Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst is the kind of artist who makes you stop and ask whether you're being pranked — and then slowly realize you kind of love it. A shark suspended in formaldehyde, a human skull encrusted with thousands of diamonds, spot paintings churned out by the dozen: everything he does is maximalist, confrontational, and weirdly hard to shake. He came up with the Young British Artists in the '90s and became the scene's ringmaster, winning the Turner Prize in 1995 and eventually becoming the UK's wealthiest living artist. Critics have been calling him overrated for thirty years and he's still the one they can't stop talking about. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living says more about mortality in its title alone than most artists manage in a career, and For the Love of God — that diamond skull — is genuinely haunting once you sit with it. Love him or roll your eyes, he owns a room the moment his work walks in.

Name (English)

Damien Hirst

Name (Japanese)

ダミアン・ハースト

Reading

だみあん・はーすと

Born

June 7, 1965 (age 61)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Snake

Origin

Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

Occupation

restaurateur / painter / conceptual artist / sculptor / illustrator

University

Leeds Arts University

Awards & achievements

• 1995 Turner Prize

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.damienhirst.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/damienhirst/
• Xhttps://x.com/hirst_official
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%9F%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88

Tags

• Avon
• restaurateur
• painter
• conceptual artist

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.