Damien Hirst, a renowned and provocative artist, emerged as a key player in the Young British Artists scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His pieces, which also include dead animal exhibitions and spin-art canvases, have fetched exorbitant sums. Hirst is one of the wealthiest painters alive today. Damien Hirst, a British designer, has stunned and amazed the art world with his strange works, which include glass exhibitions of animal carcasses and medical cabinet sculptures.