2016
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).
Find original Damien Hirst paintings, prints and other works on 1stDibs.
The Currency 7443. If I walked it in
By Damien Hirst
Located in Manchester, GB
Damien Hirst, The Currency 7443. If I walked it in (With original HENI Frame) Enamel paint, handmade paper, watermark, microdot, hologram, pencil 20 x 30 cm Hand-signed on the re...
Acrylic
The Currency 7383. so let’s go
By Damien Hirst
Located in Manchester, GB
Damien Hirst, The Currency 7383. so let’s go, 2016 (With original HENI Frame) Signed in pencil, titled, dated, and with the impression number 7383 on the reverse Enamel paint, handm...
Acrylic
The Currency 1109. tears off my skin
By Damien Hirst
Located in Manchester, GB
Damien Hirst, The Currency The Currency 1109. tears off my skin, 2016 (With original HENI Frame) Enamel paint, handmade paper, watermark, microdot, hologram, pencil 20 x 30 cm Si...
Mixed Media
The Currency 1462. Feed the king
By Damien Hirst
Located in Manchester, GB
Damien Hirst, The Currency 1462. Feed the king, 2016 (With original HENI Frame) Enamel paint, handmade paper, watermark, microdot, hologram, pencil 20 x 30 cm Hand-signed on the ...
Acrylic
HG66 - Playful Chaos Hidden Garden, 2023
By Damien Hirst
Located in Manchester, GB
Damien Hirst, HG66 - Playful Chaos Hidden Gardens, 2023 Oil on canvas presented in a white, hand-painted wooden frame 62.3 x 45 cm (24.5 x 17.7 in) Original artwork Hand-Signed by D...
Canvas, Oil
Pridinol (Artist's Proof) - Damien Hirst Spot Print, 2010, Excellent Condition
By Damien Hirst
Located in Manchester, GB
A rare opportunity to purchase an Artist's Proof of one of Damien Hirst's Spot prints. With a low edition size - 24 - and in mint condition, this artwork is an invaluable addition ...
Woodcut
You Can Feel So Alive Print, Abstract, Signed, 2016, Framed
By Damien Hirst
Located in Astoria, NY
Damien Hirst (English, b. 1965), "You Can Feel So Alive", Print in Colors on Wove Paper, 2016, from the Currency series, published by Heni, signed in pencil, titled, dated, and numbe...
Paint, Wove Paper
The Currency
By Damien Hirst
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Damien Hirst is arguably the most successful living British artist. He established his reputation, as both an artist and curator, in the 1990s with a new generation of creators known...
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
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
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
Carvacrol
By Damien Hirst
Located in Miami, FL
Damien Hirst Carvacrol Screenprint with diamond dust Signed to lower right Edition 92/150 Published by Other Criteria, London Hirst explains that, “mathematically, with the spot wo...
Paper, Glitter, Screen
H4-6 Kew Damien Hirst abstract spot print signed limited edition
By Damien Hirst
Located in Bristol, GB
Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminium composite panel Edition of 34/75 Signed and numbered on a label affixed to the back Mint. Sold in the original HENI packaging HENI Editions ...
Panel, Giclée
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.
