Damien Hirst
(Bristol, 1965)
British painter and sculptor, known as much for his shocking art as for his skills in self-publicity and quite possibly the most famous of the recent British artists. Rejected by the St Martins School of Art, Damien Hirst received his training at the Goldsmith’s College. A morbid character, his most familiar works are those where he uses dead animals and fish for raw materials. His works have made him a favorite not only of his local butchers but also of the Saatchi Collection. His famous pieces, include, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, consists of a dead shark floating in a large tank and Mother and Child Divided, where he chops up a cow and a calf into halves and puts them in four tanks. The latter was exhibited at the Tate Gallery, London.
In 1997, Damien Hirst expressed his literary talents in a book titled I Want to Spend the Rest of my Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One on One, Always, Forever. Cosmo Landesman of the Sunday Times of London called this book ‘ an obscene love letter from an artist to himself’.
| Selected Exhibitions: Museums and Galleries |
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| 2004 |
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Damien Hirst.Galerie Andreas Binder. Munich, Germany. -solo |
| 2004 |
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In-a-Gadda-da-Vida at Tate Britain. Collaboration with Sarah Lucas and Angus Fairhurst. |
| 2004 |
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Survey of Key Works from 1989-2004; Museo Nazionale Archaeologico, Naples, Italy |
| 2003 |
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Damien Hirst, La Caja Negra. Madrid, Spain. -solo |
| 2003 |
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Damien Hirst - Romance in the Age of Uncertainty. White Cube. London, UK -solo |
| 2003 |
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Damien Hirst- Saatchi Gallery. London, UK -solo |
| 2000 |
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Focus on Damien Hirst. Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art. Oslo. -solo |
| 2000 |
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Sadler's Wells. London, UK -solo |
| 2000 |
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Gagosian Gallery. New York, NY -solo |
| 2000 |
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Saatchi Gallery. London, UK. -solo |
| 2000 |
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White Cube. London, UK. -solo |
| 2000 |
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Pharmacy. Tate Gallery. London, UK-solo |
| 1998 |
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Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago, IL -solo |
| 1997 |
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Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art. Oslo, Norway. -solo |
| 1997 |
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Helsinki City Art Museum. Helsinki. -solo |
| 1997 |
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The Beautiful Afterlife. Bruno Bischofberger. Zurich, Germany. -solo |
| 1996 |
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No Sense of Absolute Corruption. Gagosian Gallery. New York, NY -solo |
| 1995 |
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Pharmacy. Kukje Gallery. Seoul, South Korea. -solo |
| 1994 |
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Pharmacy. Museum. Dallas, TX -solo |
| 1993 |
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Visual Candy. Regen Projects. Los Angeles, CA. -solo |
| 1993 |
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Damien Hirst. Galerie Jablonka. Cologne, Germany. -solo |
| 1992 |
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Pharmacy. Cohen Gallery. New York, NY. -solo |
| 1990 |
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In & Out of Love. Woodstock Street Gallery. London, UK -solo |
ORIGINAL ART BY DAMIEN HIRST AT PICASSOMIO
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