Damien Hirst

(British, born 1965)

skull exploded – the dream is dead by damien hirst

Damien Hirst

Skull Exploded – The Dream is Dead, 2007

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Biography

Timeline

1965
Born in Bristol, England
1985
Took a foundation course at Leeds School of Art, Leeds, England
1986 - 1989
BA, Fine Art, Goldsmith College, London, England
1988
Curated the student exhibition, Freeze, in a warehouse at Surrey Docks in East London, England
1994
DAAD Fellowship, Berlin, Germany
1995
Awarded with the Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London, England
Lives and works in London, England

Exhibitions

2013
All You Need IS LOVE, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Modern Print Masters Stock, The Watermill, Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland
Große Gefühle, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Germany
Don't Be Shy, Don't Hold Back, The Logan Collection At Sfmoma, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Sous influences: arts plastiques et psychotropes, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Damien Hirst: Entomology Cabinets and Paintings, Scalpel Blade - Paintings and Colour Charts, White Cube, Hong Kong
Group Show, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong
To Be With Art Is All We Ask, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
13 Rooms, Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney, Australia
2012
Tate Modern, London, England (solo)
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Paul Stolper Gallery, London, England (solo)
Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
Gagosian Gallery, 11 locations worldwide (solo)
White Cube, Bermondsey, London, England
2011
Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Bienal pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England
Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
Songeun Artspace, Seoul, Korea
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Leeds City Gallery, Leeds, England
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, England
Prada Foundation, Venice, Italy
Gagosian, Rome, Italy
Tate Britain, London, England (solo)
Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong
2010
Visual/Conceptual, National Center For Contemporary Art—Moscow Branch, Moscow, Russia
FYI – The Reflected Gaze Self Portraiture Today, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, USA
Theology, Philosophy, Medicine, Justice, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2009
Life, Death and Love, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
Requiem, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine (solo)
2008
You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil, White Cube, London, England (solo)
Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, Sotheby’s Auction, London, England
For the Love of God, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2007
Damien Hirst, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, USA (solo)
Damien Hirst, Galería Hilario Galguera and Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
New Religion, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, Italy (solo)
Beyond Belief, White Cube, London, England (solo)
Stations of the Cross, Essl Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria (solo)
New Religion, Paul Stolper Gallery, Wallspace, London, England (solo)
Superstition, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; London, England (solo)
Damien Hirst, Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA (solo)
2006
Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990–2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
How To Improve The World, Hayward Gallery, London, England
Surprise Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
Picture This, The Bargehouse, London, England
Corpus: Drawings 1981–2006, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
A Thousand Years & Triptychs, Gagosian Gallery, London, England (solo)
The Death of God: Towards a Better Understanding of a Life Without God Aboard the Ship of Fools, Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA
Motion On Paper, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, England
2005
A Selection of Works by Damien Hirst from Various Collections, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, USA (solo)
New Religion, Paul Stolper, London, England (solo)
Damien Hirst. Works on Paper, Robert Sandelson, London, England (solo)
Damien Hirst, Astrup Fearnley Museet fur Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway (solo)
Damien Hirst, Static Gallery, Liverpool, England (solo)
The Elusive Truth, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Damien Hirst: In A Spin, Gascoigne Gallery, Harrogate, England (solo)
Damien Hirst: Works on Paper, Andipa Gallery, London, England (solo)
Bock mit Inhalt, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Imageless Icons: Abstract Thoughts, Gagosian Gallery, London, England
Major Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, USA
2004
Damien Hirst, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany (solo)
The Agony and The Ecstasy: Selected Works from 1989–2004, Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy (solo)
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England
Intra-muros, Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Nice, France
Paper Democracy, Contemporary Art in Editions on Paper, Edifício Cultura Inglesa, São Paulo, Brazil
What’s Modern?, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
Turning Points: 20th Century British Sculpture, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Tate Britain, London, England
Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, London, England

Public Collections

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Neatherlands
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
Tate Modern, London, UK
Tate Britain, London, UK
Hiscox Art Projects, London, UK
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, USA

Literature

2012
Damien Hirst by Ann Gallagher
2011
The Complete Medicine Cabinets by Damien Hirst, James Frey, Arthur C Danto and Steve Jones
2009
Bracewell, Michael. Requiem I & II Slipcase Edition. London, UK; Kiev, Ukraine: Other Criteria / Pinchuk Art Centre, 2009 (catalogues)
2008
Bracewell M., Burn G. and Macaulay Michael. Beautiful Inside My Head Forever. London, UK: Sotheby's, 2008 (catalogue)
Fuchs, Rudi, Damien Hirst, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Will Self. Beyond Belief. London, UK: Other Criteria and Jay Jopling / White Cube, 2008 (catalogue)
Miller, Harland. You dig the tunnel, I’ll hide the soil. London, UK: Jay Jopling / White Cube, 2008
2007
Superstition. New York: Other Criteria / Gagosian Gallery, 2007 (catalogue)
Fuchs R., Kausmally T., Swain H. and Bill White. For the Love of God The Making of the Diamond Skull. London, UK: Other Criteria and Jay Jopling / White Cube, 2007
2006
The Elusive Truth. New York: Other Criteria / Gagosian Gallery, 2006 (catalogue)
The Death of God. London, UK: Other Criteria, 2006 (catalogue)
Baker, Simon. Corpus: Drawings 1981 - 2006. New York: Other Criteria / Gagosian Gallery, 2006 (catalogue)
Hirst, Damien,Burn, Gordon. I Want To Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now. London, UK: Other Criteria, 2006
Peyton-Jones J., Miller H. and Obrist H.U. In the darkest hour there may be light - Works from Damien Hirst. London, UK:Other Criteria / Serpentine Gallery, 2006 (catalogue)
New Religion. London, UK: Other Criteria / Paul Stolper Gallery (catalogue)
2005
The Elusive Truth, New Paintings. London, UK: Other Criteria, 2005 (catalogue)
2004
Shani, Annushka. From the Cradle to the Grave, Selected Drawings. London: Other Criteria, 2004
Cicelyn Eduardo and Codognato Mario. Damien Hirst. Edited by the Museo Archeologico Nazionale. Naples, Italy: Electa, 2004 (catalogue)
2003
Shani, Annushka. Romance in the Age of Uncertainty. London, UK: Jay Jopling / White Cube, 2003 (catalogue)
2001
Burn, Gordon. On the Way to Work - Damien Hisrst. London, UK: Faber and Faber, 2001