Damien Steven Hirst (; born Damien Steven Brennan, 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 animate artist, with his loads estimated at $384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was next to linked in imitation of the stasher Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the membership ended.
Death is a central theme in Hirst’s works. He became well-known 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 sure display case. He has after that made “spin paintings”, created upon a spinning round surface, and “spot paintings”, which are rows of randomly coloured circles created by his assistants.
In September 2008, Hirst made an unprecedented involve for a living player by selling a unadulterated show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby’s by auction and bypassing his long-standing galleries. The auction raised £111 million ($198 million), breaking the folder for a one-artist auction as without difficulty as Hirst’s own compilation with £10.3 million for The Golden Calf, an animal later than 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde.
In several instances back 1999, Hirst’s works have been challenged and contested as plagiarised. In one instance, after his sculpture Hymn was found to be next to based on a child’s toy, legal proceedings led to an out-of-court settlement.
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