B. 1965

Damien Hirst is a British conceptual artist whose pieces deliberately commentate on vanity, beauty, and death. He’s been known to intentionally alienate his observers such as his presentation of dead animals in formaldehyde as art in the 90s. With a love for pushing the limits of conventional society Hirst enjoys doing things out of the box and his own way, which includes running auctions for his own work and bypassing the typical standard of displaying his art in his partner galleries. Hirts’s refusal to play by the rules has made him both infamous and iconic in different circles.

Exhibitions:

MoMA

-Damien Hirst, In a Spring, The Action of the World on Things, Volume I, 2004

-Color Chart: Reinventing Color 1950 to Today, 2008

-Stranger than Fiction: Art of Our Time, 2014

Phillips London

-Where the Land Meets the Sea, 2023

Awards:

Turner prize nominee, 1992

Turner Prize Winner, 1995