Chris Ofili: to take and to give
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 unique collaboration between the National Gallery and The Royal Opera House. Working alongside choreographers and dancers from The Royal Ballet on sets and costumes for a new ballet Diana & Actaeon has been a revelation to the artist and has sparked a prodigious body of work. Victoria Miro presents a large scale new painting, drawings and works on paper from this Ovidian series.
A new limited edition print Study for Ovid-Windfall (2012) accompanies the exhibition. Further information here. A fully illustrated catalogue Chris Ofili Ovid - Diana & Actaeon, with text by Catherine Lampert is available to buy from Victoria Miro (it is complimentary when purchased with a print).
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Chris Ofili features in The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth
March 15 2025On 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...Read More -
When We See Us – A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, featuring Kudzanai-Violet Hwami and Chris Ofili, at Bozar, Brussels
February 3 2025On 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...Read More
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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
November 5 2024Curated 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...Read More -
Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird’s Song – on view in Edinburgh
June 28 2024Chris 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.Read More
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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
December 8 2023Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is to Me at Tate Britain, Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle at the Barbican Art Gallery and Chris Ofili: The...Read More -
‘I want this to hit people in the gut’ – Chris Ofili talks to the Guardian about Requiem
September 12 2023In May 2017 Chris Ofili was at a gathering on the Lido in Venice, following the opening of an exhibition, when he was told a...Read More
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Requiem by Chris Ofili is unveiled at Tate Britain
September 12 2023A 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...Read More -
Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins is reviewed by Tom Morton for ArtReview
July 3 2023A new exhibition conjures a voluptuous unearthly realm where transgression gives way to fantasy in disorientating works that dazzle the viewer Which deity presides over...Read More
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Chloë Ashby reviews Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins for Frieze
June 12 2023Never before have I seen such a sassy satyr. Or is he a minotaur? The devil? A man? The fantastical beast reclines in the undergrowth,...Read More -
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...Read More
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Chris Ofili: Black Hands at PEER
Now on viewPEER has transformed the public realm space where Hoxton Street meets Fanshawe Street with trees, paving, a raised bed of planting, seating and bike parking...Read More -
Chris Ofili profiled in The New Yorker
October 6 2014INTO THE UNKNOWN. By Calvin Tomkins. Chris Ofili returns to New York with a major retrospective. Chris Ofili paints in a dilapidated white cottage on...Read More
