The Holy Virgin Mary (1996) No Woman No Cry (1998) The Upper Room (2002)
Awards
1998 Turner Prize
Red Bird - watercolour on paper
Christopher Ofili, CBE (born 10 October 1968) is a British painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung. He was Turner Prize-winner and one of the Young British Artists. Since 2005, Ofili has been living and working in Trinidad and Tobago, where he currently resides in the city of Port of Spain. He also has lived and worked in London and Brooklyn.[1]
Ofili has utilized resin, beads, oil paint, glitter, lumps of elephant dung and cut-outs from pornographic magazines as painting elements. His work has been classified as punk art.
^Calvin Tomkins (6 October 2014), "Into the Unknown: Chris Ofili returns to New York with a major retrospective", The New Yorker.
ChrisOfili returns to New York with a major retrospective", The New Yorker. "Ofili, Chris, b.1968". Art UK. Retrieved 10 February 2023. ChrisOfili Brief...
The Holy Virgin Mary is a mixed media painting created by ChrisOfili in 1996 that utilizes elephant dung and pornographic images. It was one of the works...
guest "castaway" on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on 10 June 2012. ChrisOfili's 1998 painting No Woman No Cry is a portrait of Doreen Lawrence crying;...
Ofili is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ChrisOfili (born 1968), British artist Cindy Ofili (born 1994), American-born British track...
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and art historian Gani Odutokun (1946–1995), painter and illustrator ChrisOfili (born 1968), British painter of Nigerian descent Uche Okeke (1933–2016)...
the inclusion of ChrisOfili's work "The Holy Virgin Mary". In 1997, Gillian Wearing won the annual Turner Prize. In 1998, ChrisOfili won the annual Turner...
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the Harlem Renaissance, and selected works by the Afro-British painter ChrisOfili. Her work draws from Western art history, pop art, and visual culture...
exaggerated figures and satirical humor to critique modern society. ChrisOfili: British painter of the 21st century, known for his use of unconventional...
picket the Brooklyn Museum of Art to protest its display of a painting by ChrisOfili titled The Holy Virgin Mary that, according to The New York Times, depicted...
announced that Mark Wallinger would be one of three artists (along with ChrisOfili and Conrad Shawcross) to collaborate with the Royal Ballet and the National...
rugby player Esther Odekunle, neurobiologist and antibody engineer ChrisOfili, artist Michelle Ogundehin, television presenter Adebayo Ogunlesi, investment...
alerted the press to the fact that the Tate had purchased a work by ChrisOfili, The Upper Room, for £705,000 while the artist was a serving Tate trustee...
Serrano's Piss Christ, featuring a crucifix in a beaker of urine, and ChrisOfili's The Holy Virgin Mary, a multi-media painting which is partially made...
part of the Summer Exhibition. This followed his invitation, along with ChrisOfili and Mark Wallinger, to create works inspired by Titian's masterpieces...
media exposure. Sale prices of the winners have generally increased. ChrisOfili, Anish Kapoor and Jeremy Deller later became trustees of the Tate. Some...
Contemporary Art (2002); harlemworld: Metropolis as Metaphor (2004); ChrisOfili: Afro Muses (2005); Frequency (2005–06), with Christine Y. Kim; Africa...
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Joseph Kosuth, Mark Manders, Paul McCarthy, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, ChrisOfili, Charles Ray, Josh Smith, Kiki Smith, Christiana Soulou, Haim Steinbach...
who would become known as the "Young British Artists": Damien Hirst, ChrisOfili, Rachel Whiteread, Tracey Emin, Mark Wallinger, Steve McQueen, Sam Taylor-Wood...
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