Freeze

Freeze

Jul 1988, Dock Offices, Surrey Docks, London
Curator: Damien Hirst
Steven Adamson, Angela Bulloch, Mat Collishaw, Ian Davenport, Angus Fairhurst, Anya Gallaccio, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Abigail Lane, Sarah Lucas, Lala Meredith-Vula, Stephen Park, Richard Patterson, Simon Patterson, and Fiona Rae.
During his time at Goldsmiths College of Art Damien Hirst organized in July 1988 in an empty London Port Authority building at Surrey Docks in London Docklands his first exhibition, entitled Freeze.
Many of the participating artists, later known as YBA – Young British Artists, are well known today but not so in July 1988:
https://www.artist-info.com/exhibition/Goldsmiths-University-of-London-Id307883

Please see as well

Brilliant!

22.10.1995 - 7.1.1996, Walker Art Center, on our blog post 'Influential Contemporary Art Exhibitions in the 20th and 21st Century' as another reference for Young British Artists - YBA.
All artists on https://www.artist-info.com/exhibition/Walker-Art-Center-Id326528

Source: https://www.artist-info.com/blog/influential