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.
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.
14 July 2021 • Mark Westall
The Currency is a collection of 10,000 NFTs which correspond to 10,000 unique physical artworks by Damien Hirst, with the NFTs containing high-resolution images of the front and back of each of the 10,000 artworks.
13 July 2021 • Mark Westall
I can’t understand why most people believe in medicine and don’t believe in art, without questioning either. —Damien Hirst Now open Cathedrals… Read More
5 July 2021 • Mark Westall
“The Cherry Blossoms are about beauty and life and death. They’re extreme—there’s something almosttacky about them. […] They’re decorative but… Read More
14 June 2021 • Mark Westall
Relics and Fly Paintings by Damien Hirst is the second phase of the artist’s yearlong takeover of the Britannia Street gallery, following the inaugural exhibition of Fact Paintings and Fact Sculptures.
16 May 2021 • Tabish Khan
Rush out to the shows you’ve missed while museums have been closed.
7 May 2021 • Infinity Bunce
Matthew Collings has been an inspiration to me for many years and this interview has been a fantastic opportunity to cover his successful career in the arts.
27 April 2021 • Mark Westall
Meat The Future presents cutting-edge research on the environmental and health impacts of eating meat, and offers visitors a variety… Read More
13 April 2021 • Mark Westall
Damien Hirst’s has taken over Gagosian’s Britannia Street gallery . Fact Paintings and Fact Sculptures is an exhibition of rarely seen works by Damien Hirst created between 1993 and 2021.
31 March 2021 • Mark Westall
According to a report in The Art Newspaper Damien Hirst’s artwork, The Currency is to launch on a new NFT platform Palm.
30 March 2021 • Mark Westall
Pallant House Gallery has announced a unique response to creativity during the coronavirus pandemic. The Gallery has commissioned a model art gallery that will feature original miniature artworks from over 30 leading contemporary British artists
17 March 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
Two market developments have attracted recent attention: A Damien Hirst edition limited by time and Beeple’s NFT sale..
15 March 2021 • Mark Westall
“Making money is art, and working is art, and good business is the best art.” Andy Warhol For the first time, both… Read More
13 March 2021 • Mark Westall
Damien Hirst’s cherry blossom prints sold for a record-breaking $22,443,000, last week believed to be the most successful print drop… Read More
26 February 2021 • Mark Westall
HENI Leviathan has released a set of 8 cherry blossom prints by Damien Hirst, The Virtues, published by HENI Editions.
22 February 2021 • daniel barnes
It’s been a while, but the column about the value of art is back. I wrote the first 100 instalments… Read More
11 February 2021 • Mark Westall
Gagosian has handed the reins of its space in London’s Britannia Street to Damien Hirst for a 12 months
4 February 2021 • Mark Westall
Sculptures from Damien Hirst’s Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable are being resurrected for a new exhibition.
4 February 2021 • Mark Westall
Beverly Hirst Recycler is a collection of wearable art by Damien Hirst and Tetsuzo Okubo, that will be auctioned on Virgil Abloh’s “Canary Yellow” retail platform from February 7th.
1 February 2021 • Mark Westall
A balm to the Lockdown Lover’s tireless online search for gifts could be Dellasposa Gallery’s Valentine’s Day Art Edit, a coquettish curation of prints, paintings, and books,
8 January 2021 • Mark Westall
A major exhibition of over 40 works by Damien Hirst will open in St. Moritz, Switzerland, across four locations from 23 January – 28 February 2021.
21 December 2020 • Mark Westall
Damien Hirst has installed a 12ft sculpture the Monk in the middle of a frozen lake in St Moritz as part of a new exhibition called Mental Escapology
