2004
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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Untitled B (Spot Drawing) Damien Hirst
By Damien Hirst
Located in Bristol, GB
12 colour pigment print Edition 56 of 60 60 x 54 cm (23.6 x 21.3 in) Signed and numbered on the front Mint. Minor imperfections may appear due to the production process Albertina Edi...
Pigment
$16,026
H 35.44 in W 35.44 in
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
I Get Around, from In A Spin Series
By Damien Hirst
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Damien Hirst I Get Around, from In A Spin: The Action Of The World On Things 2002 Spin etching S: 36 x 28 in. I: 11 x 10 in. Edit...
Etching
$34,998
H 36.2 in W 49.6 in
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
$10,665
H 35.44 in W 35.44 in
H5-5 Raffles, Contemporary Digital Print, Signed, 90x90 cm
By Damien Hirst
Located in Bristol, GB
Diasec-mounted Giclee print on aluminium panel Edition 71 of 100 90 x 90 cm (35.4 x 35.4 in) Signed and numbered on the back Artwork in excellent condition. Minor imperfections may a...
Digital
Damien Hirst "Ciclopirox Olamine" Spots Print
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien Title: Ciclopirox Olamine Date: 2004 Medium: Etching on 350 gsm Hahnemuhle paper. Unframed Dimensions: 45" x 44.25" Framed Dimensions: 47.25" x 48.5" Signa...
Etching
$3,440
H 39.38 in W 39.38 in
H10-2 Nūr Jahān Giclée Print on Aluminium, Contemporary, 21st Century
By Damien Hirst
Located in Bristol, GB
H10-2 Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite, screen printed with glitter Edition 2019 of 3,041 100 x 100 cm Signed on a label affixed to the back Mint. Minor imperfections ma...
Giclée
Damien Hirst, Mescaline, 2014 lenticular print
By Damien Hirst
Located in Manchester, GB
Damien Hirst, Mescaline, 2014 Medium: Digital lenticular print in colours on PETG plastic Dimensions: 50.8 × 50.8 cm (20 × 20 in) Edition: Edition 35 of 100 Signature: Hand-signed b...
Archival Paper, Lenticular
Damien Hirst, The Currency Unique Print (H11)
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, The Currency Unique Print (H11)
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
Grey Spots Etching with Aquatint, Contemporary, Signed, Edition 2/115
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
Proofed and editioned by Peter Kosowicz at Thumbprint Editions Ltd, London, published by Paragon Press. Edition 2/115 The large-scale pop-art 'Grey Spots' Etching with Aquatint is a...
Etching, Aquatint
Damien Hirst Minimalist Spots Etching, 'Ethidium Bromide Aqueous Solution', 2005
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
Damien Hirst 'Ethidium Bromide Aqueous Solution' Spots Etching, 2005. Signed by the Artist on front. Artist proof aside from the edition of 65. Published by the Paragon Press, 2005. ...
Archival Ink, Etching, Aquatint
Horizontal 'Spots' II, Minimalist Woodcut Print, 2018
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
The minimalist's dream, the large-scale iconic contemporary pop art Horizontal 'Spots' with multi-color dots by Damien Hirst is one of fifty-five limited edition woodcut prints on So...
Woodcut
Damien Hirst Minimalist Woodcut Print, 'Vertical Spots' IV, 2016
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
The vertical Spots 'Gly-Gly-Ala' by Damien Hirst is a multi-color woodcut in his signature palette formed with series unique colors. This exquisite piece is created in a limited edit...
Woodcut
Horizontal 'Spots' I, Minimalist Woodcut Print, 2018
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
The Horizontal 'Spots' by Damien Hirst is a multi-color woodcut in his signature palette formed with series unique colors. This exquisite piece is created in a limited edition of onl...
Paper, Woodcut
Kindness Silkscreen Print by Damien Hirst, Contemporary, Signed, 2011
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
Damien Hirst, Kindness, 2011. Silkscreen. This stunning piece featuring a mandala pattern of vividly colored butterfly wings. This piece is an extremely limited edition of only 50, S...
Screen
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.
