Young British Artists (YBA)
YOUNG BRITISH ARTISTS
YBAs = provocative. The collective of artists who came up in London in the late 1980s and early ’90s — commonly referred to as the Young British Artists (YBAs) — have made their indelible mark on the art world and continue to produce work that both challenges the viewer and seduces collectors the world over.
Damien Hirst played the role of pioneer in 1988 by organizing “Freeze,” the first of several artist-curated group shows held in abandoned warehouses across London. Most of the artists participating in these early exhibitions — among them Sarah Lucas, Gary Hume, Liam Gillick, Mat Collishaw, Sam Taylor-Wood (now generating more buzz for her directorial work on the film 50 Shades of Grey), and Hirst himself — were graduates of Goldsmiths, University of London. The group’s sophisticated maturity and confidence in presenting Conceptual art with shock appeal, such as Collishaw’s Bullet Hole, a photograph that offers a disturbingly gruesome close-up of a man’s fatal wound, left a lasting impression with Charles Saatchi and other art world stalwarts.
From the beginning, Hirst was fascinated by such epic themes as death and immortality and sought to express them through unconventional, powerful gestures; his early works include A Thousand Years, 1990, in which flies feed on a bloody cow head, breed and die by electrocution within a large glass vitrine, and The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991, his Jaws-inspired suspension of a great white shark in formaldehyde. Following in the footsteps of artists ranging from Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons, Hirst was inspired by mundane objects from daily life, incorporating them into his works, most famously his "Medicine Cabinets" filled with brightly packaged pills.
Notoriously dubbed an “enfant terrible” of the art world, Tracey Emin once printed a photo of Damien Hirst, stuck it on the bottom of an ashtray, and sold it as a piece of art. Represented by 1stDibs’ Lehmann Maupin Gallery since the late 1990s, Emin was a Turner Prize finalist in 1998 for My Bed, an installation showcasing her disheveled bed covered in underwear, used condoms and other debris. Overt sexuality and the emotional dynamics of love and sex have persisted as themes throughout her career, seen across the neon artworks for which she is most famous.
YBAs have never shied from using non-traditional materials or tackling controversial subject matter. Chris Ofili, a racially charged painter who re-appropriates biblical and mythological iconography, found the spotlight in 1999 when then-New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani publicly criticized the artist’s monumental depiction of an eroticized black Madonna, entitled The Holy Virgin Mary, baring a breast composed of elephant dung and surrounded by images of female genitalia. Marc Quinn reimagined the self-portrait in 1991 by casting a frozen sculpture of his head with his own blood and maintaining it in a refrigerated vitrine as if on life-support. More recently, Quinn has elicited strong reactions from a series of studies and sculptures of supermodel Kate Moss in a contorted, god-like pose.
Below, we invite you to browse our collection of original works by Hirst, Emin, Quinn, Collishaw and other YBAs — a group that knew not only how to provoke and self-promote but to create works that continue to resonate today.
Find original Young British Artists sculptures, photography, prints and other art on 1stDibs.
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Style: Young British Artists (YBA)
N-Methyl L-Aspartic Acid
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: N-Methyl L-Aspartic Acid
Series: Spots
Date: 2011
Medium: Screenprint in colors, on Somerset paper, with full margins.
Unframed Dimensions: 23.5" x...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Screen
Untitled (Artist's Hand), unique signed drawing by celebrated British artist
By Richard Long
Located in New York, NY
RICHARD LONG
Untitled (Artist's Hand), 2015
Graphite pencil on paper with red ink and monogram
Hand signed in red ink, dated in pencil, stamped with the artist's monogram
Unique
Orig...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Ink, Pencil, Graphite, Mixed Media
More To Come
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: More To Come
Series: The Currency
Date: 2016
Medium: One shot enamel paint on handmade paper
Unframed Dimensions: 8.4" x 11.8"
Signature: Singed, ...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Enamel
Diamond Skull (For the Love of God)
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: Diamond Skull (For the Love of God)
Date: 2007
Medium: Screenprint with Glazes
Unframed Dimensions: 39.25" x 29.5"
Framed Dimensions: 40.5" x 30.5"
...
Category
Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Screen, Glaze
Damien Hirst 'Colour Chart' Aluminum Panel Silkscreen with Glitter, 2017
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
'Colour Chart' Aluminum Panel Silkscreen with Glitter, 2017 is signed and numbered by the Artist on verso. Published by HENI in 2017. Edition of 250 + 8AP, number #152 of edition.
T...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Glitter, Panel, Screen
Damien Hirst 'All You Need Is Love, Love, Love' Diamond Dust Screen Print, 2010
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
The ‘All You Need Is Love, Love, Love’ butterfly heart with diamond dust by contemporary master artist, Damien Hirst, was created in 2010. It is signed and numbered by the Artist and...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Archival Paper, Screen
Sudafed PE Sinus
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: Sudafed PE Sinus
Series: Schizophrenogenesis
Date: 2014
Medium: Polyurethane resin with ink pigment
Unframed Dimensions: 11.81" x 5.11"
Signature:...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Resin
Big Love
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: Big Love
Date: 2010
Medium: Silkscreen
Unframed Dimensions: 60" x 60"
Framed Dimensions: 64.25" x 63"
Signature: Signed
Edition: 7/50
Publisher: ...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Screen
From the Cradle to the Grave Book (limited edition hand signed monograph in box)
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
Damien Hirst
From the Cradle to the Grave, 2005
Limited Edition hardback monograph (Hand signed and numbered)
Hand signed and numbered 998/1500 by Damien Hirst on the title page
16 ×...
Category
Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
Quinizarin
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: Quinizarin
Series: Spots
Date: 2011
Medium: Woodcut
Unframed Dimensions: 8" x 20"
Signature: Pencil signed, numbered on the reverse
Edition: 39/5...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Woodcut
Picolinic Acid
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: Picolinic Acid
Series: Spots
Date: 2011
Medium: Woodcut
Unframed Dimensions: 8" x 20"
Signature: Pencil signed, numbered on the reverse
Edition: ...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Woodcut
Bromphenol Blue
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: Bromphenol Blue
Date: 2005
Medium: Etching and Aquatint in Colours on Hahnemühle Paper
Unframed Dimensions: 30" x 36.5"
Framed Dimensions: 35" x 42...
Category
Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Etching
Untitled 07
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled 07
Series: Eye of History
Date: 2013
Medium: Color Etching on 350gsm paper
Unframed Dimensions: 35.9375" x 35.5625"
Framed Dimensions: 4...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Etching
Untitled 06
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled 06
Series: Eye of History
Date: 2013
Medium: Color Etching on 350gsm paper
Unframed Dimensions: 35.9375" x 35.5625"
Framed Dimensions: 44...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Etching
Oh my God and for those really stubborn stains
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: Oh my God and for those really stubborn stains
Series: In a Spin Volume 1
Date: 2002
Medium: Etching on 350gsm Hahnmuhle paper
Unframed Dimensions...
Category
Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Etching
The Stain (Venice Biennial), limited edition with pencil signed envelope
By Tracey Emin
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin
The Stain, 2007
Mini booklet; stitched binding; digitally printed, accompanied by pencil signed envelope
4 1/2 × 3 3/5 inches
Edition of 100 (unnumbered)
pencil signed by...
Category
Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Offset
Liberty
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: Liberty
Series: In a Spin Volume 1
Date: 2002
Medium: Etching on 350gsm Hahnmuhle paper
Unframed Dimensions: 35.875" x 28"
Framed Dimensions: 43....
Category
Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Etching
Pyramus and Thisbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pyramus and Thisbe
Etching, c.1906
Signed along bottom edge in pencil "Augustus E John"
Edition: 25
Reference: Dodgson 91 ii/II
Condition: Excellent
Plate: 5 1/8 x 4" (13.02 x 10.16 ...
Category
Early 1900s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Etching
H10-5 Taytu Betul
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: H10-5 Taytu Betul
Series: The Empresses
Date: 2022
Medium: Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite, screen printed ...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Glitter, Giclée
H10-3 Theodora
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: H10-3 Theodora
Series: The Empresses
Date: 2022
Medium: Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite, screen printed with glitter
Unframed Dimensio...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Giclée, Glitter
H10-1 Wu Zetian
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: H10-1 Wu Zetian
Series: The Empresses
Date: 2022
Medium: Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite, screen printed with...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Glitter, Giclée
Cinchonidine
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: Cinchonidine
Series: Spots
Date: 2004
Medium: Aquatint
Unframed Dimensions: 44" x 43"
Framed Dimensions: 51" x 49.75"
Signature: Pencil signed
Ed...
Category
Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Etching
Frozen Sky, Night. Large Modern British Conceptual Screenprint Langlands & Bell
By Langlands & Bell
Located in Surfside, FL
Frozen Sky
1999
A screen print on Somerset Satin 410 gsm paper
Paper image size: 70.0 x 66.0 cm
Edition 45 with 11 artist’s proofs
Proofed editioned at Advanced Graphics, London
Published by Alan Cristea Gallery
Langlands & Bell are two artists who work collaboratively. Ben Langlands (born London 1955) and Nikki Bell (born London 1959), began collaborating in 1978, while studying Fine Art at Middlesex Polytechnic in North London, from 1977 to 1980.
Their artistic practice ranges from sculpture, film and video, to innovative digital media projects, and full-scale architecture. Their work focuses on the complex web of relationships linking people with architecture and the built environment, and on a wider global level, the coded systems of mass-communications and exchange we use to negotiate an increasingly fast-changing technological world.
In the mid-1980s, they became known for making monochromatic sculptures and reliefs, often in the form of furniture or architectural models, which employed an analytical and almost archeological approach to architecture and design typologies to explore human social interaction in terms ranging from the personal, to the socio-aesthetic, and socio-political.
Langlands & Bell have exhibited internationally throughout their career including in exhibitions at Tate Britain and Tate Modern, the Imperial War Museum, the Serpentine Gallery, and the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, at IMMA, Dublin, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, MoMA, New York, the Central House of the Artist, Moscow, Venice Biennale, Seoul Biennale, and CCA Kitakyushu and TN Probe, Tokyo in Japan.
Their work was first purchased by Charles Saatchi in 1990 and 1991 from exhibitions at Maureen Paley Interim Art, London. It was subsequently exhibited in the first of the Young British Artists exhibitions at the Saatchi Collection, Boundary Road in 1992, and again in the 1997 Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. Sensation toured to the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin and the Brooklyn Museum, New York in 1998/99.
In 1996-1997, a major survey exhibition Langlands & Bell Works 1986–1996 co-curated by the Serpentine Gallery, London, and Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany also toured to Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo, Italy, and Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastián, Spain.
In 2002, Langlands & Bell were commissioned by the Art Commissions Committee of the Department of Art at the Imperial War Museum, London, to travel to Afghanistan to research "The Aftermath of September 11 and the War in Afghanistan".
In 2004, they won the BAFTA Award (British Academy of Film & Television Arts) for Interactive Arts Installation for The House of Osama bin Laden, the trilogy of art works resulting from their visit. In 2004 Langlands & Bell were also short-listed for the Turner Prize for the same work.
Artworks by Langlands & Bell are in the permanent collections of many prominent international art museums including the British Museum, Imperial War Museum, (Focusing on contemporary images of conflict, violence, war and peace, ‘Caught in the Crossfire’ drew from the permanent collection of the Herbert Art Gallery, including works by Banksy, Graham Sutherland, Langlands & Bell, Ori Gersht and Terry Atkinson...
Category
1990s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Screen
Sudafed PE
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: Sudafed PE Sinus
Series: Schizophrenogenesis
Date: 2014
Medium: Polyurethane resin with ink pigment
Unframed Dimensions: 11.81" x 5.11"
Signature:...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Resin
Zarontin PD 237
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: Zarontin PD 237
Series: Schizophrenogenesis
Date: 2014
Medium: Polyurethane resin with ink pigment
Unframed Dimensions: 11.81" x 5.11"
Signature: ...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Resin
“Some Girl” Death - 6
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: hirst, Damien
Title: “Some Girl” Death - 6
Date: 2010
Medium: Mixed Media
Unframed Dimensions: 28.25" x 20.75"
Framed Dimensions: 35" x 26.5"
...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled 03
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled 03
Series: Eye of History
Date: 2013
Medium: Colour Etching on 350gsm paper
Unframed Dimensions: 35.9375" x 35.5625"
Framed Dimensions: ...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Etching
Love Will Tear Us Apart
By Damien Hirst
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Damien Hirst
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Plexiglas and sintra cabinet with various sized surgical syringes and needles
14 x 20 x 8 3/4 in.
Edition of 30
Signed, da...
Category
1990s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Mixed Media
In A Spin, from In A Spin Series
By Damien Hirst
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Damien Hirst
In A Spin, from In A Spin: The Action Of The World On Things
2002
Spin etching
S: 36 x 28 in. I: 6 x 4 in.
Edition o...
Category
Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Etching
Wheel Within A Wheel, from In A Spin Series
By Damien Hirst
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Damien Hirst
Wheel Within A Wheel, from In A Spin: The Action Of The World On Things
2002
Spin etching
S: 36 x 28 in. I: 9 x 7 3/4 ...
Category
Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Etching
I Get Around, from In A Spin Series
By Damien Hirst
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Damien Hirst
I Get Around, from In A Spin: The Action Of The World On Things
2002
Spin etching
S: 36 x 28 in. I: 11 x 10 in.
Edit...
Category
Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Etching
Untitled 05
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled 05
Series: Eye of History
Date: 2013
Medium: Color Etching on 350gsm paper
Unframed Dimensions: 35.9375" x 35.5625"
Signature: Signed by...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Etching
Untitled 08
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled 08
Series: Eye of History
Date: 2013
Medium: Color Etching on 350gsm paper
Unframed Dimensions: 35.9375" x 35.5625"
Signature: Signed by...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Etching
H13-5 Exmouth Esplanade
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: H13-5 Exmouth Esplanade
Series: Where the Land Meets the Sea
Date: 2023
Medium: Laminated Giclée prints on aluminium composite panel
Unframed Dimens...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Panel, Giclée
H13-7 Mill Bay, Salcombe
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: H13-7 Mill Bay, Salcombe
Series: Where the Land Meets the Sea
Date: 2023
Medium: Laminated Giclée prints on aluminium composite panel
Unframed Dimen...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Panel, Giclée
H13-8 Woody Bay
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: H13-8 Woody Bay
Series: Where the Land Meets the Sea
Date: 2023
Medium: Laminated Giclée prints on alumi...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Panel, Giclée
H13-6 Pegwell Bay
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: H13-6 Pegwell Bay
Series: Where the Land Meets the Sea
Date: 2023
Medium: Laminated Giclée print on alum...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA)
Materials
Panel, Giclée
Young British Artists (yba) art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Young British Artists (YBA) available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of red, blue, purple, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Gary Hume, and Marc Quinn. Frequently made by artists working with Digital Print, and Inkjet Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Young British Artists (YBA), so small editions measuring 3.6 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $750 and tops out at $214,080, while the average work sells for $8,194.
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