Damien Hirst at Tate Modern

See more than 70 iconic works by celebrated contemporary artist Damien Hirst at London's Tate Modern.

Damien Hirst at London's Tate Modern

A shark suspended in formaldehyde, a bisected cow and calf… Damien Hirst is well-known for his imaginative and sometimes shocking works.

This April, Tate Modern unveils the first substantial survey of Damien Hirst's work ever held in the UK.

Highlights of Damien Hirst at Tate Modern

The works on display in the Tate Modern's upcoming Damien Hirst exhibition span two decades and include:

• The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, in which Hirst suspended a shark in formaldehyde
• Mother and Child Divided, a four-part sculpture of a bisected cow and calf
• A Thousand Years (1990), in which the cycle of life is represented by a cow's head, flies and insect-o-cutor
• Paintings from Hirst's spot, spin, butterfly and fly series
• Major installations In and Out of Love (1991), not shown in its entirety since its creation, and Pharmacy (1992)

About Artist Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst got his first taste of fame in 1988 when he created and curated Freeze, an influential exhibition of work by himself and fellow Goldsmiths College students, staged in a disused London warehouse.

Today Hirst is one of the most prominent artists on the British art scene, and known for exploring imagery associated with life and death.

In 1994 he received the DAAD fellowship in Berlin, and went on to scoop the Turner Prize in 1995.

Born in Bristol in 1965, Hirst now lives and works in London and Devon.