Chris Ofili

born 1968

In Tate Liverpool

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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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Artworks

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Chris Ofili No Woman, No Cry

1998

On display at Tate Liverpool part of Constellations
Chris Ofili Untitled

1998
Chris Ofili Blue Devils

2014
Chris Ofili afro

2000
Chris Ofili Double Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Stars

1997
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Chris Ofili The Upper Room

1999–2002
Chris Ofili Union Black

2003
Chris Ofili R.I.P. Stephen Lawrence 1974 - 1993

2013

On display at Tate Liverpool part of Ideas Depot

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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
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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

Natasha Walker and Joyce H. Townsend

Chris Ofili’s The Upper Room 1999–2002 consists of thirteen paintings displayed within a specially designed and carefully lit room. This …
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Rudely transgressing the boundaries between the elevated and the profane

Jonathan Griffin

Etc. Essay: The grotesque
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In search of the real me: Chris Ofili

Christy Lange and Chris Ofili

Christy Lange talks to Chris Ofili ahead of his exhibition at Tate Britain
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The death of the body

Nicholas Blincoe

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

Brian Dillon

From the suffragette who took a cleaver to Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery in 1914 to the outraged …
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He is poetic, but...: Luc Tuymans

Adrian Searle , Paulina Olowska , Peter Doig and Chris Ofili

To coincide with the Luc Tuymans show at Tate Modern, the first large-scale exhibition of his work in the UK, …