Artist

Damien Hirst

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Contemporary artist, London

Damien Hirst built a career on the subject everyone avoids — death — and made it dazzling. He rose with the Young British Artists, turning a shark in formaldehyde and walls of bright, machine-precise dots into the most talked-about art of his generation. The spots do nothing but make colour feel good, no two alike. Provocative, prolific, endlessly debated.