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At the beginning there was a dot. Circular, neither too large nor too small, unimposing, coloured. One dot, plain and simple. It stood on the wall of a warehouse in London, an area converted into an exhibition space. Other dots soon appeared around this dot, equidistant from one another, painted onto the wall. A square grid of coloured… 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 |
2012 | 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 |
Group Exhibitions (Selection): | |
2012 | 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 |
2012 | 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 |
2012 | 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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