Damien Hirst

In class, we discussed the English artist, Damien Hirst. Damien Hirst won the Tate Gallery Turner Prize in 1995. Hirst's most famous works are centralized around death and dead animals. He is most famous for preserving animals including a shark, a sheep, and a cow. In 2007, Hirst's shark was put on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The shark was a 13-foot tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde. This piece weighed a total of 22-tons. The piece was created in 1991 and was previously displayed in London, Berlin, and Austria. This work is located at the MET overlooking Central Park.