- Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector
Born: | 07 June 1965 Comment | How old is Damien Hirst in 2024? / Age: | 58 years
| Zodiac sign: | Gemini |
Damien Hirst Net worth 2024 (estimated)
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Damien Hirst facts
- He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists (or YBAs), who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s
- He is internationally renowned, and 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
- Death is a central theme in Hirst's works
- He became famous for a series of artworks in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) 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 (4
- 3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a vitrine (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
- In September 2008, he took an unprecedented move for a living artist by selling a complete show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby's by auction and bypassing his long-standing galleries
- The auction exceeded all predictions, raising £111 million ($198 million), breaking the record for a one-artist auction as well as Hirst's own record with £10
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