Chris Ofili
Curriculum Vitae
Born in Manchester, England in 1968
Education
1987-88
Thameside College of Technology (Foundation Course)
1988-91
Chelsea School of Art, London (BA Fine Art)
1992
Exchange to Hochschule der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
1991-93
Royal College of Art, London (MA Fine Art)
Solo Exhibitions
2003
British Pavilion, Venice Biannale, June 2003
2002
Freedom One Day, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2001
Chris Ofili Watercolours, Gallery Side 2, Japan
2000
Chris Ofili Drawings Victoria Miro Gallery.London
1999
Afrobiotics Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
Le Case d'Arte, Milan
1998-99
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
1998
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton,
Serpentine Gallery, London
1997
Pimpin ain't easy but it sure is fun, Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin
1996
Afrodizzia, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1995
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
1991
Paintings and Drawings, Kepler Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions
2002
drawing now: eight propositions, MoMA, Qns, New York
Live is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcaslte upon Tyne
Cave Painting, Santa Monika Museum of Art, CA
2001-02
One Planet under a groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, Touring to Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta
2001-02
Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli, Italy
2001
Works on Paper, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Works On Paper: from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2000
Nurture & Desire, The South Bank Centre, London
Ant Noises 1, The Saatchi Gallery, London
Sydney Bienniale Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Raw Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1999-00
History of the Turner Prize, ArtSway, Hampshire
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
1999
Sensation. Young British Artists From The Saatchi Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
6th International Istanbul Biennial, curated by Paolo Colombo Turkey
Trouble Spot Painting, NICC and MUHKA, Antwerp
1998-99
The Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
1998
Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
The Jerwood Foundation Painting Prize, Jerwood Gallery, London
Heads willl roll, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
A to Z, (curated by Matthew Higgs), The approach, London
Pictura Britannica, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990's, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
1997-98
Pictura Britannica, Art Gallery of Australia, Adelaide
Date with an artist, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
1997
Dimensions Variable. Touring exhibition organised by The British Council travelling to Helsinki City Art Museum; Stockholm Royal Academy of Free Arts; Soros Centre for Contemporary Art; Gallery Zacheta, Warsaw; Städtische Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz; Prague National Gallery of Modern Art; Zagreb Union of Croatian Artists; Magistrat der Stradt Darmstadt, Germany; Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre; Budapest Museum of Contemporary Arts and Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Slovak National Gallery Bratislava; Bucharest National Theatre Galleries
20th John Moores Liverpool Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Minor Sensation, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Package Holiday, New British Art in the Ophiuchus Collection, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece
About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990's, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich
About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990's, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Belladonna, ICA, London
Popoccultural, curated by Cabinet Gallery, Southampton City Gallery
1996-97
Mothership Connection, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam
1996-97
British Art Show 4, toured to Manchester, Edinburgh & Cardiff
1996
Popoccultural, curated by Cabinet Gallery, South London Gallery
Wingate Young Artists Award, Art '96, Business Design Centre, Islington, London
Brilliant! New Art From London, Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas
Maps Elsewhere, Institute of International Visual Arts, London
NowHere, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Young British Artists, curated by Glenn Scott Wright, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Paddington, Australia
1995-96
About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990's, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1995
Selections Spring '95, The Drawing Centre, New York
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, LA Invitational, Los Angeles
Brilliant! New Art from London, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
A Bonnie Situation, Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin
Contained, Cultural Instructions, curated by Godfrey Worsdale, London
John Moore's Exhibition, Walker Art Centre, Liverpool
Im/Pure, Osterwalder's Art Office, Hamburg, curated by Glenn Scott Wright
Prints, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
Cocaine Orgasm, Bank Space, London
1994-95
Painting Show, Victoria Miro Gallery
1994
Take Five, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London
Miniatures, The Agency, London
1993-94
BT New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, Stoke-on-Trent Gallery, CCA, Glasgow
1993
To Boldly Go, curated by Stuart Morgan, Cubitt Street Gallery, London
Riverside Open, Riverside Gallery, London
Tokyo Print Biennale, Manchida City Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Lift, Atlantis Basement, London
Borderless Print, curated by Maud Sulter, Rochdale Art Gallery, London
Shit Sale, Strasse 17 Juni, Berlin
Shit Sale, Brick Lane, London
1992-93
Pachipamwe International artists' workshop exhibition, Bulawayo Art Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
1991
Blauer Montag, curated by Killian Dellers, Raum für Kunst, Basel, Switzerland
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery
Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
1990
Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
1989
Whitworth Young Contemporaries (Prizewinner), Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Awards
1998
Winner Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
1996
Absolut Vodka commission for About Vision, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1996
Wingate Young Artist Award
1993
Second Prizewinner Tokyo Print Bienalle
1992
British Council Travel Scholarship, Zimbabwe, Africa
Erasmus Exchange to Berlin, Germany
1989
Chistopher Head drawing Scholarship
Reviews & Articles, Television
2002
Aura Satz, Chris Ofili Profile, Tema Celeste
Tom Morton, Review of Freedom One Day, Frieze
Jason Jules, Dyeing for intimacy, An interview with Chris Ofili, Untold Magazine
John Russel Taylor, Shunned Riches of Exiles, The Times
Tom Lubbock, Monkey Business, Independent
Laura Cumming, The Eden Project, The Observer
John McEwen, Exuberant colour and elephant dung, Sunday Telegraph
Sarah Kent, Chris Ofili, Review, Time Out
Martin Gayford, Triumph of the Elephant Man, Daily Telegraph
Waldemar Januszczak, King of the Swingers, Sunday Times
Nick Hackworth, In an African Nirvana, Evening Standard
Adrian Searle, Monkey Magic, The Guardian
Jonathon Jones. Paradise Reclaimed, Cover Story, Weekend, The Guardian
2000
Paul D. Miller. Deep Shit, An Interview with Chris Ofili. Parkett 58
1999
Coco Fusco. Captain Shit and Other Allegories of Black Stardom. Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art.
1998
Raekha Prasad. An exciting splash of colour, The Guardian Review
Kodwo Eshun. An Ofili big adventure, Arena
Jennifer Higgie. Chris Ofili, Southampton City Art Gallery, Frieze, Issue 42
Martin Coomer. The boy dung good, Time Out, No. 1467 (Sep 30 - Oct 7)
David Lister. Dung, entails and sex vie for Turner, The Independent
Adrian Searle. Top Plop, The Guardian
1997
Keith Alexander. Date with an artist, BBC Television
Terry R. Myers. Chris Ofili, Power Man, art/text, No. 58 (ill), pp36-39
1996
The rumour is..., interview in Dazed & Confused No.21,pp26-27
Godfrey Worsdale. Chris Ofili/Victoria Miro Gallery, Art Monthly, No.198, pp27-28
1994
Stuart Morgan. The Elephant Man, Frieze, no.15, pp40-43
Books and Catalogues
2002
drawing now: eight propositions, Laura Hoptman, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Upper Room, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Freedom One Day, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
CavePainting, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA
2001
Public Offerings, Paul Schimmel etc,.Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Thames & Hudson, London
2000
High Art Lite , by Julian Stallabrass, Verso, London & New York.
Biennale of Sydney 2000, MCA Sydney, Australia
1999
ZOO, Issue 1, Purple House Limited. Edited by Eliza Williams
Trouble Spot . Painting, Edited by Kurt Vanbelleghem and Tim Vermeulen, NICC and MUHKA, Antwerp
VISION. 50 Years of British Creativity, Thames and Hudson, London
Young British Art. The Saatchi Decade, Booth-Clibborn Editions, London
6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts
CI:99/01/V.01, Carnegie International, 1999/2000, David S. Frankel etc., Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1998
Chris Ofili, Essays by Godfrey Worsdale and Lisa G. Corrin. Published by order of Southampton City Art Gallery and the Serpentine Gallery, London
Jerwood Painting Prize '98, Jerwood Foundation, London
1997
Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Brooks Adams, Lisa Jardine, Martin Maloney, Norman Rosenthal, Richard Shone, Royal Academy of Arts in association with Thames and Hudson, London
Dimensions Variable. New Works from the British Council Collection, Ann Gallagher, The British Council
Pictura Britannica, Curated by Berniece Murphy, MCA, Sydney
Blimey! From Bohemia to Britpop: The London Artworld from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst, Matthew Collings, 21, Cambridge
Moving Targets: A User's Guide to British Art Now, Louisa Buck, Tate Gallery Publishing Limited
Date with an artist, Keith Alexander and Louise Wirz, BBC Education Production
1996
About Vision, New British Painting in the 1990's, Foreword by David Elliott, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
NowHere, Managing Editor Henning Steen Hansen, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
1995
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 19, Foreword by Richard Foster and Julian Treuherz, National Galleries & Museums on Merseyside
Brilliant! New Art from London. Catalogue essays by Stuart Morgan, Neville
Wakefield,Richard Flood, Douglas Fogle. Walker Art Center Publications, Minneapolis, USA
Collections
Saatchi Collection, London
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Tate Gallery, London
British Council
Arts Council Collection
Carnegie Museum of Art
Contemporary Arts Society
Goetz Collection, Munich
Dakis Joannou
Various Private Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York. NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA