Chris Ofili
born 1968
© Chris Ofili, courtesy Victoria Miro, London
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Biography
Christopher Ofili, (born 10 October 1968) is a British Turner Prize-winning painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung. He was one of the Young British Artists. Since 2005, Ofili has been living and working in Trinidad and Tobago, where he currently resides in Port of Spain. He also lives and works in London and Brooklyn.
Ofili has utilized resin, beads, oil paint, glitter, lumps of elephant dung, cut-outs from porn magazines as painting elements. His work has been classified as "punk art."
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
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Chris Ofili No Woman, No Cry
1998 -
Chris Ofili Untitled
1998 -
Chris Ofili Double Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Stars
1997 -
Chris Ofili Blue Devils
2014 -
Chris Ofili afro
2000 -
Chris Ofili The Upper Room
1999–2002 -
Chris Ofili Union Black
2003 -
Chris Ofili R.I.P. Stephen Lawrence 1974 - 1993
2013
Film and audio
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In the Gallery
The Story of No Woman, No Cry: Audio Description
Listen to and watch an in-depth audio description of Chris Ofili's No Woman, No Cry -
Podcast
Walks of art: Grace Dent on the YBAs and Shoreditch
The journalist journeys through East London to explore the artists who lived and worked there in the nineties -
TateShots
Conserving Chris Ofili
Witness the conservation department in action making a series of Chris Ofili replica paintings -
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David Adjaye on Chris Ofili
Chris Ofili's The Upper Room was first displayed in 2002, to great critical acclaim. This installation, on show in the … -
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Afrodizzia: Ofili in Focus
Tim Marlow joins a panel including Bonnie Greer, Leon Wainwright and Gayle Chong Kwan to discuss Chris Ofili and his … -
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Chris Ofili: Curator's Talk
Judith Nesbitt, Chief Curator at Tate Britain, shares her experience of curating the current Chris Ofili exhibition. -
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INSA on Chris Ofili
Graffiti artist and shoe designer INSA responds to Chris Ofili's 2010 exhibition -
TateShots
Chris Ofili: Exploding the crystal
Through oil painting, Chris Ofili explores concerns about imagery, identity and violence -
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Living History: No Woman No Cry
This discussion between Doreen Lawrence, mother of Stephen; Ekow Eshun, broadcaster and director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in …
Features
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In the Gallery
A Queer Walk Through British Art
Discover queer responses to our collection at Tate Britain, curated by members of the LGBTQ+ community at Tate and beyond -
Tate Papers
The Upper Room: A Study of Materials and Stability
Chris Ofili’s The Upper Room 1999–2002 consists of thirteen paintings displayed within a specially designed and carefully lit room. This … -
Tate Etc
Rudely transgressing the boundaries between the elevated and the profane
Etc. Essay: The grotesque -
Tate Etc
In search of the real me: Chris Ofili
Christy Lange talks to Chris Ofili ahead of his exhibition at Tate Britain -
Tate Etc
The death of the body
The body matters, more than at any other time in history. As Abi Titmuss appears in a Sapphic embrace on … -
Tate Etc
Seven faces of the art vandal
From the suffragette who took a cleaver to Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery in 1914 to the outraged … -
Tate Etc
He is poetic, but...: Luc Tuymans
To coincide with the Luc Tuymans show at Tate Modern, the first large-scale exhibition of his work in the UK, …
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