Part of the Young British Artists movement that came to prominence in the 1990s, Damien Hirst is one of the most notorious and controversial artists in British art history. Since the late 1980’s, Hirst has experimented with sculpture, painting, and drawing to explore the complex relationship between art, beauty, horror, life, and death; the latter being a central theme to his work. Since graduating from Goldsmiths in 1989, over 80 solo Damien Hirst exhibitions have taken place worldwide and his work has been included in over 260 group shows. In 1995, Hirst was awarded The Turner Prize. In 2012, his contribution to British art over the last two and a half decades was recognised with a major retrospective of his work staged at the Tate Modern.