2018
British artist Damien Hirst is widely considered the enfant terrible of contemporary art. He is the most prominent of the so-called Young British Artists, or YBAs, a group, largely composed of Hirst’s classmates at Goldsmiths, in London, that began exhibiting together in warehouses and factories after 1988 and is known for the use of unconventional materials and “shock tactics” in his paintings, prints, sculptures and other works.
In the 1990s, Hirst said, “I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.” And indeed, he is notorious for piquing critics and baffling the public with such pieces as his signature glass vitrines containing dead sheep or sharks in formaldehyde, and his diamond-encrusted skull, For the Love of God.
Working primarily in sculpture, Hirst takes after French modernist master Marcel Duchamp in his use of ready-made objects and materials, which he combines to ironic effect. He often creates in series, as with "The Cure (Violet)" and "The Cure (Turquoise)," both from 2014, which are among several pill paintings referencing Andy Warhol’s embrace of mass production.
Belonging to Hirst's ongoing series of “spot” paintings, begun in the 1980s, the 2005 piece Xylene Cyanol Dye Solution is striking for its machinelike, industrial uniformity and almost childlike simplicity, a seeming rebuke to the idea of the artist-as-genius.
In addition to making art, Hirst has launched stores that sell editioned works (Other Criteria), a restaurant (Pharmacy2) and even his own London museum (Newport Street Gallery).
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H4-6 Kew Damien Hirst abstract spot print signed limited edition
By Damien Hirst
Located in Bristol, GB
Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminium composite panel Edition of 34/75 Signed and numbered on a label affixed to the back Mint. Sold in the original HENI packaging HENI Editions ...
Panel, Giclée
Histidyl Screenprint, Contemporary Abstract Art, Signed and Framed
By Damien Hirst
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint in colours with metallic silver on wove paper Edition 62 of 150 (85 x 104.14 x 5.3 cm / 33.5 x 41 x 2 in) Signed and numbered on the front Condition on request Framed wit...
Screen
H18-4 Splendour Giclée Print on Aluminium, Contemporary, 21st Century
By Damien Hirst
Located in Bristol, GB
Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminium composite panel Edition of 69/180 85 x 140 cm (33.5 x 55.1 in) Hand-signed by the artist and numbered Mint. Minor imperfections may appear du...
Digital Pigment
H10-5 Taytu Betul Giclée Print on Aluminium, Signed Contemporary Art
By Damien Hirst
Located in Bristol, GB
Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite, screen printed with glitter Edition 1786 of 2,814 39.3 x 39.3 in Signed on a label affixed to the back Mint. Minor imperfections may ap...
Glitter, Giclée
H12-5 - 132 Beautiful, Very Undescribable, Almost Universal, Altogether Novel
By Damien Hirst
Located in Bristol, GB
Giclée print on poly-cotton artist canvas mounted on birch plywood stretcher Unique variant from an edition of 473 100 x 100 cm (39.4 x 39.4 in) Signed on the front Mint. Sold in...
Canvas, Plywood, Giclée
H8-4 Forever Giclée Print on Aluminium Panel, Signed Edition of 2573
By Damien Hirst
Located in Bristol, GB
Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite panel Edition 1660 of 2573 Digitally signed and numbered Mint. Sold in the original Heni packaging
Laminate, Panel, Giclée
Raffles H5-5, Giclee Print on Aluminium Panel by Damien Hirst. Edition of 100.
By Damien Hirst
Located in Malmö, SE
Damien Hirst (British, born 1965) Raffles (H5-5), 2018 Medium: Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminum panel Dimensions: 90 × 90 cm (35 × 35 in) No. 97 in an edition of 100. Hand-sig...
Panel, Giclée
Damien Hirst, The Currency Unique Print (H11) - Signed Print, Abstract Art
By Damien Hirst
Located in Hamburg, DE
Damien Hirst (British, born 1965) The Currency Unique Print (H11), 2022 Medium: Archival giclée print on paper Dimensions: 100 × 150 cm (39 2/5 × 59 1/10 in) Edition of 1000 unique p...
Giclée
Cannizaro H4-4 Damien Hirst Contemporary Art Diasec-mounted Giclée Print Street
By Damien Hirst
Located in Draper, UT
Damien Hirst Cannizaro H4-4 Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminium panel 920 x 1260 MM Edition size: 75 + 5 AP signed and numbered from an edition of 75 verso, published by HENI Editions; sheet: 92 x 126cm Damien Hirst first came to public attention in London in 1988 when he conceived and curated "Freeze," an exhibition in a disused warehouse that showed his work and that of his friends and fellow students at Goldsmiths College. In the nearly quarter of a century since that pivotal show (which would come to define the Young British Artists), Hirst has become one of the most influential artists of his generation. His groundbreaking works include The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), a shark in formaldehyde; Mother and Child Divided (1993) a four-part sculpture of a bisected cow and calf; and For the Love of God (2007), a human skull studded with 8,601 diamonds. In addition to his installations and sculptures, Hirst’s Spot paintings...
Metal
Damien Hirst, The Currency Unique Print (H11) - Signed Print, Abstract Art
By Damien Hirst
Located in Hamburg, DE
Damien Hirst (British, born 1965) The Currency Unique Print (H11), 2022 Medium: Archival giclée print on paper Dimensions: 100 × 150 cm (39 2/5 × 59 1/10 in) Edition of 1000 unique p...
Giclée
Damien Hirst, Savoy (H5-8) - Signed Print, Contemporary Art, Abstract Art
By Damien Hirst
Located in Hamburg, DE
Damien Hirst (British, born 1965) Savoy (H5-8), 2018 Medium: Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminum panel Dimensions: 88.9 × 88.9 cm (35 × 35 in) Edition 68 of 100: Hand-signed and ...
Giclée
You Can Feel So Alive Print, Abstract, Signed, 2016, Framed
By Damien Hirst
Located in Astoria, NY
Damien Hirst (English, b. 1965), "You Can Feel So Alive", Print in Colors on Wove Paper, 2016, from the Currency series, published by Heni, signed in pencil, titled, dated, and numbe...
Paint, Wove Paper
Once built for curbs and handrails, these boards now hang beside blue-chip works in major museums and collectors’ homes.
Fierceness and fragility coalesce as the British artist revisits a cherished motif — the butterfly.
