Damien Hirst

Quick Facts

Full Name	Damien Hirst
Occupation	Painter
Date Of Birth	Jun 7, 1965(1965-06-07)
Age	59
Birthplace	Bristol
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Gemini

Damien Hirst Biography

Damien Hirst is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on June 7, 1965 in Bristol, England, United Kingdom. Unconventional artist and a prominent artist who was a member of Young British Artists. He is known for his death-themed artworks like “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living,” which was part of a collection of paintings that he created in which he preserved entire and dissected animals with formaldehyde.

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He went to an exhibition of work by Francis Davison, staged by Julian Spalding at the Hayward Gallery in 1983. Davison created abstract collages from torn and cut coloured paper which, Hirst said, “blew me away”, and which he modelled his own work on for the next two years.

He worked for two years on London building sites, then studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London (1986–89), although again he was refused a place the first time he applied. In 2007, Hirst was quoted as saying of An Oak Tree by Goldsmiths’ senior tutor, Michael Craig-Martin: “That piece is, I think, the greatest piece of conceptual sculpture. I still can’t get it out of my head.” While a student, Hirst had a placement at a mortuary, an experience that influenced his later themes and materials.

He was the son of an auto mechanic who left his family at the age of 12. Damien was twelve years old. The mother of Damien, Mary Brennan, struggled to raise her son as a single mom as she worked for his employer, the Citizens Advice Bureau. He was married Maia Norman in 1992 and the couple Maia are blessed with three children with the names of Connor, Cyrus and Cassius.

Damien Hirst Net Worth

Damien Hirst is one of the richest Painter from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Damien Hirst 's net worth $300 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a the fine arts of Art in the Goldsmiths University of London. He sold his entire 2008 exhibition, “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever,” at Sotheby’s for $198 million. This was a record.

He designed an British Union flag that was used during the closing ceremony during the London Summer Olympics in 2012. London Summer Olympics.

Damien Steven Hirst (/h ɜːr s t / ; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs), who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom’s richest living artist, with his wealth valued at £215m in the 2010 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.

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Hirst has admitted serious drug and alcohol problems during a ten-year period from the early 1990s: “I started taking cocaine and drink… I turned into a babbling fucking wreck.” During this time he was known for his wild behaviour and eccentric acts, including for example, putting a cigarette in the end of his penis in front of journalists.

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Damien Ranked on the list of most popular Painter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Damien Hirst celebrates birthday on June 7 of every year.

A Thousand Years (1990) contains an actual life cycle. Maggots hatch inside a white minimal box, turn into flies, then feed on a bloody, severed cow’s head on the floor of a claustrophobic glass vitrine. Above, hatched flies buzz around in the closed space. Many meet a violent end in an insect-o-cutor; others survive to continue the cycle. A Thousand Years was admired by Bacon, who in a letter to a friend a month before he died, wrote about the experience of seeing the work at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Margarita Coppack notes that “It is as if Bacon, a painter with no direct heir in that medium, was handing the baton on to a new generation.” Hirst has openly acknowledged his debt to Bacon, absorbing the painter’s visceral images and obsessions early on and giving them concrete existence in sculptural form with works like A Thousand Years.

What is Damien Hirst most expensive piece of art?

In June of 2007, Hirst gained the world record for the most expensive work of art sold at auction by a living artist: Lullaby Spring , a 3-metre wide cabinet filled with over 6,000 pills, sold for US$19.2 million.

What is Damien Hirst famous for?

Damien Hirst
Known for| Conceptual art installation art painting sculpture

Is Damien Hirst a genius?

Hirst has not only influenced many of his peers; he is among the small number of artists who have spawned major artistic movements, and influenced important cultural institutions.

How much does a Damien Hirst cost?

Over the last ten years sale results for Hirst are dominated by works estimated under $10,000, with the second largest category being $10,000–50,000 , suggesting that the market for his editions is stronger than ever, and more robust than even that of his original paintings.

Why is Damien Hirst's art so expensive?

Why is art so expensive? The short answer is that most art isn’t. A few living artists — Koons, Damien Hirst, and Yayoi Kusama, to name a few — are rich and famous, but most are not and never will be. To break into the market, an artist first needs to find a gallery to represent them, which is harder than it sounds.