b. 1965
Damien Hirst is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the British art scene during the 1990s.
Hirst has created installations, sculptures, paintings, and drawings that examine the relationships between art and beauty, religion and science, and life and death. He is best known for his series of artworks in which dead animals including sharks, sheep and cows are preserved, sometimes having been dissected, in formaldehyde.
In 2015 Hirst opened the Newport Street Gallery in London.
