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Damien Hirst (British, 1965)
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Damien Hirst
Ciclopirox Olamine
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Damien Hirst
Cinchonidine
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Damien Hirst
Cineole
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Damien Hirst
DIACETOXYSCIRPENOL 2005
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Damien Hirst
From the Last Supper Portfolio 1999
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Damien Hirst
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 2000
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Biography |
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1965 |
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Born: in Bristol, UK |
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1985 |
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Took a foundation course at Leeds School of Art, Leeds, UK |
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1988 |
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Curated the student exhibition, Freeze, in a warehouse at Surrey Docks in East London, UK |
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1986 - 1989 |
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B.A. in Fine Art, Goldsmith College, London, UK |
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1994 |
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Received the DAAD fellowship in Berlin, Germany |
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1995 |
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Received the Turner Prize |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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"Life, Death and Love", Galerie Rudolfinum; Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
"Requiem", PinchukArtCentre / PAC, Kiev, Ukraine (solo) |
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2008 |
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"You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil", White Cube, London, UK (solo)
""Beautiful Inside My Head Forever", Sotheby’s Auction, London, UK (solo)
"For the Love of God", Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo) |
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2007 |
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"Damien Hirst", The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX (solo)
"Damien Hirst", Galería Hilario Galguera and Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
"New Religion", Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, Italy (solo)
"Beyond Belief", White Cube, London, UK (solo)
"Stations of the Cross", Essl Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria (solo)
"New Religion", Paul Stolper Gallery; Wallspace, London, UK (solo)
"Superstition", Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; London, UK (solo)
Damien Hirst, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (solo)
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2006 |
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"Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006", Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
"How To Improve The World", Hayward Gallery, London
"Surprise Surprise", Institute of Contemporary Art, London
"Into Me/Out of Me", P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
"Picture This, The Bargehouse", London, UK
"Corpus: Drawings 1981 - 2006", Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"A Thousand Years & Triptychs", Gagosian Gallery, London, UK (solo)>"The Death of God. Towards a Better Understanding of a Life Without God Aboard the Ship of Fools", Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
"Motion On Paper", Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK |
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2005 |
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"A Selection of Works by Damien Hirst from Various Collections", MFA Boston, Boston, MA (solo)
"New Religion", Paul Stolper, London, UK (solo)
"Damien Hirst. Works on Paper", Robert Sandelson, London, UK (solo)
"Damien Hirst", Astrup Fearnley Museet fur Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway (solo)
"Damien Hirst", Static Gallery, Liverpool, UK (solo)
"The Elusive Truth", Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Damien Hirst. In A Spin", Gascoigne Gallery, Harrogate, UK (solo)
"Damien Hirst – Works on Pape"r, Andipa Gallery, London, UK (solo)
"Bock mit Inhalt', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Imageless Icons: Abstract Thoughts", Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
"Major Prints", John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Extreme Abstraction", Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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2004 |
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"Damien Hirst", Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany (solo)
"The Agony and The Ecstasy: Selected Works from 1989-2004", Archaeological Museum, Naples (solo)
"Summer Exhibition", Royal Academy, London, UK
"Intra-muros", MAMAC, Nice, France
"Paper Democracy, Contemporary Art in Editions on Paper", Edifício Cultura Inglesa, São Paulo, Brazil
"What’s Modern?", Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
"Turning Points: 20th Century British Sculpture", Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
"Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)", Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", Tate Britain, London, UK
"Drawings", Gagosian Gallery, London |
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2003 |
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"Romance In the Age of Uncertainty", White Cube, London, UK (solo)
"From the Cradle to the Grave: Selected Drawings", The 25th International Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia (solo)
"The Marble Palace", Russian State Museum, San Petersburg, Russia (solo)
"Damien Hirst", The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (solo)
"Damien Hirst In A Spin; The Action of the World on Things", Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany (solo)
"Damien Hirst", La Caja Negra", Madrid, Spain (solo)
"Same Time This Year", Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
"Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer", 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
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2002 |
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"Damien Hirst’s art education", The Reliance, Leeds, UK (solo)
"Last Spring in Paris", Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
"La Part de l’Autre", Musée d’art Contemporain, Nimes, France
"Limits of Perception", Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
"To Eat or Not to Eat", CASA. Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
"Painting Matter", James Cohen Gallery, New York, NY
"The Physical World", Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
"The Rowan Collection. Contemporary British & Irish Art", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
"Self-Medicated", Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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2001 |
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"Artist’s London: Holbein to Hirst", Museum of London, London, UK
"Art –Tube 01", Café De Paris, London, UK
"Printers Inc.", The Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
"Art > Music, Rock Pop Techno", Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
"Double Vision", Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
"Freestyle. Werke Aus der Sammlung Boros", Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
"Beautiful Productions. Art to play, art to wear, art to own", Whitechapel, London, UK
"Camera Works. The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Art", Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
e, Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection", Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
"Field Day", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
"Public Offerings", The Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, CA
"Breaking the Mould: 20th Century British Sculpture from Tate", Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK
"Century City", Tate Modern, London, UK |
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2000 |
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"Pharmacy", Tate Gallery, London, UK (solo)
"Focus on Damien Hirst", Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway (solo)
"Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings", Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Damien Hirst", Sadler’s Wells, London, UK (solo)
"Hyper Mental", Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
"Lets Entertain", Walker Arts Centre, Minneiapolis, MN; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
"Balls", James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
"Peter Blake About Collage", Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
"After Life", 11 Duke Street, London, UK
"The History of the Turner Prize, 1984-1999 and People’s Show 2: Pictures selected by the public", Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK
"Video Vibe. Art, Music and Video in the UK", The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
"Minding", Le Garage, Geneva, Switzerland
"Zeitgenossen/Contemporarians:Malerei/Paintings", Galerie Editions Kunsthandel GmbH, Essen, Germany
"On the Edge of the Western World", Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Out There, White Cube²", Hoxton, London, UK
"Ant Noises", Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
"Art in Sacred Spaces", St. Stephen’s Church, London, UK
"Psycho", Anne Faggionato, London, UK
"Blue: borrowed and new", The New At Gallery, Walsall, UK
"Sincerely yours. British art from the 90s", Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
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1998 |
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"Damien Hirst", Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
" Wall Projects: Damien Hirst", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
"Potrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"UK Maximum Diversity", Galerie Krinzinger, Bregenz, Austria
" Fun de Siècle", Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall, Germany
"Pandaemonium. The London Festival of Moving Image", LEA, London, UK
" Fifty Years of British Sculpture: Works from the Arts Council Collection", Lothbury Gallery, London, UK
"Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray", 11 Duke Street, London, UK
"The Colony Room 50th Anniversary Art Exhibition", A22 Projects, London, UK
"Inner Eye", Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection", Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, FL
"Modern British Art", Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
"Noir", Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
"Wild/Life, -or-, The Impossibility of Mistaking Nature for Culture", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC |
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1997 |
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"Damien Hirst", Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway (solo)
"Damien Hirst", Helsinki City Art Museum. Helsinki, Finland (solo)
"The Beautiful Afterlife", Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Germany (solo)
"Sensation", Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
"Picture Britanica. Art from Britain", Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
"Turning Up #4", Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
"Sunny Days / Critical Times. An Exhibition of Works from the Bohen Foundation’s Collection", The Bohen Foundation, New York, NY
"Veronica’s Revenge : Oeuvres photographiques de la Lambert Art Collection", Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Szitzerland
" Material Culture", Hayward Gallery, London, UK |
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1996 |
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"No Sense of Absolute Corruption", Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Life/Live", Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; Centro de Exposições do Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
"Other Men’s Flowers", Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
"Do It", Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna, Austria
"Twentieth Century British Sculpture", Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
"A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture", Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
"Spellbound", Hayward Gallery, London, UK
" Works on Paper", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
"Happy End", Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany |
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1995 |
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"Pharmacy", Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
"Still", Jay Jopling/White Cube, London, UK (solo)
"Sings and Wonders", Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
" Minky Manky", South London Gallery, London, UK; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
"A Bonnie Situation : Truth and Fiction", Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
"Laboratories", Galerie Art et Essai, University of Rennes, Rennes, France
"The Reflected Image", Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy
"Turner Prize Exhibition", Tate Gallery, London, UK [winner]
"Brilliant! Art from London", Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, MN; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX |
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1994 |
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Pharmacy, Museum, Dallas, TX (solo)
"Making Beautiful Drawings", Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany (solo)
"Currents 23", Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
"A Bad Environment for White Monchrome Paintings", Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA; DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo)
"Cocido Y Crudo", Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
"Nature Morte", Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
"Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away", curated by Damien Hirst,Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki, Finland; Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Portalen, Copenhagen, Danemark |
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1993 |
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Visual Candy. Regen Projects. Los Angeles, CA. (solo) |
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1993 |
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"Damien Hirst", Galerie Jablonka, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Visual Candy, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
"Here and Now : Twenty Three Years of the Serpentine Gallery", Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
" The 21st Century", Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
"The Nightshade Family", Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
"Aperto : Venice Biennial", Aperto Section, Venice, Italy
"Displace", Cohen Gallery, New York, NY
"A Wonderful Life", Lisson Gallery, London, UK |
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1992 |
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"Where’s God Now", Jay & Donatella Chiat, New York, NY (solo)
" Marianne, Hildegard", Unfair/Jay Jopling, Cologne, Germany (solo)
"Damien Hirst : Third International Istanbul Biennial", British Council, Istanbul, Turkey (solo)
"Pharmacy", Cohen Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Young British Artists", Saatchi Collection, London, UK
"Portfolio", Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, UK
"Posthuman", Fondation Asher Edelman, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
Group Exhibition, Luis Campaña Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
"Strange Developments", Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
"British Art", Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
"Turner Prize Exhibition", Tate Gallery, London, UK |
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1991 |
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"When Logics Die", Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France (solo)
"Internal Affairs", Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (solo)
"In & Out of Love", Woodstock Street, London, UK (solo)
"Damien Hirst", Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (solo)
"Louder Than Words", The Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
"Broken English",Serpentine Gallery, London, UK |
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1990 |
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"Modern Medicine", Building One, London, UK
"Gambler", Building One, London, UK |
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1989 |
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"New Contemporaries", Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK |
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1988 |
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"Freeze", Surrey Docks, London, UK |
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Selected Public Collections: |
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GoMA - Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Hiscox Art Projects, London, UK
Tate Britain, London, UK
Tate Modern, London, UK
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Monica, CA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
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Literature |
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2009 |
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Bracewell, Michael. Requiem I & II Slipcase Edition. London, UK; Kiev, Ukraine: Other Criteria / Pinchuk Art Centre, 2009 (catalogues) |
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2008 |
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Bracewell M., Burn G. and Macaulay Michael. Beautiful Inside My Head Forever. London, UK: Sotheby's, 2008 (Catalogue)
Fuchs, Rudi, Damien Hirst, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Will Self. Beyond Belief. London, UK: Other Criteria and Jay Jopling / White Cube, 2008 (catalogue)
Miller, Harland. You dig the tunnel, I’ll hide the soil. London, UK: Jay Jopling / White Cube, 2008 |
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2007 |
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Superstition. New York: Other Criteria / Gagosian Gallery, 2007 (catalogue)
Fuchs R., Kausmally T., Swain H. and Bill White. For the Love of God The Making of the Diamond Skull. London, UK: Other Criteria and Jay Jopling / White Cube, 2007 |
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2006 |
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The Elusive Truth. New York: Other Criteria / Gagosian Gallery, 2006 (catalogue)
The Death of God. London, UK: Other Criteria, 2006 (catalogue)
Baker, Simon. Corpus: Drawings 1981 - 2006. New York: Other Criteria / Gagosian Gallery, 2006 (catalogue)
Hirst, Damien,Burn, Gordon. I Want To Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now. London, UK: Other Criteria, 2006
Peyton-Jones J., Miller H. and Obrist H.U. In the darkest hour there may be light - Works from Damien Hirst. London, UK:Other Criteria / Serpentine Gallery, 2006 (catalogue)
New Religion. London, UK: Other Criteria / Paul Stolper Gallery (catalogue) |
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2005 |
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The Elusive Truth, New Paintings. London, UK: Other Criteria, 2005 (catalogue) |
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2004 |
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Shani, Annushka. From the Cradle to the Grave, Selected Drawings. London: Other Criteria, 2004
Cicelyn Eduardo and Codognato Mario. Damien Hirst. Edited by the Museo Archeologico Nazionale. Naples, Italy: Electa, 2004 (catalogue) |
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2003 |
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Shani, Annushka. Romance in the Age of Uncertainty. London, UK: Jay Jopling / White Cube, 2003 (catalogue) |
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2001 |
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Burn, Gordon. On the Way to Work - Damien Hisrst. London, UK: Faber and Faber, 2001 |
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2000 |
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Burn, Gordon and George Poste. Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings. New York: Other Criteria / Gagosian Gallery, 2000 (catalogue) |
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