Damien Hirst

English sculptor and installation artist

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Works: 76

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Love, love
8 Minutes
Wes Lang : the Black Drawings
Hirst, Fairhurst, Hume, Coventry, Quinn
On the Way to Work

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Damien Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s.

Known for

The Warhol Effect — Self2024
Ronnie O'Sullivan: The Edge of Everything — Self2023
Somebody Up There Likes Me — Self2020
Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence2017
Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable — Self2017
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2015
Damien Hirst: The First Look2012
Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis — Self2011

Article

Damien Steven Hirst (/hɜːrst/; né Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and art collector. He was one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at US$384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.

Death is a central theme in Hirst's works. He became famous for a series of artworks in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep, a pig, and a cow) are preserved, sometimes having been dissected, in formaldehyde. The best-known of these is The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a clear display case.