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Damien Hirst (British, 1965)
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Damien Hirst
Beautiful, galactic, exploding screenprint (Spin) 2001
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Damien Hirst
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) 2000
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Damien Hirst
The Magnificent Seven 2000
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Damien Hirst
The Souls I – Fuchsia Pink/Oriental Gold 2010
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Damien Hirst
The Souls I – Smoke/Oriental Gold 2010
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Damien Hirst
The Souls I – Turquoise/Cool Gold/Emerald Green 2010
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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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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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Recipient, DAAD fellowship in Berlin, Germany |
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1995 |
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Recipient, Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London, UK |
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Lives and works in Devon and London, UK |
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Exhibitions |
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2013 |
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All You Need IS LOVE - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Modern Print Masters Stock - The Watermill, Aberfeldy, Perthshire (Scotland)
Große Gefühle - Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
Don't Be Shy, Don't Hold Back - The Logan Collection At Sfmoma - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
sous influences - arts plastiques et psychotropes - La Maison Rouge, Paris
Damien Hirst: Entomology Cabinets and Paintings, Scalpel Blade - Paintings and Colour Charts - White Cube - Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR
Group Show - Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR
To Be With Art Is All We Ask - Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
13 Rooms - Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney, NSW |
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2012 |
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Tate Modern, London, UK (solo)
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Paul Stolper Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
Gagosian Gallery, eleven locations worldwide, UK (solo)
White Cube, Bermondsey, London, UK |
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2011 |
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Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Bienal pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK
Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
Songeun Artspace, Seoul, Korea
Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
Leeds City Gallery, Leeds, UK
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
Prada Foundation, Venice, Italy
Gagosian, Rome, Italy
Tate Britain, London, UK (solo)
Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, China |
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2010 |
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Visual/Conceptual - National Center For Contemporary Art (NCCA) - Moscow Branch, Moscow, Russia
FYI – The Reflected Gaze Self Portraiture Today - Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Theology, Philosophy, Medicine, Justice, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland (solo) |
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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 Paper, 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 Cube, 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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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
Visual Candy. Regen Projects. Los Angeles, CA. (solo) |
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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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Literature |
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2012 |
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Damien Hirst by Ann Gallagher |
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2011 |
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The Complete Medicine Cabinets by Damien Hirst, James Frey, Arthur C Danto and Steve Jones |
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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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