Damien Hirst, Esq's Biography

Damien Hirst, Esq's Professional Career

Career

artist; guest ed The Big Issue 1997; co fndr and owner Pharmacy 1998-2003, prop The White Hart Bar Ifracombe Devon 2004-; Prix Eliette von Karajan 1995, Turner Prize 1995; Solo Exhibitions incl: In & Out of Love (Woodstock Street London) 1991, When Logics Die (Emmanuel Perrotin Paris) 1991, Internal Affairs (ICA London) 1991, Where's God Now? (Jay & Donatella Chiat NY) 1992, Marianne, Hildegard (Unfair/ Jay Jopling Cologne) 1992, Pharmacy (Cohen Gall NY) 1992, Visual Candy (Regen Projects LA) 1993, Damien Hirst (Galerie Jablonka Cologne) 1993, Making Beautiful Drawings (Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts Berlin) 1994, Currents 23 (Milwaukee Art Museum) 1994, A Bad Environment for White Monochrome Paintings (Mattress Factory Pittsburgh) 1994, A Good Environment for Coloured Monochrome Paintings (DAAD Gall Berlin) 1994, Pharmacy (Dallas Museum) 1994, Pharmacy (Kukje Gall Seoul) 1995, Still (White Cube/Jay Jopling London) 1995, Prix Eliette von Karajan '95 (Max Gandolph-Bibliothek Salzburg) No Sense of Absolute Corruption (Gagosian Gall NY) 1996, The Beautiful Afterlife (Bruno Bischofberger Zürich) 1997, Damien Hirst (Astrup Fearnley Museum Oslo) 1997, Damien Hirst (Southampton City Art Gall) 1998, Pharmacy (Tate Gall London) 1999, Damien Hirst (Sadler's Wells London) 2000, Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings (Gagosian Gall NY) 2000, Damien Hirst's art education (The Reliance Leeds) 2002, Damien Hirst in a Spin; The Action of the World on Things (Galerie Aurel Scheibler) 2003, Damien Hirst (The Saatchi Gall London) 2003, From the Cradle to the Grave: Selected Drawings (25th Int Biennale of Graphic Arts Ljubljana and The Marble Palace St Petersburg) 2003, Romance in the Age of Uncertainty (White Cube London) 2003, The Agony and The Ecstasy: Selected works 1989-2004 (Archaeological Museum Naples) 2004, A Selection of Works by Damien Hirst from Various Collections (MFA Boston) 2005, Damien Hirst - Works on Paper (Andipa Gall London) 2005, Damien Hirst. In a Spin (Gascoigne Gall Harrogate) 2005, The Elusive Truth! (Gagosian Gall NY) 2005, Damien Hirst (Static Gall Liverpool 2005), Damien Hirst (Astrup Fearnley Museet fur Moderne Kunst Oslo) 2005, In the darkest hour there may be light: works from Damien Hirst's murderme collection (Serpentine Gall London) 2006; Group Exhibitions incl: Freeze (Surrey Docks London) 1988, New Contemporaries (ICA London) 1989, Third Eye Centre Glasgow 1989, Modern Medicine (Building One London) 1990, Broken English (Serpentine Gall London) 1991, Young British Artists (Saatchi Collection London) 1992, British Art (Barbara Gladstone Gall NY) 1992, Turner Prize Exhbn (Tate Gall London) 1992, The 21st Century (Kunsthalle Basel) 1993, Aperto: Venice Biennial (Aperto Section Venice) 1993, Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away (Serpentine Gall London and tour) 1994, Virtual Reality (Nat Gall of Aust Canberra) 1994, Art Unlimited (Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow and tour) 1994, Drawing the Line (Southampton City Art Gall, Manchester City Art Gall, Ferens Art Gall Hull, Whitechapel Art Gall London) 1995, Turner Prize Exhbn (Tate Gall London) 1995, British Art Show 4 (touring exhbn) 1995, Spellbound (Art and Film exhbn, Hayward Gall London) 1996, A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture (ICA London) 1996, Dimensions Variable (British Cncl touring exhbn) 1997, Sensation (Royal Acad of Arts London) 1997, Picture Britannica: Art from Britain (Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Art Gall of S Aust Adelaide, Te Papa Wellington) 1997, Wall Projects (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago) 1998, London Calling (British Sch of Rome/Galleria Nazionale d'Art Moderne Guarene) 1998, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray (11 Duke Street London) 1998, Modern British Art (Tate Gall Liverpool) 1998, On the Sublime (Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art Malmö) 1999, Examining Pictures (Whitechapel Art Gall London, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago) 1999, Fourth Wall (South Bank London) 1999, The History of the Turner Prize (ArtSway Sway) 1999, Sincerely Yours: British Art from the 90's (Astrup Fearnley MOMA Oslo) 2000, Art in Sacred Spaces (St Stephen's Church London) 2000, Out There (White Cube 2 London) 2000, Ant Noises (Saatchi Gall London) 2000, Video Vibe: Art, Music and Video in the UK (British Sch of Rome) 2000, The History of the Turner Prize 1983-1999 and People's Show 2: Pictures selected by the public (Victoria Art Gall Bath) 2000, Peter Blake: About Collage (Tate Gall Liverpool) 2000, Century City (Tate Modern London) 2001, Breaking the Mould: 20th Century British Sculpture from Tate (Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gall) 2001, Public Offerings (Museum of Contemporary Arts LA) 2001, Warhol/Koons/Hirst: Cult and Culture Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection (Aspen Art Museum Colorado) 2001, Beautiful Productions. Art to play, art to wear, art to own (Whitechapel Art Gall London) 2001, Art > Music, Rock Pop Techno (MOMA Sydney) 2001, Artist's London: Holbein to Hirst (Museum of London) 2001,The Rowan Collection. Contemporary British & Irish Art (Irish MOMA Dublin) 2002, Le Part de l'Autre (Carre d'Art Musée d'aer Contemporaine Nimes) 2002, In Good Form: Recent Sculpture from the Arts Cncl Collection (Yorkshire Sculpture Park Wakefield) 2003, Dreams and conflicts: the Dictatorship of the Viewer (50th Venice Biennale) 2003, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Tate Britain London) 2004, Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) (Solomon R Guggenheim Museum NY) 2004, The Stations of the Cross (Gagosian Gall London) 2004, Summer Exhibition (Royal Acad of Arts London) 2004, Den Haag Sculpture Project 2004, Imageless Icons: Abstract Thoughts (Gagosian Gall London) 2005, Logical Conclusions (Pacewildenstein NY) 2005, An International Legacy: Selections from Carnegie Museum of Art (Columbus Museum of Art) 2005, Figure It Out (Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art NY) 2005

Damien Hirst, Esq's Publications

Books and Publications

Works in Collections incl: Saatchi Gall London, Tate Gall London, Br Cncl, Arts Cncl, Contemporary Art Museum Kanazawa, Denver Art Museum, Deste Fndn for Contemporary Art Athens, Deutsche Bank London, Fondazione Prada Milan, Hirshhorn Museum Washington, MOMA NY, Samsung Museum Seoul, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco MOMA, Scottish Nat Gall of Modern Art Edinburgh, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Weltkunst Fndn Dublin, Yale Center for British Art New Haven; Film dir Breath (Beckett on Film Channel 4 and RTÉ) 2001; Books I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now (1997), On the Way to Work (with Gordon Burn, 2001)

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