1989 Graduated, Goldsmiths College, London
Currently lives and works in Devon
Solo Exhibitions
2006 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
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 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
2006 Surprise Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Motion On Paper, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Summer Exhibition 2006, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Sixty Years of Sculpture in the Arts Council Collection, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Picture This, The Bargehouse, London
2005 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
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
2004 100 Artists See God, ICA, London
Intra-muros, MAMAC, Nice
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
La Collection D’Art Contemporain D’Agnes B, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
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
2003 Love Over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Bull’s Eye; Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst,Arken
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 Contemporain, Nimes
Limits of Perception, Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona
2001 Artist’s London: Holbein to Hirst, Museum of London, London
Art > Music, Rock Pop Techno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Beautiful Productions. Art to play, art to wear, art to own, Whitechapel, London
Field Day, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Public Offerings, The Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles
Century City, Tate Modern, London
2000 Hyper Mental, Kunsthaus Zurich/Hamburger Kunsthalle
Minding, Le Garage, Geneva
Out There, White Cube², Hoxton, London
Ant Noises, Saatchi Gallery, London
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
Fourth Wall. Turner on the Thames, Southbank, London
Fun de Siecle, Group Show, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall
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
Wall Projects: Damien Hirst, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Pandaemonium. The London Festival of Moving Image, LEA, London
The Colony Room 50th Anniversary Art Exhibition, A22 Projects, London
Modern British Art, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1997 Dimensions Variable, British Council Touring Exhibition
Sensation, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Brooklyn Museum, New York
Collection, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
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
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
Chaos, Madness - Moods in Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
1995 New Art in Britain, Museum Sztuki, Polland
Sings and Wonders, Kunsthaus, Zurich
A Bonnie Situation : Truth and Fiction, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London [winner]
Brilliant! Art from London, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1994 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
1992 Young British Artists, Saatchi Collection, London
Made for Arolsen, Schloss, Arolsen, Germany
London Portfolio, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
Avantgarde & Kampagne, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London
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