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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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... " What we are seeing in West Africa now is a movement like the Young British Artists in the 1980s, and Amoako is the Damien Hirst or Tracey Emin of this movement, " he told me...

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... Banksy previously organised the in a Somerset resort which closed in 2015 - this was a collaboration of more than 50 artists including Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer and Jimmy Cauty...

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... Damien Hirst burning his own artHirst is no stranger to publicity stunts, but many criticised him for burning his own valuable artworks during a cost-of-living crisis that saw collectors forced to choose whether to keep a physical artwork or the NFT representing it...

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...By Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporterDamien Hirst has begun burning hundreds of his own artworks after selling a series of non-fungible tokens (NFTs)...

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... The company owns works by Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin and Bridget Riley, with the latter believed that the highest valuation of over £1m...

To sell British Airways art collection to raise cash

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... The collection includes art by Damien Hirst, Bridget Riley and Peter Doig, with a thesis were assumed, a value of more than £1m...

Brit Awards tweak rules after diversity row

Apr 24,2020 3:19 am

By Mark SavageBBC Music Correspondent

Organisers of the Brit Awards have announced they will update their rules to address criticism over diversity.

The Show faced a backlash in January when it was revealed that no women were shortlisted for The Best artist prize, which replaced the gendered best male and female categories two years ago.

Harry Styles , who won the award,

The Brits will now expand The Number of nominees for The Prize From Five to 10.

It is hoped The Change will create a more balanced field.

A new award for best R& B act will also be created for the 2024 ceremony.

Previously, R& B artists were forced to compete in a combined best pop/R& B category - which was predictably dominated by mainstream stars like Harry Styles and Dua Lipa .

Singer Mahalia voiced her dissatisfaction at the 2023 Brits ceremony, turning up in a Burberry jacket with The Words " Long Live R& B" painted on the back.

Speaking to Bbc News on Friday, she welcomed The Changes .

" I literally screamed on The Phone when I found out, " She Said . " This is huge".

She continued: " For me, when the [combined] category got announced a couple of years ago, I was disappointed for the younger generation of R& B kids, who were going to think a Brit nomination was impossible.

" I was kind of feeling that, too. If I'm in a longlist with All of these huge art pop artists, I don't know how I'm going to shine through.

" So my initial reaction to The Change was just pure happiness and pride. "

Her comments were echoed by BBC 1Xtra's Dj Ace , who presents a weekly show dedicated to R& B.

" Right now is such a great time for R& B," He Said , citing acts like Ella Mai , Cleo Sol and Flo - All of whom would be eligible for the new prize.

" Feel-good Music Is back, there's an explosion of R& B and Afrobeats music. People want to feel again.

He credited Mahalia with persuading the organisers to take action.

" Wearing that jacket said a lot, even though it could have been detrimental to her career.

" Going against The Grain isn't always the done thing in the Music Industry , but she had something to say and She Said it. And I'm so glad that they've taken heed. "

'Inclusive and reflective'

The Brits said the inaugural best R& B prize would have an eligibility period of 24 months, instead of the usual 12, to make sure artists who may have been overlooked in 2023 were eligible to qualify.

The extended shortlist for artist of the year will also apply to The Best International Artist category.

The Changes were decided as part of an annual review of The Ceremony , said Dr Jo Twist, CEO of awards organisers the BPI.

" Obviously we were disappointed that no women were nominated for artist of the year in 2023, " she told Bbc News .

" So we reached out to people in the industry and expert groups to understand how we can improve this for this year, to make the Brits inclusive and reflective. "

She added that " this year is looking very positive" for female artists and R& B acts, with the likes of Dua Lipa , Raye, Mahalia and PinkPantheress All eligible in multiple categories.

Separately, organisers revealed that British visual artist Rachel Jones would design the 2024 Brit Award Trophy.

She follows in the footsteps of Damien Hirst , Vivienne Westwood , Sir Peter Blake and Zaha Hadid , All of whom have put their individual spin on the traditional Britannia statue.

Recently labelled " The Most interesting abstract painter working today" by Time Out magazine, Jones's trophy is an explosion of colour, painted in a variety of styles and textures.

" I feel like it's My Voice in the form of a trophy, it's colourful and chaotic, " She Said in a statement.

" This Was really important because All The Other trophies were so distinctive, and you know immediately who made them. I'm really happy that what we've ended up with is a reflection of my visual language".

The 2024 Brit Award ceremony will take place at London's O2 Arena on Saturday, 2 March, and will be broadcast live on ITV.

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