Damien Hirst

About Damien Hirst

Artist who defies convention and is a founder of the Young British Artists. He is well known for his works on death, such as"The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", which was part of a series in which he preserved whole and dissected animals in formaldehyde.

Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists, who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at $384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended. Death is a central theme in Hirst's works. He became famous for a series of artworks in which dead animals are preserved, sometimes having been dissected, in formaldehyde. The best-known of these was The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a 14-foot tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a clear display case. He has also made "spin paintings", created on a spinning circular surface, and "spot paintings", which are rows of randomly coloured circles created by his assistants.

Known for	Conceptual art, installation art, painting, sculpture
Notable work	The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, For the Love of God
Movement	Young British Artists
Born	Damien Steven Brennan, June 7, 1965, Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Education	Jacob Kramer College, Goldsmiths College

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Trivia

He created a British Union flag that was displayed at the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Summer Olympics.

Damien Hirst before fame

He attended Goldsmiths College, University of London, to study Fine Art. He set a record in 2008 when he sold his whole exhibition,"Beautiful Inside My Head Forever", for $198 million at Sotheby's.

Achievement of Damien Hirst

He created a British Union flag that was flown at the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Summer Olympics.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Damien Hirst family life

Damien was born to a mechanic father who abandoned his family when he was 12 years old. His mother, Mary Brennan, struggled to raise him as a single mother while working for the Citizens Advice Bureau. He married Maia Norman in 1992, and they have three children, Connor, Cyrus, and Cassius.

Associations of Damien Hirst

Donald Judd's work has been compared to his.

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