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Damien Hirst

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Gender Male
Age 58
Web site www.damienhirst.com
Date of birth June 7,1965
Zodiac sign Gemini
Periods Conceptual art
Young British Artists
Contemporary art
Modern art
Modernism
Expressionism
2000
Job Artist
Entrepreneur
Film director
Art collector
Education University of London
Goldsmiths, University of London
Allerton Grange School
Leeds Arts University
Movies/Shows Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture
Hanging Around
Strummerville
Breath
Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable
Official site damienhirst.com
Parents Mary Brennan
Awards Turner Prize
Children Connor Hirst
Cassius Atticus Hirst
Cyrus Joe Hirst
Siblings Bradley Hirst
Gabbie Hirst-Derbyshire
Period by artworks Conceptual art
Expressionism
Contemporary art
Young British Artists
Born Bristol
United Kingdom
Works For the Love of God
Mother and Child, Divided
Mickey
Influences Jeff Koons
Marcel Duchamp
Francis Bacon
Sex Pistols
Michael Craig-Martin
John LeKay
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Date of Upd.
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Damien Hirst: ABC
Damien Hirst Colouring Book
Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable
The Complete Spot Paintings: (Signed Limited Edition)
Freedom Not Genius: Works from the Murderme Collection
The Complete Medicine Cabinets
Entomology Cabinets and Paintings: Scalpel Blade Paintings and Color Charts
For the Love of God: The Making of the Diamond Skull
The Elusive Truth
Damien Hirst: Pharmacy London
End of an Era
I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now
Romance in the Age of Uncertainty
Candy: The Complete Visual Candy Paintings
The Wolseley Drawings
The Death of God
Poisons + Remedies: Signed Limited Edition
From the cradle to the grave
Relics
No Love Lost: Signed Edition
The Cancer Chronicles
Corpus: Drawings 1981-2006
Damien Hirst
Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings
Requiem I & II: Text in English and Ukrainian
The Souls: (Singed Limited Edition)
The Complete Vitrines
Damien Hirst: The Bilotti Paintings
For the Love of God
The beautiful afterlife
Cornucopia
Re-object
Superstition
The Many Faces of Jonathan Yeo
Yayoi Kusama Now
Don't be so
Soho Society
Hirst Interviews
Triptychs and a Thousand Years: Francis Bacon and Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst: Life, Death and Love : Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection Shown at Kunsthuset Kabuso 02. 06. -09. 09. 2007
Heads 2007-09
Meaningless Static
The Acquired Inability to Escape Divided: The Acquired Inability to Escape Inverted and Divided and Other Works
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Damien Hirst Life story


Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists 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.

Early Life

Daiemn hirst was born on june 7th 1965 in bristol. England. He attended the jacob kramer school of art in leeds. Where he studied fine art.

Artistic Style

Damine hirst is known for his controversial and confrontational art. Which often includes themes of death and mortality. His work has been described as a mixture of pop art. Minimalism. And conceptualism. He often employs the use of animals and animal parts in his work.

Notable Works

Damien hirst is perhaps best known for his sculpture the physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living. Hwich consists of a shark preserved in a tank of formaldehyde. Other notable works include for the olve of god. A platinum acst of a human skull encrusted with 8,601 diamonds. And pharmacy. A pharmacy installation which includes a variety of medicine cabinets and prescription medications.

Collections & Exhibitions

Damien hirst has had numerous solo exhibitions trhoughout his caree. Ras well as group exhibitions with his artist collective. The young british artists. His work has been featured in the atte gallery. The guggenheim museum. The museum of modern art in new york. And the museum of contemporary art in los angeles.

Influence & Legacy

Damien hirst has been credited wtih establishing the young british artsits movement. Which helped to revolutionize the art world in the 1990s. His work has influenced many modern artsits. And his sculptures have become iconic symbols of the 1990s.

Recognition & Awards

Damien hirst has won numerous awards. Including the turner prize in 1995 and the prestigious praemimu imperiale award in 2013. He was also appointed commander of the oredr of the british empire in 2003.

Business Ventures

In addition to his artwork. Damien hirst is also an entrpereneur. He is the founder and chairman of the company science. Which produces and slels his artwork. He has also opened several restaurants in london. As well as an art foundation in devon.

Important Event

In 2008. Damien hirst s scultpure for the love of god sold for £50 millino. Making it the most expensive work of art ever sold by a living artist.

Interesting Fact

In 1999. Damien hirst became the first artist to veer have a solo show at the tate gallery in london.

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