| 1965 | Born in Bristol, the son of a car salesman. | | 1970s | Brought up and schooled in Leeds. | | 1984 | Gets an E Grade in his Art A-level exam. | | 1985 | Takes a foundation course at Leeds School of Art. | | 1986-89 | Completes a degree in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London. | | 1988 | Curates the student exhibition, Freeze, in a warehouse at Surrey Docks in East London. The exhibition, which brought together many of the names which were to define British art in the 1990s, was attended by Charles Saatchi. | | 1990 | Charles Saatchi buys a Hirst medicine cabinet for ?1,000. | | 1991 | Hirst holds his first solo exhibition, entitled In and Out of Love, at the Woodstock Street Gallery in London. Solo exhibitions also take place at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and the Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery in Paris. | | 1992 | Hirst's work is included in the Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London. He displays The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde. The piece, commissioned by Saatchi for ?45,000, earns Hirst a Turner Prize nomination. | | 1993 | Holds solo exhibitions in Los Angeles and Cologne. | | 1994 | Another of Hirst's formaldehyde installations, a sheep in a tank entitled Away from the Flock, is bought for ?250,000. 'Baa-rmy,' comments the Sun newspaper. Vegetarians protest about it, and it is vandalised with black ink while on show at the Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away exhibition, curated by Hirst, at London's Serpentine Gallery. | | 1995 | There is more controversy and publicity surrounding Hirst's animal sculptures as he wins the Turner Prize for Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, an exhibition which Hirst curated the previous year. Mother and Child Divided, a cow and a calf sliced in half, is priced at ?140,000.
Two Fucking and Two Watching, which features a rotting cow and bull, is banned from exhibition in New York by public health officials because of fears that the smell of the carcasses 'might prompt vomiting among the visitors'.
Three solo exhibitions are held, in Seoul, London and Salzburg. | | 1996 | Hirst holds his first solo exhibition at the Gagosian gallery in New York, entitled No Sense of Absolute Corruption. Hirst's first short film, Hanging Around, is shown in London. | | 1998 | Hirst branches out, opening a restaurant, Pharmacy, in Notting Hill. He records a pop music single with Fat Les, made up of actor Keith Allen and Blur bassist Alex James. Vindaloo, a World Cup tribute record, goes to number two in the charts. Hirst sells God, a cabinet containing pharmaceutical products, for ?185,000 at Christies.
At the age of 33, Hirst publishes his autobiography, I Want To Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now. | | 1999 | Hirst sues British Airways over a billboard advert for its low-cost airline, Go, which Hirst claims is based on one of his trademark spot-paintings. | | 2000 | Hirst's New York show is a spectacular success. Hymn, one of the pieces in the show, is bought by Charles Saatchi for ?1 million. But Humbrol, a toy firm based in Hull, considers legal action over the piece, which it claims is a replica on a larger scale of its Young Scientist Anatomy Set, which sells for ?14.99. To fend off legal action, Hirst makes a 'goodwill' payment to the commercial sculptor who designed the set |
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