Chris Ofili
born 1968
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Christopher Ofili, known as Chris Ofili (born 10 October 1968), is a Nigerian 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.
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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 ...
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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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Bring The Noise: WAH Nails
Sharmadean Reid not only located her WAH nail salon to Tate Britain for the day but she kindly let our ...
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Bring The Noise: GoldieLocks
Dubstep-Pop Princess GoldieLocks responds to Chris Ofili’s work at the recent Bring the Noise event. Tickets for the Chris ...
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Bring The Noise: Adam Deacon
Charlie Dark has a chin wag in the Ofili exhibition with award winning actor Adam Deacon. He discusses his inspiration ...
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Bring The Noise: Cooly G
Cooly G livened up the gallery at the weekend with her funky house and deep dub step sound. Take a ...
Features
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 ...
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
Press Release
Tate Liverpool announces exhibition programme for 2010
17 Sep 2009
Tate Liverpool announces exhibition programme for 2010: Press related to exhibition programme.
Press Release
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 ...
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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 ...
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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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