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Damien Hirst
CV
1965 Born, Bristol
1989 Graduated, Goldsmiths College, London
Currently lives and works in Devon
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Damien Hirst, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Texas
Damien Hirst, Galería Hilario Galguera and Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico
New Religion, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice
Beyond Belief, White Cube Masons Yard, London
Beyond Belief, White Cube Hoxton Square, London
Stations of the Cross, Essl Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna
New Religion, Paul Stolper Gallery and Wallspace, London
Superstition, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Superstition, Gagosian Gallery, London
Damien Hirst, Portland Art Museum, Oregon
2006 Corpus: Drawings 1981 - 2006, Gagosian Gallery, New York
A Thousand Years & Triptychs, Gagosian Gallery, London
The Death of God. Towards a Better Understanding of a Life Without God Aboard the Ship of Fools, Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico
2005 New Religion, Paul Stolper, London
Damien Hirst. Works on Paper, Robert Sandelson, London
Damien Hirst, Astrup Fearnley Museet fur Moderne Kunst, Oslo
Damien Hirst, Static Gallery, Liverpool
The Elusive Truth!, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Damien Hirst. In A Spin, Gascoigne Gallery, Harrogate
Damien Hirst – Works on Paper, Andipa Gallery, London
A Selection of Works by Damien Hirst from Various Collections, MFA Boston, Boston
2004 The Agony and The Ecstasy: Selected Works from 1989-2004, Archaeological Museum, Naples
2003 Romance In the Age of Uncertainty, White Cube, London
From the Cradle to the Grave: Selected Drawings, The 25th International Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana; The Marble Palace, Russian State Museum
Damien Hirst, The Saatchi Gallery, London
Damien Hirst In A Spin; The Action of the World on Things, Galerie Aurel Scheibler
2002 Damien Hirst’s art education, The Reliance, Leeds
2000 Damien Hirst, Sadler’s Wells, London
Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings, Gagosian Gallery, New York
1999 Pharmacy, Tate Gallery, London
1998 Damien Hirst, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
1997 The Beautiful Afterlife, Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Solo Exhibition, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo
1996 No Sense of Absolute Corruption, Gagosian Gallery, New York
1995 Pharmacy, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
Still, Jay Jopling/White Cube, London
Prix Eliette von Karajan ‘95, Max Gandolph-Bibliothek, Salzburg
1994 Making Beautiful Drawings, Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin
Currents 23, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
A Bad Environment for White Monchrome Paintings, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
A Good Environment for Coloured Monochrome Paintings, DAAD Gallery, Berlin
Pharmacy, Dallas Museum, Texas
1993 Visual Candy, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Damien Hirst, Galerie Jablonka, Cologne
1992 Where’s God Now, Jay & Donatella Chiat, New York
Marianne, Hildegard, Unfair/Jay Jopling, Cologne
Damien Hirst : Third International Istanbul Biennial, British Council, Istanbul
Pharmacy, Cohen Gallery, New York
1991 When Logics Die, Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Internal Affairs, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
In & Out of Love, Woodstock Street, London
Group Exhibitions
2008 You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil, White Cube, Hoxton Square and Shoreditch Town Hall, London
Art Machines, Museum Tinguely, Basel
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, LACMA, Los Angeles
Turner Prize: A retrospective, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Turner Prize: A retrospective, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London
2007 Play Back, ARC/Musée de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Art Machines, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
The Turner Prize: A Retrospective, Tate Britain, London
‘Re-Object’, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
Relationships: Contemporary Sculpture, York Art Gallery, York
Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Capital Museum, Beijing
Draw, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough
2006 How To Improve The World, Hayward Gallery, London
Surprise Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Eretica, Museum Sant’Anna, Palermo
Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Motion On Paper, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Kenny Schachter, London
Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Summer Exhibition 2006, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Dada’s Boys. Identity and Play in Contemporary Art, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
INFINITE PAINTING: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centro D’Arte Contemporanea, Passariano
Modern Time. Work, Machineries and Automation in the Arts of 1900, Commune di Genoa and Palazzo Ducale, Genoa
Drawing Inspiration, Abbot Hal Art Gallery, Kendal
Sixty Years of Sculpture in the Arts Council Collection, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Picture This, The Bargehouse, London
2005 Revelation. Reflecting British Art in the Arts Council Collection, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; The Lowry, Manchester
Summer Exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Vertigo, Meadow Gallery, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe
MO(NU)MENTS! Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Norway
London Calling. Y[oung] B[ritish] A[rtists] Criss-Crossed, Galleri Kaare Berntsen, Oslo
Bidibidobidiboo. La Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Piazza del Municipio, Guarene d’Alba, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Figure It Out, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York
An International Legacy: Selections from Carnegie Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Logical Conclusions, Pacewildenstein, New York
Major Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Imageless Icons: Abstract Thoughts, Gagosian Gallery, London
2004 100 Artists See God, ICA, London
What’s Modern?, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Paper Democracy. Contemporary Art in Editions on Paper, Edifício Cultura Inglesa, São Paulo
Printers Inc.: Recent British Prints, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester / Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, Taunton / Park Gallery, Falkirk
Intra-muros, MAMAC, Nice
Works and Days. Acquisitions for the Louisiana Collection 2000-2004, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
Monument To Now, Nea Ionia Exhibition Space, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
Den Haag Sculpture Project, Den Haag
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
Is One Thing Better Than Another, Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
The Stations of the Cross, Gagosian Gallery, London
La Collection D’Art Contemporain D’Agnes B, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
Daddy Pop, Anne Faggionato, London
Secrets of the ‘90s, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem
Symbolic Space & Repetition, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Tate Britain, London
Turning Points: 20th Century British Sculpture, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
Mike Kelley: The Uncanny, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, London
The Big Eat in Art, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
2003 Love Over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Outlook, Athens
Switch, Museum Dhont – Dhaenens, Belgium
Bull’s Eye; Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst,Arken
In Good Form; Recent Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th Venice Biennale
2002 It’s Unfair, Museum de Pavilijeons, Netherlands
Le Part de l’Autre, Carre d’Art Musée d’art Contemporaine, Nimes
Limits of Perception, Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona
To Eat or Not to Eat, CASA. Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca
Painting Matter, James Cohen Gallery, New York
Medicate, The Art Gallery and Museum, Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade, Royal Lemington Spa
The Rowan Collection. Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Self-Medicated, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
From Twilight to Dawn: Postmodern Art from the UBS PaineWebber Collection, The Frist Centre for Visual Arts, Nashville
Last Spring in Paris, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
2001 Artist’s London: Holbein to Hirst, Museum of London, London
Art –Tube 01, Café De Paris, London
Printers Inc., The Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Art > Music, Rock Pop Techno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Double Vision, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
Freestyle. Werke Aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Beautiful Productions. Art to play, art to wear, art to own, Whitechapel, London
Camera Works. The Phographic Impulse in Contemporary Art, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Warhol/Koons/Hirst: Cult and Culture, Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
Field Day, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Public Offerings, The Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles
Complementary Studies. Recent Abstract Painting, Harris Museum Art Gallery, Preston
Breaking the Mould: 20th Century British Sculpture from Tate, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Century City, Tate Modern, London
2000 Hyper Mental, Kunsthaus Zurich/Hamburger Kunsthalle
Lets Entertain, Walker Arts Centre, Minniapolis; Portland Art Museum; Centre Georges Pompidou; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico; Miami Art Museum
Balls, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Peter Blake About Collage, Tate Liverpool
After Life, 11 Duke Street, London
The History of the Turner Prize, 1984-1999 and People’s Show 2: Pictures selected by the public, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
Video Vibe. Art, Music and Video in the UK, The British School at Rome, Rome
Minding, Le Garage, Geneva
Zeitgenossen/Contemporarians:Malerei/Paintings, Galerie Editions Kunsthandel GmbH, Essen
On the Edge of the Western World, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, San Francisco
Out There, White Cube², Hoxton, London
Ant Noises, Saatchi Gallery, London
Art in Sacred Spaces, St. Stephen’s Church, London
Psycho, Anne Faggionato, London
Blue: borrowed and new, The New At Gallery, Walsall
Sincerely yours. British art from the 90s, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
1999 The History of the Turner Prize, ArtSway, Sway
Wallworks, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
Thin Ice, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Leeds 13 - Fine Arts. The Degree Show, University of Leeds Fine Art, Leeds
Now It’s My Turn to Scream. Works by Contemporary British Artists from the Logan Collection, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Fourth Wall. Turner on the Thames, Southbank, London
Fun de Siecle, Group Show, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall
Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Infra-slim spaces, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Group Exhibition, Rhyl Library, Museum and Art Centre, Liverpool
...On the sublime..., Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
1998 Potrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Benger Fabrik Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Wall Projects: Damien Hirst, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Fun de Siècle, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall
Pandaemonium. The London Festival of Moving Image, LEA, London
Fifty Years of British Sculpture: Works from the Arts Council Collection, Lothbury Gallery, London
Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray, 11 Duke Street, London
The Colony Room 50th Anniversary Art Exhibition, A22 Projects, London
London Calling. Contemporary British art from Italian private Collections, Part
II: The Eighties and Nineties, The British School at Rome/Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
Zone Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy
Inner Eye. Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Modern British Art, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
Noir, Triennale di Milano, Milan
Veronica’s Revenge(Lambert Art Collection, Geneva), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen
Wild/Life, -or-, The Impossibility of Mistaking Nature for Culture, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, North Carolina
1997 Dimensions Variable, British Council Touring Exhibition
Sensation, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Brooklyn Museum, New York
Picture Britanica. Art from Britain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide;Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand
Turning Up #4, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Package Holiday, Hydra Workshops, Hydra, Greece
Sunny Days / Critical Times. An Exhibition of Works from the Bohen Foundation’s Collection, The Bohen Foundation, New York
Veronica’s Revenge : Oeuvres photographiques de la Lambert Art
Collection, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London
A Ilha do Tesouro, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
The Lost Ark, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
1996 Life/Live, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Centro de Exposições do Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
Zeit-Spiegel I, Städtishces Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Other Men’s Flowers, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
Faustrecht der Freiheit (Volkmann Collection), Kunstsammlung Gera, Berlin; Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
Do It, Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna
Private View, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
Twentieth Century British Sculpture, Jeu de Paume, Paris
A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Spellbound, Hayward Gallery, London
Works on Paper, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Happy End, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
Chaos, Madness - Moods in Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
1995 Drawing the Line, (National Touring Exhibition from the South Bank Centre) Southampton City Art Gallery; Manchester City Art Gallery; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
New Art in Britain, Museum Sztuki, Polland
Sings and Wonders, Kunsthaus, Zurich
Minky Manky, South London Gallery , London; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
From Here, Waddington Galleries, London/Karsten Schubert, London
A Bonnie Situation : Truth and Fiction, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Laboratories, Galerie Art et Essai, University of Rennes, Brittany
The Reflected Image, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy
Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London [winner]
Brilliant! Art from London, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
British Art Show 4, National Touring Exhibition Organised by the Hayward Gallery, London; Manchester; Edinburgh; Cardiff
1994 Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, (curated by Damien Hirst),Serpentine Gallery, London; Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki; Kunstverein, Hannover; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Portalen, Copenhagen
Domestic Violence, Gio Marconi, Milan
Virtual Reality, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Cocido Y Crudo, Reina Sofia, Madrid
Nature Morte, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Art Unlimited, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery; Corner House, Manchester; South Bank Centre, London; Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich; Brighton University Gallery
Über – Leben, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
From Beyond the Pale, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1993 Here and Now : Twenty Three Years of the Serpentine Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, London
The 21st Century, Kunsthalle, Basel
The Nightshade Family, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
Aperto : Venice Biennial, Aperto Section, Venice
Displace, Cohen Gallery, New York
A Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London
1992 Young British Artists, Saatchi Collection, London
Made for Arolsen, Schloss, Arolsen, Germany
Moltiplici / Cultura, Rome
London Portfolio, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
Posthuman, Fondation Asher Edelman, Lausanne; Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Torino; Deichtorhallen, Chamburg
Group Exhibition, Luis Campaña Gallery, Frankfurt
Strange Developments, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
British Art, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Avantgarde & Kampagne, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London
Under Thirty, Galerie Metropol, Vienna
1991 Damien Hirst, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Louder Than Words, The Cornerhouse, Manchester
Broken English,Serpentine Gallery, London
1990 Modern Medicine, Building One, London
Gambler, Building One, London
1989 New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
1988 Freeze, Surrey Docks, London
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