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The Empresses A recurring theme in Damien Hirst’s works, the butterfly, epitomises beauty and transience. In his most recent five-part series, the old master of the Young British Artists… Read more
Intro Bio Exhibitions
1965 | Born in Bristol, UK |
1986-1989 | Goldsmith College „Fine Arts“ |
1988 | Curator of the exhibition „Freeze“, Surrey Docks, London, UK |
1990 | Curator of the exhibition „Modern Medicine“, Building One, London, UK |
2007 | The artwork “For the Love of God” is sold for € 75 Million and is the most expensive work of contemporary art according to British media reports |
Lives in Devon and has Studios in London, Gloucester and Devon, UK |
1995 Turner Prize |
2023 | Damien Hirst: Oranges and Lemons, Galerie Bastian, Berlin, Germany 2022 Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan |
Damien Hirst: Myths, Legends and Monsters, Gagosian Gallery, Gstaad, Switzerland | |
Damien Hirst: Forgiving and Forgetting, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA | |
2021 | Damien Hirst: His Own Worst Enemy, White Cube, Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
Damien Hirst: Forgiving and Forgetting, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy | |
Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France | |
Damien Hirst: Cathedrals Built on Sand, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France | |
2020 | Damien Hirst: End of a Century, Newport Street Gallery, London, UK |
Selections from The Last Supper, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA | |
2019 | Damien Hirst: Mandalas, White Cube, London, UK |
Sneaker Collab, MUDAC, Musée de design et d'arts appliques contemporains ,Lausanne, Switzerland | |
Damien Hirst, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK | |
Damien Hirst: At Play, Gormleys Fine Art, Dublin, Irland | |
Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms, Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA | |
2018 | Damien Hirst: Works from Schizophrenogenesis - Selected works, Galerie Boisséree, Cologne, Germany |
Damien Hirst: Colour Space Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA | |
Damien Hirst: Mickey and Minnie, Lots of Spots, A Big Heart and A Butterfly or Two ,Gormleys Fine Art, Belfast , UK | |
Damien Hirst: The Veil Paintings, Los Angeles, USA | |
Damien Hirst: Schizophrenogenesis Limited Edition Book Launch, Paul Stolper, London, UK | |
Damien Hirst, Galerie Bastian, Berlin, Germany | |
2017 | Damien Hirst: Visual Candy and Natural History, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy | |
Damien Hirst, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia | |
Damien Hirst, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand | |
2016 | Damien Hirst: New Religion, Paul Stolper, Skopje, Macedonia |
2015 | Psalm Prints by Damien Hirst, Other Criteria, New York, USA |
Damien Hirst, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway | |
Damien Hirst x Lalique: ETERNAL ,Other Criteria, New York, USA | |
Damien Hirst, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany | |
Psalm Prints by Damien Hirst, Other Criteria, New York, USA | |
Damien Hirst: LOVE, Paul Stolper, London, UK | |
2014 | Damien Hirst: Black Scalpel Cityscapes, White Cube, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
Damien Hirst: Schizophrenogenesis, Paul Stolper, London, UK | |
2013 | Damien Hirst: Freedom not Genius, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia |
Damien Hirst: He Tried to Internalise Everything, 1992-1994, The New Art Gallery Walsall ,Walsall, UK | |
Damien Hirst: Entomology Cabinets and Paintings, Scalpel Blade Paintings and Colour Charts, White Cube, Hong Kong, Hong Kong | |
Damien Hirst: The Spot Woodcuts, Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, New York, USA | |
2012 | Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine |
Damien Hirst: Nucleohistone, Mattatoio Rome, Rome, Italy | |
Damien Hirst. Retrospective at Tate Modern, London, UK | |
Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011, Gagosian Gallery, New York, Beverly Hills, London, Paris, Rom, Genf, Athen, Hong Kong | |
Damien Hirst Donation, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Dänemark | |
2011 | Damien Hirst: Artist Rooms, Tate Britain, London, UK |
2010 | Cornucopia, Musée océanographique de Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco |
For the Love of God, Palazzo Vecchio, Florenz, Italien | |
2009 | Nothing Matters, White Cube/ Huxton Square/ Mason Yard, London, UK |
2008 | Requiem, PinchukArtCentre, Kiew, Ukraine For the Love of God, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Niederlande |
Damien Hirst, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, USA | |
2007 | Damien Hirst: Life, Death and Love, Kunsthuset Kabuso, Øystese, Norwegen |
Damien Hirst: Four Works from the Board Art Foundation, Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA | |
2006 | The Death of God – Towards a Better Understanding of a Life Without God Aboard the Ship of Fools, Galeria Hilario Galguera, Mexico City, Mexiko |
2005 | Damien Hirst, Astrup Fearnley Museet fur Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norwegen |
A Selection of Works by Damien Hirst from Various Collections, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA | |
2004 | The Agony and the Ecstasy: Selected Works from 1989 – 2004, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Neapel, Italien |
2003 | Romance in the Age of Uncertainty, White Cube/Hoxton Square, London, UK |
2022 | Best of British, Maddox Gallery, London, UK |
Take Care: Art and Medicine, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland | |
Crown Jewels: Best of British Contemporary, Gormleys Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland | |
2021 | Winter Contemporary, Maddox Gallery, Gstaad, Switzerland |
The Art of Food, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, USA | |
Ti Con Zero, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy | |
The Hour Forever, Dellasposa, London, UK | |
Stützmappe and Bonobos: Synergies, BORCH Editions & Studio, Kopenhagen, Denmark | |
Summer Contemporary, Maddox Gallery, London, UK; Gstaad, Switzerland | |
Neo-Abstraction: Celebrating a Gift of Contemporary Art from John and Sara Shlesinger, Georgia Museum of Art, Athen, USA | |
Sante D'Orazio: Priests, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Hildesheim, Germany | |
POP Power from Warhol to Koons, Figge Art Museum, Davenport; David Owsley Museum of Art, Muncie, USA | |
Within Reach: Masters' Editions, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
Signatures (X), Smallville, Neuchatel, Switzerland | |
Healing Power, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
2020 | Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center’s Collections, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA |
Artcels Presents 'XXI’, HOFA Gallery, Mykonos, Greece | |
Colección Jumex: On The Razor’s Edge, Museo Jumex , Mexico City, Mexiko | |
Lichtblicke, Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany | |
Animals in Art, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark | |
Mythologies: The Beginning And End Of Civilizations, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark | |
Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway | |
Animals in Art, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark | |
2019 | Accrochage, Galerie Boisséree, Köln, Germany |
Objects of Wonder: From Pedestal to Interaction, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark | |
One Way Ticket to Mars, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands | |
Stützmappe, BORCHs Butik ,Kopenhagen, Denmark | |
Objects of Wonder. British Sculpture from the Tate Collection 1950s – Present, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Germany | |
Modern and Contemporary Works from the Permanent Collection, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, USA | |
2018 | Au rendez-vous des amis, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany |
The Last Image. Photography and Death, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany | |
Do it, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. Kalamazoo, USA | |
Gonzalo Torné & Quico Rivas, CAC Málaga, Malaga, Spain | |
Ellos y nosotros (Them and Us), Es Baluard, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Palma De Mallorca, Spain | |
Sights & Sounds: Art, Nature, and the Senses, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, USA | |
Memory Palace, White Cube, London, UK | |
Democracy Anew?, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine | |
Walking On The Fade Out Lines, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
WOW!, Leopold Museum ,Vienna, Austria | |
Brit Art, Rhodes Contemporary Art, London, UK | |
2017 | Jewellery by Artists: From Picasso to Koons. Diane Venet’s Collection, LNMM, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia |
Like a Moth to a flame, OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin, Italy | |
We Are Not Alone, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | |
Beyond Limits, Sotheby's London, UK | |
Giving back to Nature, Opera Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon | |
Colori. The Emotions of Color in Art, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy | |
Palm Springs Popup, Ikon Ltd., Santa Monica, USA | |
2016 | Art Against Art, Parkett Editions, Zürich, Switzerland |
Creature, The Broad, Los Angeles, USA | |
In the Cage of Freedom, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany | |
Corpus: Anatomical Theatre, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia | |
Skulls, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria, South Africa | |
Curated By (?), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy | |
Sculpture on the Move 1946–2016, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland | |
Audacious: Contemporary Artists Speak Out, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA | |
LIFE ITSELF, Moderna Museet, Stockholm ,Stockholm, Sweden | |
2015 | The World is Made of Stories, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway |
Wintertime, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany | |
Maurizio Nannucci: Top Hundred, Museion, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy | |
Beyond Limits: The Landscape of British Sculpture 1950-2015, Sotheby's London, UK | |
What We Call Love: From Surrealism to Now, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland | |
The Rise of Sneaker Culture, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA | |
Fire and Forget on Violence, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany | |
Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK | |
2014 | Peter Marino: One Way, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA |
CORNUCOPIA, Parkett Editions, Zürich, Switzerland | |
Beyond and Between, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea | |
Art Multiples, 313 Art Project, Seoul, South Korea | |
14 Rooms, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland | |
Second Life, KMAC Museum ,Louisville, USA | |
Front Row, CFA, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany | |
2013 | Love, Now More Than Ever, Mori Art Museum, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan |
The Gesture and the Sign, White Cube, São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
2012 | Don't Be Shy, Don't Hold Back ,SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ,San Francisco, California, USA |
ARTandPRESS - Art. Truth. Reality., ZKM | Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
12 Rooms, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany | |
Made in Britain : Modern Art from the British Council Collection, Benaki Museum of Greek Culture, Athen, Greece | |
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA | |
Art and Press, ZKM/ Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Deutschland | |
12 Rooms: Ruhr Triennale 2012, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Deutschland | |
British Design 1948 – 2012: Innovation in the Modern Age, Victoria Albert Museum, London, UK | |
Made in Britain: Modern Art from the British Council Collection, Benaki Museum, Athen, Griechenland | |
2011 | O’Clock: time design, design time, Triennale di Milano, Mailand, Italien |
In the Name of the Artists – American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Bienal pavilion, Sao Paulo, Brasilien | |
Selected works from the Francois Pinault Collection: Agony and Ecstasy, ongeun Artspace, Seoul, Korea | |
Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan | |
Fondazione Prada _ Ca'Corner della Regina, Prada Foundation, Venedig, Italien | |
The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spanien | |
2010 | Plus Ultra, Macro, Rom, Italien |
Have You Ever Really Looked at the Sun?, Haunch of Vension, Berlin, Deutschland | |
I LOVE YOU, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Arhus, Dänemark | |
C’est la vie: Vanités de Caravage à Damien Hirst, Musée Maillol, Paris, Frankreich | |
2009 | BAROCK – Art, Science, Faith and Technology in the Contemporary Age, MADRE, Neapel, Italien |
Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan | |
Pop Life, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2010 Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Deutschland | |
15 Years of Collecting - Against the Grain, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Deutschland | |
Spridd isolerad konst (Scattered and Isolated Art), Kalmar Art Museum, Kalmar, Schweden | |
2008 | Drei. Das Triptychon In Der Moderne, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Deutschland |
Art, Price and Value – Contemporary art and the market, Palazzo Strozzi, Florenz, Italien | |
Statuephilia, British Museum, London, UK | |
END GAME – British Contemporary Art from the Chaney Family Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA | |
Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK | |
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, MOMA, New York, USA | |
The Inaugural Installation, Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA, Los Angeles, USA | |
2007 | Art Machines – Machine Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/M, Deutschland |
Reflection, PinchukArtCentre, Kiew, Ukraine Turner Prize: A Retrospective, Tate Britain, London, UK | |
Contemporary and Cutting Edge: Pleasures of Collecting, Part III, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, USA | |
David Bailey & Damien Hirst: The Stations of the Cross, Essl Museum of Contemporary Art, Wien, Österreich | |
RE-OBJECT, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Österreich | |
Draw, Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesborough, UK | |
2006 | Aftershock: Contemporary British Art, 1990-2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, Peking, China |
The François Pinault Collection, a Post-Pop Selection, Palazzo Grassi, Venedig, Italien | |
RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki & Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum, USA | |
Visitaciones, Museo de San Carlos, Mexico City, Mexiko | |
Into Me / Out of Me, PS1 MOMA, New York, USA | |
Tokyo Blossoms: Deutsche Bank Collection meets Zaha Hadid, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan | |
2005 | Rückkehr ins All/ Return to Space, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Deutschland |
Douglas Gordon’s The Vanity of Allegory, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Deutschland | |
Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection, MOMA, New York, USA | |
Prague Biennale 2, Prag, Tschechien | |
2004 | From Moore to Hirst: Sixty Years of British Sculpture, National Museum Of Art, Bukarest, Rumänien |
Intra-muros, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nizza, Frankreich | |
Works and Days: Acquisitions for the Louisiana Collection 2000-2004, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Dänemark | |
Monument To Now, Nea Ionia Exhibition Space, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athen, Griechenland | |
La Collection d’Art Contemporain D’Agnes B, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, Frankreich | |
Secrets of the ‘90s, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, Niederlande | |
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Tate Britain, London, UK | |
Turning Points: 20th Century British Sculpture, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Teheran, Iran | |
2003 | Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50. Biennale Venedig, Italien |
1997 | Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
1988 | Freeze, Surrey Docks, London, UK |
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