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Chris Ofili

Chris Ofili

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    View works. Chris Ofili, Crowning of a Satyr (Blue), 2021
    Crowning of a Satyr (Blue), 2021
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    Chris Ofili's vibrant, symbolic works incorporate manifold particularities. Natural sites, mythological and biblical stories, art produced across cultures, contemporary injustices and personal experiences permeate subjects and scenes, often created over a long period of time, that are abundantly evocative and yet profoundly mysterious. Ofili combines abstraction and figuration, ornamentation and pared-down forms, and flatness and depth in bodies of work that, resisting any singular interpretation, have evolved according to an immanent painterly logic, exploring both representational strategies and art's experiential dimensions.

    Richly orchestrated paintings from the 1990s bring rippling dots of paint, drifts of glitter and collaged images together with elephant dung – varnished, often studded with map pins and applied to the picture surface as well as supporting the canvas, combining physical elevation with a symbolic link to the earth. In The Upper Room (1999–2002), its title a reference to the biblical setting of the Last Supper, thirteen paintings line the walls of an intimately lit, chapel-like space. Each iteration of their repeated subject, the rhesus macaque monkey, is governed by a different colour.

    Works from the early 2000s that linger on an eternal couple, who dwell in a paradise at once remote and beguilingly within reach, are made in red, black and green. Drawn from Marcus Garvey's Pan-African flag, a symbol of political unity, these three colours radiate from dung balls in the guise of planetary, overseeing forces, imbued with qualities of romantic intimacy and beauty. Paintings and drawings from this body of work were shown at the British Pavilion during the 2003 Venice Biennale in a colour-saturated environment born out of their particular atmosphere, beneath the aegis of a kaleidoscopic glass skylight sculpture.

    An inward intensity gathers in later paintings, which seem to inhabit the deep, moonlit nights of Trinidad (where the artist has lived since 2005). Dreamlike forms gradually emerge from their velvet depths: Trinidadian Parang musicians playing beside the hanging body of Judas Iscariot in Iscariot Blues (2006); a stop and search incident with sacrificial overtones in Blue Devils (2014) – the blue devils, who annually descend from the Trinidadian town of Paramin during Carnival with a traditional dispensation to behave threateningly, here associated with the 'boys in blue' of the British police force.

    In subsequent works, transformative rituals unfold somewhere outside linear time and space. Drawings titled Poolside Magic (2012–2018) feature a recurring, formally dressed figure – sometimes reverently bowing, sometimes upright – whose ceremonial offerings produce a shape-shifting smoke. Elsewhere, works are populated by seductive protagonists inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, Homer's Odyssey, or the fertile, mercurial satyr of Greek mythology. In recent drawings and paintings, clouds of particles drift across idiosyncratically imagined, expansive moments of vision – of the desired or remembered – as though seeding fields of possibility.

    Attuned to the possibilities of materials and contexts, Ofili continues to pursue varied artistic forms and modes of engagement. His interdisciplinary, collaborative projects include the triptych The Caged Bird's Song (2014–2017), a watercolour landscape hand-woven into tapestry by Dovecot Studios. Other works by the artist, such as the small-scale, veiled Othello - Shroud paintings (spanning 2019–2024) and the shuttered Othello - Reflection watercolours (each 2018–2024) – which explore his ongoing relationship with Shakespeare's Othello and self-portraiture as a movement of imaginative empathy towards the other – invite intimate moments of encounter.

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  • Selected Works

    Chris Ofili watched over by the wind, river meets forest in the light of the sun 2020–2025 Oil and charcoal on linen 160.1 x 230.5 cm 63 x 90 3/4 in (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Chris Ofili, The Great Beauty, 2020-2023 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Chris Ofili  The Sorceress' Mirror, 2017 Watercolour and charcoal on paper 58.7 x 105 cm 23 1/8 x 41 3/8 in (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Chris Ofili The Caged Bird’s Song, 2014–2017 Wool, cotton and viscose Triptych: left and right panels each 280 x 184 cm (110 1/4 x 72 1/2 in); centre panel 280 x 372 cm (110 1/4 x 146 1/2 in) Installation view, Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic, The National Gallery, London, 2017 Photography: Gautier Deblonde (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Chris Ofili, Afronirvana, 2002 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Chris Ofili The Upper Room, 1999–2002 Installation view, Chris Ofili: The Upper Room, Tate Britain, London, 2005–2007 Photography: Tate Images (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Chris Ofili, No Woman, No Cry, 1998 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Chris Ofili, Afrodizzia (2nd version), 1996 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Chris Ofili, watched over by the wind, river meets forest in the light of the sun, 2020–2025

  • Biography
    View works. Chris Ofili, Crowning of a Satyr (Blue), 2021
    Crowning of a Satyr (Blue), 2021
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    Chris Ofili was born in Manchester, England, in 1968, and lives and works in Trinidad. After completing his Foundation course at Tameside College of Technology he received a BA in Fine Art from the Chelsea School of Art in 1991, followed by an MA in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art in 1993.

    Major presentations of the artist’s work have been staged by institutions including Tate Britain, London (2023–24, 2010, 2005); Fondazione Prada, Milan (2023–24); The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York (2019); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2017–19); National Gallery, London (2017); New Museum, New York (2014–15), travelling to Aspen Art Museum (2015); The Arts Club of Chicago (2010); kestnergesellschaft; Hannover (2006), The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2005); and Southampton City Art Gallery (1998), travelling to Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (1998), and Serpentine Gallery, London (1998–99).

    Architectural and large-scale projects have been commissioned by Tate Britain, London (2023); the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2017); PEER, London (2016); The Royal Opera House, London (2014); National Gallery, London and The Royal Ballet, London (2012); The Stephen Lawrence Centre, London (2007); Nobel Peace Center, Oslo (2005); and Kent County Council (2002).

    Ofili’s works are held in the permanent collections of museums including the British Museum, London; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Dallas Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; National Portrait Gallery, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Tate, United Kingdom; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art, Cape Town.

    The artist represented Britain in the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and won the Turner Prize in 1998. He was awarded a CBE for his services to art in 2017.

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  • News
    • Chris Ofili features in The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth

      Chris Ofili features in The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth

      March 15, 2025
      On view 15 March–15 October 2025, the exhibition builds on the work of an important lineage of landscape designers, gardeners, scientists and botanists who, over...
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    • When We See Us – A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, featuring Kudzanai-Violet Hwami and Chris Ofili, at Bozar, Brussels

      When We See Us – A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, featuring Kudzanai-Violet Hwami and Chris Ofili, at Bozar, Brussels

      February 3, 2025
      On view 7 February-10 August 2025, this exhibition of Black figurative painting from the 1920s to the present day features approximately 150 works by some...
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    • The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, featuring Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Wangechi Mutu and Chris Ofili, travels to Philadelphia Museum of Art

      The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, featuring Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Wangechi Mutu and Chris Ofili, travels to Philadelphia Museum of Art

      November 5, 2024
      Curated by Ekow Eshun and organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London, the exhibition (on view in Philadelphia 9 November 2024-9 February 2025) showcases the...
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    • Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird’s Song – on view in Edinburgh

      Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird’s Song – on view in Edinburgh

      June 28, 2024
      Chris Ofili's major tapestry with Dovecot Studios returns to Scotland this summer. The Caged Bird's Song, commissioned by The Clothworkers' Company, is shown in the context of the tapestry studio where the work was created.
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    • Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami and Chris Ofili feature in When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting

      Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami and Chris Ofili feature in When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting

      May 16, 2024
      On view from 25 May–27 October 2024, this exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel brings together works by 120 artists.
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    • Works by Wangechi Mutu and Chris Ofili are featured in The Infinite Woman at Fondation Carmignac

      Works by Wangechi Mutu and Chris Ofili are featured in The Infinite Woman at Fondation Carmignac

      April 26, 2024
      This group exhibition on the island of Porquerolles (until 2 November 2024), in the South of France, reflects on how women have been represented over the centuries.
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    • Isaac Julien, Alice Neel and Chris Ofili feature in the Frieze top ten shows in the UK and Ireland in 2023

      Isaac Julien, Alice Neel and Chris Ofili feature in the Frieze top ten shows in the UK and Ireland in 2023

      December 8, 2023
      Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is to Me at Tate Britain, Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle at the Barbican Art Gallery and Chris Ofili: The...
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    • ‘I want this to hit people in the gut’ – Chris Ofili talks to the Guardian about Requiem

      ‘I want this to hit people in the gut’ – Chris Ofili talks to the Guardian about Requiem

      September 12, 2023
      In May 2017 Chris Ofili was at a gathering on the Lido in Venice, following the opening of an exhibition, when he was told a...
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    • Requiem by Chris Ofili is unveiled at Tate Britain

      Requiem by Chris Ofili is unveiled at Tate Britain

      September 12, 2023
      A major new site-specific work by Chris Ofili is unveiled at Tate Britain. Spanning three walls, Requiem pays tribute to fellow artist Khadija Saye and...
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    • Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins is reviewed by Tom Morton for ArtReview

      Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins is reviewed by Tom Morton for ArtReview

      July 3, 2023
      A new exhibition conjures a voluptuous unearthly realm where transgression gives way to fantasy in disorientating works that dazzle the viewer Which deity presides over...
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    • Chloë Ashby reviews Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins for Frieze

      Chloë Ashby reviews Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins for Frieze

      June 12, 2023
      Never before have I seen such a sassy satyr. Or is he a minotaur? The devil? A man? The fantastical beast reclines in the undergrowth,...
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    • Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins reviewed by Ben Luke

      Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins reviewed by Ben Luke

      June 2, 2023
      Just over a decade ago, Chris Ofili contributed to a fascinating show at the National Gallery in London called Metamorphosis: Titian. It provoked from him...
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    • Adrian Searle reviews Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins

      Adrian Searle reviews Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins

      June 2, 2023
      ★★★★★ Cloven-hoofed, carnal and knowing, the devil is prominent in all seven of Chris Ofili’s suite of large-scale and deeply complex paintings, The Seven Deadly...
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    • Chris Ofili: Pink Daydreams of a Faun

      Chris Ofili: Pink Daydreams of a Faun

      June 2, 2023
      On view alongside his exhibition The Seven Deadly Sins, Chris Ofili’s Pink Daydreams of a Faun is a series of prints on unique Suminagashi paintings,...
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    • Works by Kudzanai Violet-Hwami, Chris Ofili, Paula Rego and Stephen Willats feature in Tate Britain’s rehang

      Works by Kudzanai Violet-Hwami, Chris Ofili, Paula Rego and Stephen Willats feature in Tate Britain’s rehang

      May 23, 2023
      Tate Britain has just opened a complete rehang of its collection — the first time in 10 years that the the gallery's free displays have...
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    • Works by Wangechi Mutu and Chris Ofili feature in the Hayward Gallery exhibition In the Black Fantastic

      Works by Wangechi Mutu and Chris Ofili feature in the Hayward Gallery exhibition In the Black Fantastic

      June 21, 2022
      Reviews for In The Black Fantastic ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ‘Unlikely to be a better show this year’ — Evening Standard ★ ★ ★...
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    • The Observer gives ★★★★★ for Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s

      The Observer gives ★★★★★ for Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s

      December 5, 2021
      'A mind-altering portrait of British Caribbean life through art': ★★★★★ from The Observer for Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s . Now at Tate Britain,...
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    • Works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Isaac Julien and Chris Ofili are featured in Life Between Islands at Tate Britain

      Works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Isaac Julien and Chris Ofili are featured in Life Between Islands at Tate Britain

      November 30, 2021
      This landmark group exhibition (1 December 2021–3 April 2022) explores the work of artists from the Caribbean who made their home in Britain, alongside other...
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    • Greek Myths – a print portfolio by Chris Ofili

      Greek Myths – a print portfolio by Chris Ofili

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    • Chris Ofili on Philip Guston’s City Limits, 1969, in Artforum

      Chris Ofili on Philip Guston’s City Limits, 1969, in Artforum

      February 9, 2021
      ‘Somehow, the sun never sets in this painting, but also, no matter how long I stare at the horizon, the sun never rises to shed...
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    • The Tokyo 2020 official posters, featuring work by Chris Ofili, go on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

      The Tokyo 2020 official posters, featuring work by Chris Ofili, go on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

      January 7, 2020
      Chris Ofili's The Games People Play is among commissioned works by leading contemporary artists. The works are on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art...
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    • Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem travels to The Gibbes Museum

      Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem travels to The Gibbes Museum

      May 1, 2019
      This major traveling exhibition (24 May–18 August 2019) created by the American Federation of Arts (AFA) in collaboration with The Studio Museum in Harlem features...
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    • Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem at the Museum of the African Diaspora

      Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem at the Museum of the African Diaspora

      January 16, 2019
      This major traveling exhibition (16 January–14 April 2019) created by the American Federation of Arts (AFA) in collaboration with The Studio Museum in Harlem features...
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    • Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Stan Douglas, Isaac Julien, Wangechi Mutu and Chris Ofili donate works to Creating Space: Artists for the Studio Museum in Harlem

      Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Stan Douglas, Isaac Julien, Wangechi Mutu and Chris Ofili donate works to Creating Space: Artists for the Studio Museum in Harlem

      May 10, 2018
      Sotheby's New York hosts the viewing (4 – 16 May 2018) and auction (16, 17 May 2018) of works to benefit the Studio Museum's new...
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    • As part of its Contemporary Classics series, Elephant writes about Black Hands, Chris Ofili’s clock commission for PEER

      As part of its Contemporary Classics series, Elephant writes about Black Hands, Chris Ofili’s clock commission for PEER

      May 6, 2018
      By Holly Black Last year, while taking a familiar shortcut through Hoxton Street in London on a particularly beautiful evening, I found myself in front...
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    • Adrian Searle selects Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic as one of his Top 10 Art Shows of 2017

      Adrian Searle selects Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic as one of his Top 10 Art Shows of 2017

      December 12, 2017
      Ofili turned a room at the National Gallery into an idyll. A nightclub mural of curvaceous, moustached floozies paraded and lounged around the walls in...
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    • Now open: ICA Miami, featuring an installation of paintings by Chris Ofili

      Now open: ICA Miami, featuring an installation of paintings by Chris Ofili

      November 9, 2017
      ICA Miami opens in its new home in the heart of the Miami Design District. Opening displays include a new installation of paintings by Chris...
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    • Zeitz MOCAA opens, featuring work by Isaac Julien, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Wangechi Mutu and Chris Ofili

      Zeitz MOCAA opens, featuring work by Isaac Julien, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Wangechi Mutu and Chris Ofili

      September 22, 2017
      Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) collects, preserves, researches, and exhibits twenty-first century art from Africa and its Diaspora; hosts international exhibitions; develops...
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    • Architectural Digest reports on Chris Ofili’s immersive art environment at MCA Chicago’s new restaurant

      Architectural Digest reports on Chris Ofili’s immersive art environment at MCA Chicago’s new restaurant

      September 8, 2017
      It’s a busy month for the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago. On Thursday the institution announced two major milestones in its 50-year history: the...
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    • Imagine… Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird’s Song reviewed in The Telegraph

      Imagine… Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird’s Song reviewed in The Telegraph

      July 15, 2017
      ‘This was the story of a remarkable commission.’ – Jasper Rees
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    • Imagine… Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird’s Song

      Imagine… Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird’s Song

      July 13, 2017
      Alan Yentob follows the celebrated Turner Prize winning artist Chris Ofili as he creates a spectacular contemporary tapestry over seven metres wide and three metres...
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    • Frieze reports on the return to Tate Britain of Chris Ofili’s Union Black

      Frieze reports on the return to Tate Britain of Chris Ofili’s Union Black

      July 4, 2017
      Chris Ofili's Union Black , gifted to Tate Britain, will be flown from the museum's roof this autumn. Union Black reworks the Union Jack in...
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    • Jackie Wullschlager selects Chris Ofili: Poolside Magic as one of her Venice highlights

      Jackie Wullschlager selects Chris Ofili: Poolside Magic as one of her Venice highlights

      May 13, 2017
      ‘This delicate series about metamorphosis and transformation… is good enough to call to mind Picasso’s Vollard Suite.’
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    • Artnews reviews Chris Ofili: Poolside Magic at Victoria Miro Venice

      Artnews reviews Chris Ofili: Poolside Magic at Victoria Miro Venice

      May 10, 2017
      ‘If you are in Venice right now, drop what you are doing and go see Poolside Magic, Chris Ofili's exhibition at the new space that London gallery Victoria Miro opened last night in San Marco.’
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    • The Spectator reviews Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic

      The Spectator reviews Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic

      May 5, 2017
      His National Gallery show, Weaving Magic, is good news for those of us who like art that is lovely to look at. By Martin Gayford...
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    • Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic at the National Gallery

      Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic at the National Gallery

      April 26, 2017
      The exhibition marks the first time the artist has worked in the medium of tapestry and will include a series of preparatory works on paper in an installation conceived by the artist for the Gallery's Sunley Room.
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    • The Telegraph reviews Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic

      The Telegraph reviews Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic

      April 25, 2017
      Chris Ofili - Weaving Magic, National Gallery: 'An irresistible pagan altar to art' ★★★★ By Alastair Sooke In a free display in its Sunley Room,...
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    • Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic reviewed in The Guardian

      Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic reviewed in The Guardian

      April 25, 2017
      ★★★★★ ‘Waterfalls and dancers, Maya Angelou and Mario Balotelli … Chris Ofili’s exotic reverie took five weavers three years to translate from watercolour to tapestry. The result plunges you into a heady over-ripe Eden.’ – Adrian Searle
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    • Chris Ofili discusses his forthcoming National Gallery exhibition and the enduring influence of Trinidad in The Observer

      Chris Ofili discusses his forthcoming National Gallery exhibition and the enduring influence of Trinidad in The Observer

      April 16, 2017
      Suffocated by his image as the ‘elephant dung YBA’, painter Chris Ofili left 12 years ago to live and work in Trinidad… Here he describes...
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    • Chris Ofili made CBE in New Year's Honours

      Chris Ofili made CBE in New Year's Honours

      January 4, 2017
      Chris Ofili Among Order of the British Empire Honorees for 2017 After the recent opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture...
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    • Just out: Protest publication

      Just out: Protest publication

      September 23, 2016
      This publication accompanies Protest at Victoria Miro, 23 September - 5 November 2016, an exhibition of historical and contemporary works by artists concerned with the...
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    • Power to... the art of protest, as featured in The Observer

      Power to... the art of protest, as featured in The Observer

      September 23, 2016
      Politically engaged art is thriving again, finding new ways to challenge in a complex digital world. We look at the rich history of protest art...
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    • Chris Ofili creates an exclusive cover for frieze twenty-fifth anniversary issue

      Chris Ofili creates an exclusive cover for frieze twenty-fifth anniversary issue

      August 22, 2016
      The September issue of frieze is out now, with an exclusively commissioned cover to celebrate the magazine's twenty-fifth anniversary by Chris Ofili (one of three...
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    • Chris Ofili: Black Hands at PEER

      Chris Ofili: Black Hands at PEER

      Now on view
      PEER has transformed the public realm space where Hoxton Street meets Fanshawe Street with trees, paving, a raised bed of planting, seating and bike parking...
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    • Chris Ofili profiled in The New Yorker

      Chris Ofili profiled in The New Yorker

      October 6, 2014
      INTO THE UNKNOWN. By Calvin Tomkins. Chris Ofili returns to New York with a major retrospective. Chris Ofili paints in a dilapidated white cottage on...
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  • Books
    • Chris Ofili: Joyful Sorrow

      Chris Ofili: Joyful Sorrow

      Text by the studio of Chris Ofili. Poems by Jason Allen-Paisant, 2024
      Softcover
      Publisher: Victoria Miro/David Zwirner Books
      ISBN: 9781644231593
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    • Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins

      Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins

      Hilton Als, Inua Ellams, Marlon James, Anthony Joseph, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, Attillah Springer, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, 2023
      Hardcover cover with three-piece binding and foil-blocking
      Publisher: Victoria Miro
      ISBN: 978–1–914506–07–9
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  • Gallery Exhibitions
    • Chris Ofili: Joyful Sorrow

      Chris Ofili: Joyful Sorrow

      26 Oct – 14 Dec 2024 Venice
      Joyful Sorrow is a two-site exhibition in Paris and Venice of the acclaimed British painter Chris Ofili’s newest body of work that continues his exploration of Shakespeare’s Othello.
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    • Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins

      Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins

      2 Jun – 29 Jul 2023 London Gallery I
      Victoria Miro is delighted to present The Seven Deadly Sins , a major new series of paintings by Chris Ofili. Completed over the past six years, the works on view...
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    • Chris Ofili: Harvest

      Chris Ofili: Harvest

      25 Jun – 10 Sep 2022 Venice
      Victoria Miro is delighted to present Harvest , an exhibition in Venice by Chris Ofili. The exhibition debuts a suite of new works that share the title Harvest – Flower...
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    • Chris Ofili: Poolside Magic

      Chris Ofili: Poolside Magic

      10 May – 8 Jul 2017 Venice
      Victoria Miro is pleased to announce the opening of a new gallery in Venice. The inaugural exhibition is Poolside Magic by Chris Ofili. T he exhibition comprises a suite of...
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    • Protest

      Protest

      23 Sep – 5 Nov 2016 London Gallery I
      Doug Aitken, Jules de Balincourt, Vlassis Caniaris, Elmgreen & Dragset, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Christian Holstad, Isaac Julien, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu, Alice Neel, Chris Ofili, Richard Prince, Sarah Sze, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Kara Walker.
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    • Chris Ofili: to take and to give

      Chris Ofili: to take and to give

      6 Oct – 21 Dec 2012 London Gallery II
      Over the past two years Ofili has worked on a substantial suite of paintings and works on paper inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses as part of Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 , a...
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    • In the Company of Alice

      In the Company of Alice

      22 Jun – 30 Jul 2010 London Gallery I
      'If you do not solve your painting problem in painting human beings, you do not solve it at all'. Gertrude Stein Hernan Bas, John Currin, Verne Dawson, Peter Doig, Marlene...
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    • Chris Ofili: Freedom One Day

      Chris Ofili: Freedom One Day

      25 Jun – 3 Aug 2002 London Gallery I
      This exhibition comprises two separate bodies of work created over the past three years. The Upper Room is a series of thirteen paintings each one a meditation on a single...
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    • Chris Ofili: New Works on Paper

      9 May – 23 Jun 2000 London Gallery I
      This is the first solo exhibition of Chris Ofili’s work in Britain since winning the 1998 Turner Prize. This much awaited exhibition concentrates on drawings – a lesser known aspect of Ofili’s oeuvre – which will constitute a new body of work at the gallery.
    • Raw

      Raw

      7 May – 30 Jun 2000 London Gallery I
      Yayoi Kusama. Francesca Woodman, Robin Lowe, Adriana Varejão, Isaac Julien, Doug Aitken, Abigail Lane, Hadrian Pigott, Brad Lochore, Cecily Brown, Chris Ofili, Andreas Gursky, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Inez van Lamsweerde,...
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    • Spot On

      9 Feb – 10 Mar 2000 Victoria Miro Cork Street
      Ross Bleckner, Peter Doig, Udomsak Krisanamis, Yayoi Kusama, Chris Ofili
    • Heads Will Roll

      14 Sep – 9 Oct 1998 Victoria Miro Cork Street
      Ian Hamilton Finlay, Robin Lowe, Dawn Mellor, Lars Nilson, Chris Ofili, Keir Smith
    • Chris Ofili: Afrodizziac

      25 May – 21 Jun 1996 Victoria Miro Cork Street
    • Group exhibition

      22 Nov 1994 – 13 Jan 1995 Victoria Miro Cork Street
      Peter Doig, Masakatsu Kondo, Brad Lochore, Nicholas May, Chris Ofili
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