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Artists›Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst

1965

WA-00003177

Bristol, UK

Young British Artists

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

103

Works in Collection

208

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

100%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Influence Graph

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ294326

MoMA

Field Verification (7 fields)

3 cross-verified · 4 single-source

Birth yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
LocationArtsy + Gallery· 85%✓
WebsiteWikidata· 92%✓
BiographyGallery Gagosian + Gallery Generic+1· 80%
NationalityArtsy + Unknown· 85%
Primary mediumUnknown· 20%
DeceasedUnknown· 20%

Source Registry (7)

Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/damien-hirst
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/damien-hirst
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Phillips-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/damien-hirst
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
White-Cubehttps://whitecube.com/artists
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Gagosianhttps://gagosian.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/6905
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Aic Exhibitions
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred70%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Damien Hirst yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Young British Artists

Medium

—

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Art Institute of Chicago Victoria and Albert Museum Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (103)

The Hours: See the Light

2009 · Record cover

Victoria and Albert Museum

Monument to the Living and the Dead

2006 · Butterflies and household gloss paint on 2 canvases

support, each: 2135 x 2135 x 33 mm displayed: 2322 x 4645 x 120 mm frame: 2322 x 2322 x 120 mm frame: 2323 x 2325 x 120 mm

composition: 70 x 34" (177.8 x 86.4 cm); sheet: 80 x 43" (203.2 x 109.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

"Dot Boot"

2002 · a,b) cotton, leather

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Who’s Afraid of the Dark?

2002 · Flies and resin on canvas on fibreboard

image: 2140 x 1067 x 55 mm frame: 1135 x 2210 x 168 mm

Tate

Wheel within a wheel

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

Circles in the sand

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

Spinning wheel

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

Oh my God ... and for those really stubborn stains!!!!!??*

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

Orbital

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

Billy Mill roundabout

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

There’s more to life than making jam and having kids

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

Lavender baby

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

Spin me right round

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

I saw the half of the moon

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

Round

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

Liberty

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

Like a snowball down a mountain

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

All around the world

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

Global a Go-Go - for Joe

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

In-a-spin

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

Burning wheel

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

Ring-a-ring of roses

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

I get around

2002 · Etching on paper

support: 910 x 710 mm

Tate

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Artwork sources (5)

103 published of 155 catalogued · 109 with image

MoMA
52 publishedof 104 catalogued59 img
Tate
48 published48 img
Art Institute Chicago
1 published1 img
The Met
1 published
Victoria & Albert
1 published1 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 10)

10 entries · 1 sources

Orbital
2002 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Wheel within a wheel
2002 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree
2002 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Sandwich
1999 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Monument to the Living and the Dead
2006 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Beans & Chips
1999 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Dumpling
1999 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Spin me right round
2002 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Corned Beef
1999 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Trinity - Pharmacology, Physiology, Pathology
2000 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

11 assets

Artsy

Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons

Lance Armstrong Tour de France 2009 Stage 21

Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons

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Relationships

Peers & Context20

Carl Andreco-exhibited Richard Artschwagerco-exhibited Francis Baconco-exhibited Willem de Kooningco-exhibited Walter De Mariaco-exhibited Franz Klineco-exhibited

Movements1

Young British Artists

Collections13

Tate Art Institute of Chicago Christie's Victoria and Albert Museum Artsy Phillips

Institutional

Representation & Collections

Gallery

Gagosian

Represented by

White Cube

Current

In collection

Tate

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Victoria and Albert Museum

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Background

Education

Leeds Arts University

Visual Arts

Goldsmiths, University of London

Visual Arts

Winkler Prins

Visual Arts

Allerton Grange School

Visual Arts

Network

Related Artists

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Imageless Icons: Abstract Thoughts

2005