In 1988, during his second year at Goldsmiths, Hirst became the principal convenor of the independent student art exhibition Freeze, sponsored by the London Docklands Development Corporation. The exhibition was held in a derelict building in London's Docklands. Thanks to the influence of Michael Craig-Martin, a lecturer at Goldsmiths College, many heavyweight British art critics, including Charles Sarge, Norman Rosenthal and Nicholas Serota, have visited this exhibition. . Hirst himself exhibited a work cobbled together from a large pile of cardboard with family portraits on it.
After graduation, Hirst participated in the "New Generation" exhibition at Kettles Yard Gallery in Cambridge. At the same time, he also contacted Karsten Schubert in order to find an agent, but the two parties did not reach an agreement in the end.
In 1990, Hearst's friends Carl Freedman and Billee Sellman assisted Hearst in the construction of Bermondsey, London. The abandoned factory hosts two important exhibitions: Contemporary Medicine and The Gambler. Charles Schage visited the second exhibition and, according to Friedman, "stood in awe, dumbfounded" by one of Hirst's animal exhibits - one of Hirst's " A Thousand Years," a huge glass box containing a rotten cow's head and countless flies and maggots. Schach ended up buying the work.
In 1991, Hirst held his first solo exhibition in London: "In and Out of Love"; he also held it at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and the Emmanuel Perrotin Museum in Paris. Had a solo exhibition. Hirst also served as the convener for Broken English, an exhibition of new artists held at the Serpentine Gallery.
Hearst met Jay Jopling. Joplin later became Hearst's agent. Saatchi provided Hirst with funding to create whatever he wanted, and the results were exhibited in the 1992 exhibition "A New Generation of British Artists" at the Saatchi Gallery in north London. Hirst's work is "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" - a shark preserved in a glass case filled with formaldehyde. This piece cost 50,000 pounds a day, and the shark was caught from Australia, costing 6,000 pounds. A Thousand Years is also on display. For this exhibition, Hirst was nominated for that year's Turner Prize, but the final winner was the British sculptor Grenville Davey.
In 1993, Hirst participated in his first major international exhibition: the Venice Biennale. The work he exhibited was "Mother and Child Divided", a half-dismembered cow and calf, respectively placed in formaldehyde glass boxes. In 1994, Hirst held the exhibition "Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away" at the Sabant Gallery in London, featuring the work "Away from the Flock" - A sheep preserved in a formaldehyde glass box. During the exhibition, Mark Bridger, a 35-year-old artist from Oxford, poured ink into the box and claimed that the work was named "Black Sheep." Bridget was subsequently prosecuted and given a two-year suspended sentence; the work cost ￡1,000 to restore.
In 1995, the New York Department of Public Health banned his work "Two Fucking and Two Watching" from being exhibited; the work was a corrupt bird. of Bulls and Cows because "I was worried that the audience would vomit." In addition, solo exhibitions have been held in Seoul, London and Salzburg. He also directed the music video for "Country Road" for Buhler Orchestra; in addition, his work "No Sense of Absolute Corruption" was exhibited at the Gagosian Gallery in New York; the short film "Hanging Around" ” was shown in London, written and directed by Hirst and starring Eddie Issa. In the same year, Hirst won the Turner Prize.
In 1997, the "Perception" exhibition opened at the Royal Academy in London. "A Thousand Years" and other Hirst's works were exhibited. As usual, Hirst's works attracted a lot of attention. controversy, but the audience's acceptance of the new generation of British artists has also become much higher than before.
In 1998, Hirst's autobiography and art book "I Want To Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now" was published to widespread acclaim. He also formed a band called ":en: Fat Les|Fat Les" with Buhler's Alex James and actor Keith Allen, and released the single Vindaloo (a Portuguese word for "Vindaloo"). Growing Indian Food) also reached number two on the UK Singles Chart in 1998. Hurst also created a color inspection chart for the Beagle 2 mission, which would be used to calibrate the camera after the Beagle 2 landing on Mars. He was also invited to represent the British Council at the 1999 Venice Biennale, but turned it down because it "didn't feel right". He sued British Airways for infringing his copyright in the design of the trademark for its low-cost route "Go".
In 2000, Hirst's sculptural "Hymn" was displayed in the exhibition "Ant Noises (an anagram for sensation)" at the Sarchi Gallery. According to reports, Schach bought the work for ￡1 million. Hearst subsequently sued himself for copyright infringement of the engraving, and he made an unprecedented three copies of the engraving, all of which were sold. In September, the exhibition "Damien Hirst: Models, Methods, Approximations, Hypotheses, Results and Findings." was held in New York, with 100,000 visitors in three months and all works on display sold. .
On September 10, 2002, on the eve of the first anniversary of the September 11th incident, he was interviewed by the BBC:
“The entire September 11th incident has some similarities with works of art in some aspects. .... Of course, the visual effects of this incident are amazing, and you have to admit that they (referring to the attackers who caused the incident) did something big that no one could have imagined, especially for a big country like the United States. In some respects, their achievements are worthy of applause, because they put most people to shame, even though it was a very dangerous thing." Within a week of the press release, Hearst's speech caused a stir. Come to defiance from all walks of life. He later issued a statement through the company:
"I sincerely apologize for any discomfort I have caused, especially to the families of the victims of this horrific incident."
In April 2003, Saatchi Gallery held exhibitions at the London County Council, including a Hirst retrospective. This exhibition further exacerbated the tension between the two men, and Hirst did not even record the exhibition in his personal resume. The reason was that one of Hirst's works for charity - a minivan painted with his trademark pattern - was displayed in a serious way, but Hirst thought it was just an improvisation. The incident also led to the cancellation of a retrospective exhibition at the Tate Modern.
He accused Shaqi of being "naive", "I am not Charles Shaqi's monkey... He only judges art based on the value of money... He thinks he can influence art with the power of money, and he has always been obsessed with it. ."
In September 2003, "Romance in an Uncertain Age" was exhibited at the White Square Gallery in London. The revenue from the exhibition and work was reported to be as high as 11 million pounds, making his career The property increased to more than 35 million pounds, and the sculpture "Charity" was bought by a Korean department store owner for 1.5 million pounds and displayed in the department store he opened. The work is 6.7 meters tall and weighs six tons. It shows a little girl suffering from polio with an iron auxiliary brace on her right leg, holding a cat and a donation box. The donation box was broken and empty.
A copy of "Charity" is on display in Haxton Square, London, in front of the White Square Gallery. There are 12 glass cabinets in the basement of the gallery, representing the twelve disciples of Jesus. Each box contains bloody and horrific furnishings, symbolizing the fate and experiences of each disciple. There is an empty cabinet at the end, representing Jesus himself. Upstairs in the gallery, there are four small glass boxes containing cow heads filled with scissor blades. Such works are considered "transcendent spiritual experiences" in traditional Catholic imagery. At the same time, Hirst bought back 12 of his own works from Schach, which was one-third of the number of Hirst's works that Schach had collected. The total amount was reported to be as high as ￡8 million. On May 24, 2004, a fire broke out in the warehouse of the art storage and transfer company Momart. The fire destroyed a large number of Schach's collections, including 17 Hirst works. The statue of Charity was placed in the square outside the warehouse and thus escaped disaster.
In July, Hearst spoke out about his relationship with Schach: "I respect Charles. There's really no bad blood between us. If we met, we would talk, but anyway we They are not just good friends who call each other brothers."
At the end of the year, Hearst was commissioned to design a single cover for Band Aid, which featured an African child squatting on the ground, but this design was not appreciated. The record company replaced it with a reindeer and child standing in the snow.
In December, Indifferent to the Living was sold by Shaqi. The buyer was Steve Cohen, an American art collector and Greenwich hedge fund manager. The amount reached 12 million US dollars (6.5 million pounds). Hearst's New York agent Gagosian facilitated the deal. Cohen subsequently donated the work to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Nicolas Serlotta had hoped to buy it and display it in the Tate Gallery. Hugo Swire, the art minister in the British Shadow Cabinet, even issued a public letter asking the government to try to keep the work in the museum. Domestically, however, current UK art export regulations cannot restrict living artists.
In March 2005, Gagosian Gallery in New York exhibited 30 paintings by Hirst. These works took three and a half years to complete. They were based on photos and assisted by assistants, and were completed by Hirst himself.
In February 2006, Hilario Galguera Gallery in Mexico held Hirst's exhibition "The Death of God, Towards a Better Understanding of Life without God" God aboard The Ship of Fools)”. This was Hirst's first exhibition in Latin America, and it attracted significant coverage in the local media.
In 2006, Hirst's A Thousand Years and Four Triptychs, including a new formaldehyde product: The Tranquility of Solitude, were presented at the Gagosian Gallery and Francis Bacon's A triptych is displayed side by side. The work "Silence of Loneliness" was inspired by Bacon.
Hirst is arguably the most expensive contemporary artist in Britain.
Hirst once decorated a skull with 8,500 diamonds worth about 8 million to 10 million pounds. Analysis confirmed that the skull used belonged to a European about 35 years old who lived in the 18th or early 19th century. The most valuable piece of this work is undoubtedly a diamond weighing about 50 carats placed on the forehead. This platinum and diamond skull work is called "For the Love of God". Hirst once said: "I just want to celebrate life by damning death. What better way to cover death than to use symbols of luxury, desire and depravity?" "On August 30, 2007, this diamond skull was sold for US$100 million, setting a record for the highest price paid for a work by a living artist.