Supreme x Damien Hirst Shark Skateboard
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
About the original
The Damien Hirst x Supreme deck is a 7-ply maple skateboard printed with imagery from Hirst's shark works and finished with a dipped grip and veneer. Damien Hirst is a British contemporary artist born in Bristol in 1965 and a founding figure of the Young British Artists movement that emerged from Goldsmiths in the late 1980s. His 1991 piece The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a tiger shark suspended in formaldehyde, sold at auction in 2004 for $12 million. The Supreme SS25 collab is one of several Hirst has done with the brand since 2009, following spot paintings and spin decks.
About Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst is a British contemporary artist born in 1965 in Bristol, England, and raised in Leeds. He studied at Goldsmiths College in London from 1986 to 1989 and curated the 1988 student exhibition Freeze, which launched the Young British Artists group. His best-known works include The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), a tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde, alongside his long-running Spot and Spin painting series. He won the Turner Prize in 1995. Supreme has collaborated with Hirst on multiple capsules applying his Spot painting motif to apparel and skate decks.
