Born in 1965 in Leeds, Damien Hirst attended Goldsmith's College in London and in the late 1980s organized exhibitions of work by young artists, which reignited the British art scene. Museums and galleries around the world have since collected his paintings, sculptures and installations. In 1994 Hirst received the DAAD fellowship in Berlin, and in 1995 he won the Tate Gallery's prestigious Turner Prize, for which he was also nominated in 1992. In 1996 he wrote and directed a short film, Hanging Around. He lives in Devon, England, with his partner Maia Norman and sons Connor and Cassius.
