Damien Hirst — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works794

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Black Sheep

Los Angeles County Museum of Art · Los Angeles, United States · Acquired 2024 · Accession M.2024.172 · Glass steel acrylic sheep and formaldehyde solution

Gift of Maria and Bill Bell

Doubt

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2020 · Accession 2020.108 · Glass, stainless steel, steel, nickel, brass, rubber, medical and surgical equipment

Gift of an anonymous donor

Still

Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 2015 · Accession 2015.142 · Glass, stainless steel, steel, nickel, brass, rubber, and medical, surgical, and laboratory equipment

Gift of Edlis Neeson Collection

The Spontaneous Lovers

Museum of Modern Art · New York City, United States · Acquired 2015 · Accession 527.2015.4 · Ink on lined paper

Gift of Catie and Donald Marron in honor of David Rockefeller on his 100th birthday

The Confused Lovers

Museum of Modern Art · New York City, United States · Acquired 2015 · Accession 527.2015.3 · Ink on lined paper

Gift of Catie and Donald Marron in honor of David Rockefeller on his 100th birthday

The Compromising Lovers

Museum of Modern Art · New York City, United States · Acquired 2015 · Accession 527.2015.2 · Ink on lined paper

Gift of Catie and Donald Marron in honor of David Rockefeller on his 100th birthday

The Committed Lovers

Museum of Modern Art · New York City, United States · Acquired 2015 · Accession 527.2015.1 · Ink on lined paper

Gift of Catie and Donald Marron in honor of David Rockefeller on his 100th birthday

Untitled 06 (from I Once Was What You Are, You Will Be What I Am portfolio)

Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 2013 · Accession P13269 · Photo-etching on paper

Presented by Charles Booth-Clibborn 2012

Untitled 05 (from I Once Was What You Are, You Will Be What I Am portfolio)

Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 2013 · Accession P13268 · Photo-etching on paper

Presented by Charles Booth-Clibborn 2012

Untitled 04 (from I Once Was What You Are, You Will Be What I Am portfolio)

Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 2013 · Accession P13267 · Photo-etching on paper

Presented by Charles Booth-Clibborn 2012

Untitled 03 (from I Once Was What You Are, You Will Be What I Am portfolio)

Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 2013 · Accession P13266 · Photo-etching on paper

Presented by Charles Booth-Clibborn 2012

Untitled 02 (from I Once Was What You Are, You Will Be What I Am portfolio)

Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 2013 · Accession P13265 · Photo-etching on paper

Presented by Charles Booth-Clibborn 2012

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$2.0K – $9.6M

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$555K

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$108K

330 priced paintings lots

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Apr 2026 · $24.4K

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Paintings: $108K medianSculpture/objects: $13.7K medianWorks on paper: $6.9K medianPhotographs: $16.9K medianUnclassified lots: $12.6K medianEditioned prints: $12.3K medianDecorative/non-core: $8.5K medianPosters/ephemera: $3.7K median

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Galleries18

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Prizes & Awards2

Turner Prize

Winner 1995

Turner Prize

Shortlisted 1992

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Education2

Goldsmiths, University of London

London, UK

Jacob Kramer College

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Publications25

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Catalogue Raisonné 1

Complete Medicine Cabinets Author

Abrams · 2011

Monograph 1

Requiem I and II Set Author

Abrams · 2009

Exhibition Catalog 10

Post Human

Phaidon Press · 2024

Cornucopia Author

Abrams · 2012

Dark Trees Author

Abrams · 2012

Souls Author

Abrams · 2012

Poisons + Remedies Author

Abrams · 2011

No Love Lost Author

Abrams · 2010

No Love Lost Blue Paintings Author

Abrams · 2010

Nothing Matters Author

Abrams · 2010

Sensation

Thames & Hudson · 2009

Traumfabrik Kommunismus Author

Hatje Cantz · 2003

Group Catalog 3

8 Minutes Author

Steidl · 2010

Ahead of the 21st century Author

Hatje Cantz · 2003

Collecting Contemporaries: The Fuhrman Collection

Phaidon Press

Survey 10

Screenprints: Victoria & Albert Museum

Thames & Hudson · 2025

Butterfly: Exploring the World of Lepidoptera

Phaidon Press · 2024

Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists

Thames & Hudson · 2024

Encounters with Artists

Thames & Hudson · 2023

Ocean: Exploring the Marine World

Phaidon Press · 2022

Artrage!: The Story of the BritArt Revolution

Thames & Hudson · 2021

Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art?

Thames & Hudson · 2020

Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists

Thames & Hudson · 2018

Artrage!: The Inside Story of the BritArt Revolution

Thames & Hudson · 2016

Sculpture Now

Thames & Hudson · 2013

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Current Exhibitions1

Alpha 137 Gallery

Landscapes, Cityscapes, Waterscapes and Skyscapes: paintings, works on paper and prints

Helen Frankenthaler, Damien Hirst, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Wolf Kahn, Peter Saul, Marsden Hartley, Paul Resika, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, Alex Katz, Richard Estes, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, FAILE, Mark di Suvero, Allan D'Arcangelo, Jennifer Losch Bartlett, Peter Blake, Christo, Peter Max, Sonia Gechtoff, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Martin Creed, Jonas Wood, Gregory Amenoff, Joe Brainard, Red Grooms, Billy Al Bengston, April Gornik, Gerald Laing, Paula Scher, Michael Lekakis, Paul Feeley, William T. Wiley, John Button, Hyde Solomon, Howard Kanovitz, George Trakas, Asa Cheffetz, Lynton Wells, Milton Glaser, Bob Stanley, Walter Darby Bannard, Katherine Porter, Lois Dodd, Richard Haas, Thelma Appel, Alan Cote, Norman Carton, Ben Wilson, Edward Giobbi, Franz Eggenschwiler, Javacheff Christo, David Shapiro (b. 1922), Kathan Brown, William Waitzman, Helen Siegl

Showplace Design and Antique Center, 40 W 25th St 2nd floor, New York, NY 10010, United States

Mar 12, 2026 — May 27, 2026

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There will be mud! Could my child (and buggy) survive a day at a sculpture park?

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Damien Hirst: Spring 2020 Collection of Works

Damien Hirst

521 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022, USA

May 8, 2020 — Jul 8, 2020

Portland Art Museum

Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms

Damien Hirst

1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205, USA

Mar 18, 2019 — Jul 8, 2019

Exhibitions Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms Mar 18, 2019 – Jul 8, 2019

#633 Arton Contemporary

Damien Hirst: Skulls & Spin Paintings

Damien Hirst

521 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022, USA

Nov 29, 2018 — Jan 29, 2019

#4,596 Designer´s Gallery

DAMIEN HIRST "Works from Schizophrenogenesis" - Ausgewählte Arbeiten

Damien Hirst

Drususgasse 7-11, 50667 Köln, Germany

Jul 7, 2018 — Aug 25, 2018

#2,935 Kuragin & Arutunyan Gallery

Damien Hirst

Lavrushinsky Ln, 10, Moskva, Russia, 119017

Mar 31, 2017 — Jun 1, 2017

Damien Hirst Cathedral Prints

Damien Hirst

Mar 12, 2009 — Apr 18, 2009

#108 Gow Langsford

For The Love of God, Laugh and Dollar Sign

Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol

Feb 5, 2008 — Feb 15, 2008

#2,042 Serge Sorokko Gallery

Damien Hirst: New Religion

Damien Hirst

1301 First Street

Mar 29, 2007 — May 20, 2007

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A Selection of Works by Damien Hirst from Various Collections

Damien Hirst

465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Jan 24, 2005 — Apr 24, 2005

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Art Fair Appearances30

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TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht

2026

Art Basel Hong Kong — Hong Kong

2025

Frieze Los Angeles — Los Angeles

2025

Art Basel Hong Kong — Hong Kong

2024

Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach

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artmonte-carlo — Monte Carlo

2024

Frieze Seoul — Seoul

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TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht

2024

ZONAMACO — Mexico City

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Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach

2023

artmonte-carlo — Monte Carlo

2023

ART SG — Singapore

2023

Frieze London — London

2023

Frieze Los Angeles — Los Angeles

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Frieze New York — New York

2023

Frieze Seoul — Seoul

2023

Seattle Art Fair — Seattle

2023

TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht

2023

Art Basel Hong Kong — Hong Kong

2022

Art Basel Hong Kong — Hong Kong

2020

Art Basel Hong Kong — Hong Kong

2019

Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach

2019

Seattle Art Fair — Seattle

2019

Art Basel Hong Kong — Hong Kong

2018

artgenève — Geneva

2018

The Armory Show — New York

2018

artgenève — Geneva

2017

Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach

2016

Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach

2015

Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach

2014

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La grande mostra su Cézanne e il collezionista Deodato Salafia ad Artbox su Sky Arte

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Gagosian to open new ground-floor space at 980 Madison Avenue with major Duchamp presentation

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'Marcel Duchamp' at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, United States on 25 Apr–27 Jun 2026

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"Ich glaube, ich habe viele Künstler nicht verstanden"

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Damien Hirst #2Iconic

Selected Works794

Museum Acquisitions

Previous Sales

Upcoming Auctions

For Sale

Other Museum Acquisitions12

Market7,069 auction results

Galleries18

Prizes & Awards2

Education2

Publications25

Catalogue Raisonné 1

Monograph 1

Exhibition Catalog 10

Group Catalog 3

Survey 10

Current Exhibitions1

Recent News20

Past Exhibitions25

Art Fair Appearances30

Recent Activity20