Damien Hirst + Invader 'InvadHirst' Print Application Open
Artist: Damien Hirst + Invader
Title: InvadHirst
Medium: Framed 21 Color Screen Print
Size: 108.7 x 86.2 cm (Framed)
Edition: TBD
Price: $3,000
*application open until Noon EST on Monday November 10th, 2025
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Damien Hirst is a British artist whose name has become shorthand for audacious contemporary art. Born in Bristol in 1965, he grew up in Leeds and later studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he emerged as the leading figure of the Young British Artists movement in the late 1980s. Hirst first garnered attention with his installation “A Thousand Years,” featuring a rotting cow’s head and a life cycle of flies, setting the tone for a career that would continually probe the boundaries between life, death, beauty and commerce.
His most iconic works include the spot paintings, endless grids of brightly colored dots that question mechanical reproduction and artistic authorship, and the formaldehyde preserved sharks, sheep and calves that confront viewers with mortality in a clinical gallery setting. These pieces, often produced with the help of a large studio team, sparked debates about originality, the role of the artist and the commodification of art itself.
Hirst’s 2008 auction, “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever,” bypassed galleries and sold directly to the public, raising over £111 million and breaking records for a single-artist sale. Beyond the market, he has explored themes of belief, medicine and spirituality through installations like the diamond encrusted skull “For the Love of God,” and the monumental Venice exhibition “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable,” which presented fabricated artifacts as if salvaged from an ancient shipwreck.
Despite critical divides, Hirst remains a cultural force, expanding into restaurants, NFTs and philanthropy while continuing to examine what it means to create, collect and confront the inevitable end.
