Angus Fairhurst (born 1966) is a British artist working in installation, photography and video. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs).

Fairhurst was born in Penbury, Kent. He studied at Canterbury Art College 1985-19866 and graduated in 1989 in Fine Art at Goldsmiths' College, where he was in the same year as Damien Hirst. The two became close friends and have collaborated on many projects, but Fairhurst never achieved the same level of celebrity (or infamy) as Hirst. Fairhurst was also for several years the partner and sometime-collaborator of Sarah Lucas.

Fairhurst's work is usually characterised by visual distortion and practical jokes. In 1991 he did a piece in which he networked together the phones of leading contemporary art dealers in London so that they could only talk to each other – a witty and telling remark that the art world is often only interested in speaking to itself.

Angus Fairhurst exhibited in Freeze and Some Went Mad and Some Ran Away both curated by Hirst, and Minky Manky curated by Carl Freedman. A 2004 exhibition In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was held at the Tate Gallery with Hirst and Lucas.

He lives and works in London.

1966 births | Living people | British artists | British photographers | Installation artists