Damien Hirst + Invader 'InvadHirst' Ends Monday At Noon
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 ends 12pm EST on Monday November 10th, 2025
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Invader is the pseudonym of a French artist born in 1969 who has spent the past quarter century staging playful invasions of public space with ceramic mosaics inspired by 1978 arcade graphics. A graduate of the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, he moved from canvas experiments to durable bathroom tiles, cementing the first alien on a Paris wall in 1998 as a way to liberate pixel creatures from the television screen. Each miniature work is meticulously mapped to its surroundings, so a red ghost may hover above a neon bistro sign or a turquoise Space Invader may lurk beside a Baroque molding, turning the city into an open air gallery and passers by into unwitting players of his treasure hunt.
The project has grown to more than four thousand pieces across seventy nine cities, from Los Angeles to Kathmandu, and even to the International Space Station where astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti floated an alien mosaic 248 miles above Earth. Invader keeps score through an app called Flash Invaders that awards points for photographs of his works, encouraging fans to chase the hardest hidden tiles much like the original arcade challenge. Along the way he has expanded his practice into Rubikcubism sculptures made from solved cubes, large scale panels that fetch six figures at auction, and collaborations with fashion and design houses, all while maintaining anonymity behind a mask or pixelated blur. Whether installing a Hello Kitty in Tokyo, Spiderman on a Paris chimney, or planets outside the European Space Agency, Invader continues to transform urban surfaces into joyful reminders that art can hide in plain sight and that the city itself is the greatest game board of all.
