, and drawings exploring art, beauty, religion, science, life, and death. His works challenge contemporary belief systems, reflecting human uncertainty.
While at Goldsmiths College, Hirst curated “Freeze” in 1988, a debut exhibition for the YBAs, characterized by entrepreneurship and opposition.
His famous Spot paintings, started in 1986, feature multicolored spots on white backgrounds, showcasing his artistic brilliance. Hirst creates over a thousand Spot paintings, each painted by hand using glossy house paint.
In 2012, Gagosian exhibited over 300 Spot paintings across all its locations, solidifying Hirst’s position as a significant contemporary artist.
Throughout his career, Hirst’s work has sparked fascination and debate, eliciting varied reactions from critics and the public.
His contributions to contemporary art have left an enduring impact, making him a celebrated figure worldwide.
Damien Hirst’s journey as an artist, entrepreneur, and cultural provocateur highlights his creative ingenuity and exploration of the human condition.
26 July 2022 • Mark Westall
Damien Hirst and HENI will collaborate to present a unique exhibition of paintings from his first NFT collection, The Currency,… Read More
22 July 2022 • Mark Westall
Artory/Winston creates unique investment opportunities by sourcing the finest artworks with the greatest potential to grow in value and generate… Read More
9 July 2022 • Mark Westall
The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg has dismantled Damien Hirst’s installation A Hundred Years (1990) in response to complaints from the animal rights group PETA…. Read More
22 June 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
Art Basel and it’s satellite fair seem to be back to normal this year. There’s plenty of variety – more so than at Frize London last year –
13 April 2022 • daniel barnes
Back in 1991, when Damien Hirst began showing his Natural History works, the Daily Star ran the headline “£50,000 for fish without chips”.
23 March 2022 • Mark Westall
The Art Newspaper reports that the property developer Knight Dragon plans to install Damien Hirst’s 18-metre-tall bronze sculpture Demon with… Read More
3 March 2022 • Mark Westall
Damien Hirst, Cherry Blossoms, the artist’s first major solo exhibition in Japan, presented by The National Art Center, Tokyo and Fondation Cartier… Read More
2 March 2022 • Mark Westall
Natural History is the first-ever exhibition dedicated to Damien Hirst’s groundbreaking works employing formaldehyde.
17 February 2022 • Mark Westall
Art and fame together are like a desire to live forever. —Damien Hirst Marking the opening of the new gallery… Read More
31 January 2022 • Mark Westall
The Empresses is a series of five prints depicting carefully composed images of butterflies by Damien Hirst and published by HENI Editions.
26 January 2022 • Mark Westall
Obviously, Damien must be hard up for cash* what else could explain him designing more album covers? Fresh from designing… Read More
24 January 2022 • Mark Westall
Gagosian have announced that they will be opening of a new gallery in Gstaad, Switzerland, this February. Located along the… Read More
15 January 2022 • Mark Westall
The National Art Center, Tokyo and Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain to present Damien Hirst, Cherry Blossoms, the artist’s first major solo… Read More
30 November 2021 • Mark Westall
Damien Hirst has airdropped 10,000 NFTs to buyers of his “The Currency” collection. The giveaway is from the new NFT collection… Read More
23 November 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
There are two wrong – but curiously common – ways to approach new technological developments in the arts: automatically reject… Read More
18 November 2021 • Mark Westall
White Cube Hong Kong is to present ‘His Own Worst Enemy’, an exhibition by Damien Hirst. On view in Asia… Read More
12 October 2021 • Mark Westall
To celebrate Frieze London 2021, Annabel’s has joined forces with iconic British Artist Damien Hirst to showcase an exclusive presentation… Read More
8 October 2021 • Mark Westall
On the eve of Frieze 2021, the new Claridge’s ArtSpace will be launched on Tuesday 12th October with an exhibition presented by HENI, entitled ‘Sunshine’, showing works by Damien Hirst.
13 September 2021 • Mark Westall
The Currency by Damien Hirst is the artist’s first NFT drop. The Currency is a collection of 10,000 NFTs, also… Read More
31 August 2021 • Mark Westall
Damien Hirst has created the cover for Drake’s hotly-anticipated new album, Certified Lover Boy. The cover features 12 “Pregnant Woman” emojis in… Read More
26 August 2021 • Mark Westall
A statement posted to the Discord server by HENI Analytics about Damien Hirst’s ‘The Currency‘ has broken down its sales… Read More
22 July 2021 • Mark Westall
English artist Damien Hirst’s latest project, “The Currency”, is an artwork in two forms. Its physical form is 10,000 unique hand-painted A4 sheets covered in colourful dots. In the same way as paper money, each sheet includes a holographic image of Hirst, a signature, a microdot and – in place of a serial number – a small individual message.
17 July 2021 • daniel barnes
Brooding, silent, inert, the works in this exhibition are far beyond death, having passed through rigor mortis, decomposition and mumification… Read More
14 July 2021 • Tabish Khan
A triple treat of exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
