1965 born in Bristol
1989 Graduated, Goldsmiths College, London
Currently lives and works in Devon

1999 Pharmacy, Tate Gallery, London
1998 Damien Hirst, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
1997 The Beautiful Afterlife, Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
1997 Solo Exhibition, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo
1996 No Sense of Absolute Corruption, Gagosian Gallery, New York
1995 Pharmacy, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
1995 Still, Jay Jopling/White Cube, London
1995 Prix Eliette von Karajan ‘95, Max Gandolph-Bibliothek, Salzburg
1994 Making Beautiful Drawings, Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin
1994 Currents 23, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
1994 A Bad Environment for White Monchrome Paintings, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
1994 A Good Environment for Coloured Monochrome Paintings, DAAD Gallery, Berlin
1994 Pharmacy, Dallas Museum, Texas
1993 Visual Candy, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
1993 Damien Hirst, Galerie Jablonka, Cologne
1992 Where’s God Now, Jay & Donatella Chiat, New York
1992 Marianne, Hildegard, Unfair/Jay Jopling, Cologne
1992 Damien Hirst : Third International Istanbul Biennial, British Council, Istanbul
1992 Pharmacy, Cohen Gallery, New York
1991 When Logics Die, Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
1991 Internal Affairs, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1991 In & Out of Love, Woodstock Street, London

2000 Balls, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2000 After Life, 11 Duke Street, London
2000 The History of the Turner Prize, 1984-1999 and People’s Show 2:
2000 Pictures selected by the public, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
2000 Video Vibe. Art, Music and Video in the UK, The British School at Rome, Rome
2000 Minding, Le Garage, Geneva
2000 On the Edge of the Western World, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, San Francisco
2000 Out There, White Cube², Hoxton, London
2000 Ant Noises, Saatchi Gallery, London
2000 Art in Sacred Spaces, St. Stephen’s Church, London
2000 Psycho, Anne Faggionato, London
2000 Blue: borrowed and new, The New At Gallery, Walsall
2000 Sincerely yours. British art from the 90s, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
1999 The History of the Turner Prize, ArtSway, Sway
1999 Wallworks, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
1999 Thin Ice, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1999 Leeds 13 - Fine Arts. The Degree Show, University of Leeds Fine Art, Leeds
1999 Now It’s My Turn to Scream. Works by Contemporary British Artists from the Logan Collection, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
1999 Fourth Wall. Turner on the Thames, Southbank, London
1999 Fun de Siècle, Group Show, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall
1999 Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1999 Infra-slim spaces, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
1999 Group Exhibition, Rhyl Library, Museum and Art Centre, Liverpool
1999 ...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
1998 UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Benger Fabrik Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
1998 Wall Projects: Damien Hirst, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1998 Fun de Siècle, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall
1998 Pandaemonium. The London Festival of Moving Image, LEA, London
1998 Fifty Years of British Sculpture: Works from the Arts Council Collection, Lothbury Gallery, London
1998 Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray, 11 Duke Street, London
1998 The Colony Room 50th Anniversary Art Exhibition, A22 Projects, London
1998 London Calling. Contemporary British art from Italian private Collections, Part II: The Eighties and Nineties, The British School at Rome/Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
1998 Zone, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy
1998 Inner Eye. Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
1998 Modern British Art, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1998 Noir, Triennale di Milano, Milan
1998 Veronica’s Revenge (Lambert Art Collection, Geneva), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen
1998 Wild/Life, -or-, The Impossibility of Mistaking Nature for Culture, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, North Carolina
1997 Dimensions Variable, British Council Touring Exhibition Sensation, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Brooklyn Museum, New York
1997 Picture Britanica. Art from Britain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide;Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand
1997 Turning Up #4, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
1997 Package Holiday, Hydra Workshops, Hydra, Greece
1997 Sunny Days / Critical Times. An Exhibition of Works from the Bohen Foundation’s Collection, The Bohen Foundation, New York
1997 Veronica’s Revenge : Oeuvres photographiques de la Lambert Art Collection, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
1997 Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London
1997 A Ilha do Tesouro, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
1997 The Lost Ark, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
1996 Life/Live, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris;
1996 Centro de Exposições do Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
1996 Zeit-Spiegel I, Städtisches Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen
1996 Other Men’s Flowers, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
1996 Faustrecht der Freiheit (Volkmann Collection), Kunstsammlung Gera, Berlin; Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
1996 Do It, Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna
1996 Private View, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham 1996 Twentieth Century British Sculpture, Jeu de Paume, Paris
1996 A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1996 Spellbound, Hayward Gallery, London
1996 Works on Paper, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1996 Happy End, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
1996 Chaos, Madness - Moods in Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
1995 Drawing the Line, (National Touring Exhibition from the South Bank Centre) Southampton City Art Gallery; Manchester City Art Gallery; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1995 New Art in Britain, Museum Sztuki, Poland
1995 Sings and Wonders, Kunsthaus, Zurich
1995 Minky Manky, South London Gallery, London; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1995 From Here, Waddington Galleries, London/Karsten Schubert, London
1995 A Bonnie Situation: Truth and Fiction, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
1995 Laboratories, Galerie Art et Essai, University of Rennes, Brittany
1995 The Reflected Image, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy
1995 Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London [winner]
1995 Brilliant! Art from London, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1995British Art Show 4, National Touring Exhibition Organised by the Hayward Gallery, London; Manchester; Edinburgh; Cardiff
1994 Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, (curated by Damien Hirst), Serpentine Gallery, London; Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki; Kunstverein, Hannover; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Portalen, Copenhagen
1994 Domestic Violence, Gio Marconi, Milan
1994 Virtual Reality, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1994 Cocido Y Crudo, Reina Sofia, Madrid
1994 Nature Morte, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
1994 Art Unlimited, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery; Corner House, Manchester; South Bank Centre, London; Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich; Brighton University Gallery
1994 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
1993 The 21st Century, Kunsthalle, Basel
1993 The Nightshade Family, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
1993 Aperto: Venice Biennial, Aperto Section, Venice
1993 Displace, Cohen Gallery, New York
1993 A Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London
1992 Young British Artists, Saatchi Collection, London
1992 Made for Arolsen, Schloss, Arolsen, Germany
1992 Moltiplici / Cultura, Rome
1992 London Portfolio, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
1992 Posthuman, Fondation Asher Edelman, Lausanne; Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Torino; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
1992 Group Exhibition, Luis Campaña Gallery, Frankfurt
1992 Strange Developments, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
1992 British Art, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1992 Avantgarde & Kampagne, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
1992 Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London
1992 Under Thirty, Galerie Metropol, Vienna
1991 Damien Hirst, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1991 Louder Than Words, The Cornerhouse, Manchester
1991 Broken English, Serpentine Gallery, London
1990 Modern Medicine, Building One, London
1990 Gambler, Building One, London
1989 New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1989 Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
1988 Freeze, Surrey Docks, London

Arts Council of Great Britain
Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo
Beckman Foundation, New York, NY
Bohen Foundation, New York, NY
British Council
Caldic Collection, Rotterdam
Denver Art Museum, CO
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
Deutsche Bank, London
Fondazione Sandretto, Turin
Fondazione Prada, Milan
Groeninge Group, Belgium
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Kunst Museum, Wolfsburg
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Paine Webber Art Collection, New York, NY
Rubell Family Foundation, Miami, FL
Saatchi Gallery, London
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tate Gallery, London
Weltkunst Foundation, Dublin
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

1995 Turner Prize

Freeze. London: 1988.
Modern Medicine. London: Building One, 1990.
Gambler. London: Building One, 1990.
Louder than Words. Manchester: The Cornerhouse, 1991.
Broken English. London: Serpentine Gallery, 1991.
Damien Hirst. London: ICA, 1991.
Young British Artists. London: Saatchi Collection, 1992
Commissions and Collaborations. London: BBC, 1992.
Made for Arolsen. Arolsen: Veit Loers, 1992.
Moltiplici/Cultura. Rome: 1992.
Post Human. Lausanne: Foundation Asher Edelman, 1992.
British Art. New York: Liam Gillick, SteinGladstone, 1992.
Damien Hirst. London: The British Council for Turkish Biennial, 1992.
The 21st Century. Basel: Kunsthalle, 1993.
The Nightshade Family. Kassel: Museum Fridericianum, 1993.
Aperto, Italy: Flash Art for the Venice Biennial, 1993.
Making Beautiful Drawings. Berlin: Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, 1994.
Damien Hirst. Köln: Jablonka Galerie, 1994.
Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away. London: Serpentine Gallery, 1994.
Virtual Reality. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1994.
From Beyond the Pale. Dublin: The Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1994.
Drawing the Line. London: The South Bank Centre, 1995.
Signs and Wonders. Zurich: Kunsthaus, 1995.
From Here. London: Waddington Galleries, 1995.
London: Karsten Schubert, 1995.
No Sense of Absolute Corruption, New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1996
Sensation. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1997
I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One,
Always, Forever, Now. New York: Monicelli Press. 1997
Snowblind. Edinburgh: Rebel Inc., 1998
Bukowski, Elizabeth. “Damien Hirst Now Deconstructs Camels”, The Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2000.