British · 1965 – present
Damien Hirst
YBAConceptual
The definitive Young British Artist: a shark in formaldehyde, spot paintings, a diamond skull. Hirst made mortality into spectacle and became the most commercially successful artist of his generation.
Best-known works
- —The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991)
- —For the Love of God
- —Spot paintings
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