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1968 born in Manchester, United Kingdom
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
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
1991-93 Royal College of Art, London (MA Fine Art)
Grants
2004
Honorary Fellowship, The London Institute of Art, GB
Winner Southbank Award: Visual Arts, London, GB
1998
Winner Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London, GB
1996
Absolut Vodka commission for About Vision, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, GB
Wingate Young Artist Award
1993
Second Prizewinner Tokyo Print Bienale, JP
1992
British Council Travel Scholarship, Zimbabwe, Africa
Erasmus Exchange to Berlin,
1989
Chistopher Head drawing Scholarship
Solo Exhibitions
2007
„Chris Ofili”, David Zwirner, New York, USA
2006
„The Blue Rider Extended Remix“, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
2005
„The Blue Rider“, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
„The Upper Room“, Tate Britain, London, GB
„Afro Muses 1995 – 2005“, The Studio Museum Harlem, New York, USA
2003
„Within Reach”, British Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venedig / Venice, IT
2002
„Freedom One Day“, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, GB
2001
„Chris Ofili Watercolours“, Gallery Side 2, Tokio / Tokyo, JP
2000
„Chris Ofili Drawings“, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, GB
1999
„Afrobiotics“, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, USA
„Watercolours“, Le Case d’Arte, Mailand / Milan, IT
1998
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, GB
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton; Serpentine Gallery, London, GB
1997
„Pimpin ain’t easy but it sure is fun“, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
1996
„Afrodizzia“, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, GB
1995
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, USA
1991
„Paintings and Drawings“, Kepler Gallery, London, GB
Group Exhibitions
2008
„True Romance. Allegorien der Liebe von der Renaissance bis heute“, Kunsthalle, Wien / Vienna, AT, Villa Stuck, München / Munich
2007
„Star Power: Museum as Body Electric“, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA
„Mad Love: Young Art from Danish Private Collections”, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, DK
„Fractured Figure”, Deste Foundation, Athen, GR
„Leerräume des Erzählens", Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
„Traum und Trauma - Werke aus der Sammlung Dakis Joannou, Athen“, Kunsthalle, Wien / Vienna, AT
„Draw“, mima, Middlesbrough, GB
2006
„How to Improve the World - 60 years of British Art, Arts Council Collection”, Hayward Gallery, London, GB
„Surprise, Surprise”, ICA, London, GB
„Prints Now”, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, GB
„Infinite Painting“, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, IT
„The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now“, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2005
„After Cezanne“, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
„Baroque and Neobaroque“ Domus Atrium 2002, Salamanca, SP
„Drawing from the Modern: 1975 – 2005“, Museum of Modern Art,
New York, USA
„Early Work“, David Zwirner, New York, USA
„Translation“, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
„Provinzial – Engagement im Rheinland für zeitgenössische Kunst”, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
„Getting Emotional”, ICA, Boston, USA
„Artists & Prints: Part 2”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2004
„Faces in the Crowd, Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today”, Whitechapel Gallery, London / Castello di Rivolo, Museo d´Arte Contemporanea Turin, IT
„Huts“, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, IRL
„Monument to Now”, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athen / Athens, GR
„Seeds & Roots” Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
„Fabulism”, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NB
2003
„One Planet under a groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art“, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, USA
„Supernova”, Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collections, SFMoMA, San Francisco, USA
„Paradise City“, Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, GB, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, GB; National Gallery, Sunley Room, London, GB
„One Planet under a groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art“, Museum Villa Stuck, München
„Happiness“, Mori Art Museum, Tokio / Tokyo, JP
2002
„now: eight propositions“, MoMA, Qns, New York, USA
„Live is Beautiful“, Laing Art Gallery, Newcaslte upon Tyne, GB
„Cave Painting“, Santa Monika Museum of Art, Santa Monika, CA
2001
„One Planet under a groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art“, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, USA
„Form Follows Fiction“, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, IT
„Works on Paper“, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, IRL
„Works On Paper: from Acconci to Zittel“, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, GB
„Public Offerings“, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
2000
„Nurture & Desire“, The South Bank Centre, London, GB
„Ant Noises 1“, The Saatchi Gallery, London, GB
„Sydney Bienniale“, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AUS
„Raw“, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, GB
1999
„History of the Turner Prize“, ArtSway, Hampshire, GB
„Carnegie International“, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, GB
„Sensation. Young British Artists From The Saatchi Collection“, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA
6th International Istanbul Biennial, curated by Paolo Colombo, Istanbul, TUR
„Trouble Spot Painting“, NICC and MUHKA, Antwerpen / Antwerp, BE
“Dimensions Variable”, Magistrat der Stradt Darmstadt, Darmstadt; Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LTU; Budapest Museum of Contemporary Arts and Ludwig Museum, Budapest, HUN; Slovak National Gallery Bratislava, Bratislava, SVK; Bucharest National Theatre Galleries, Bukarest, RO
1998
„The Turner Prize“, Tate Gallery, London, GB
„Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection“, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
„The Jerwood Foundation Painting Prize“, Jerwood Gallery, London, GB
„Heads willl roll“, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, GB
„A to Z“, (curated by Matthew Higgs), The approach, London, GB
„Pictura Britannica“, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ
„About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990’s“, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, GB
“Dimensions Variable”, Stockholm Royal Academy of Free Arts, Stockholm, SWE; Soros Centre for Contemporary Art, Budapest, HUN ; Gallery Zacheta, Warsaw, PL; Städtische Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz; Prague National Gallery of Modern Art, CZE; Zagreb Union of, Croatian Artists, Zagreb, CRO
1997
„Pictura Britannica“, Art Gallery of Australia, Adelaide, AUS
„Date with an artist“, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, GB
“Dimensions Variable”, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, FN
„20th John Moores Liverpool Exhibition of Contemporary Painting“, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, GB
„Minor Sensation“, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, GB
„Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection“, Royal Academy of Arts, London, GB
„Pictura Britannica“, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AUS
„Package Holiday, New British Art in the Ophiuchus Collection“, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra, GR
„About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990’s“, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, GB; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, GB
„Belladonna“, ICA, London, GB
„Popoccultural“, curated by Cabinet Gallery, Southampton City Gallery, GB
1996
„Mothership Connection“, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, NL
„British Art Show 4“, Cornerhouse, Manchester, GB; British Council, Edinburgh, GB; Cardiff, GB
„Popoccultural“, curated by Cabinet Gallery, South London Gallery, London, GB
„Wingate Young Artists Award“, Art ‘96, Business Design Centre, Islington, London, GB
„Brilliant! New Art From London“, Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas, USA
„Maps Elsewhere“, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, GB
„NowHere“, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK
„Young British Artists“, curated by Glenn Scott Wright, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Paddington, AUS
1995
„About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990’s“, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, GB
„Selections Spring ‘95“, The Drawing Centre, New York, USA
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, LA Invitational, Los Angeles, USA
„Brilliant! New Art from London“, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA
„A Bonnie Situation“, Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin
„Contained“, Cultural Instructions, curated by Godfrey Worsdale, London, GB
„John Moore’s Exhibition“, Walker Art Centre, Liverpool, GB
„Im /Pure“, Osterwalder’s Art Office, curated by Glenn Scott Wright, Hamburg
„Prints“, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, USA
„Cocaine Orgasm“, Bank Space, London, GB
1994
„Painting Show“, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, GB
„Take Five“, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London, GB
„Miniatures“, The Agency, London, GB
1993
„BT New Contemporaries“, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, GB; Orchard Gallery, Derry, GB; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, GB; Stoke-on-Trent Gallery, CCA, Glasgow, GB
„To Boldly Go“, curated by Stuart Morgan, Cubitt Street Gallery, London, GB
„Riverside Open“, Riverside Gallery, London, GB
„Tokyo Print Biennale“, Manchida City Museum, Tokyo, JP
„Lift“, Atlantis Basement, London, GB
„Borderless Print“, curated by Maud Sulter, Rochdale Art Gallery, London, GB
„Shit Sale“, Strasse 17 Juni, Berlin, Brick Lane, London, GB
1992
„Pachipamwe International artists’ workshop exhibition“, Bulawayo Art Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
1991
„Blauer Montag“, curated by Killian Dellers, Raum für Kunst, Basel, CH
„BP Portrait Award“, National Portrait Gallery, London, GB
„Whitworth Young Contemporaries“, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, GB
1990
„Whitworth Young Contemporaries“, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, GB
„BP Portrait Award“, National Portrait Gallery, London, GB
1989
„Whitworth Young Contemporaries“ (Prizewinner), Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, GB
Collections
ADS Arts Ltd., New York, USA
Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London, GB
British Council Collection, GB
The British Museum, London, GB
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
César and Mima Reger, Puerto Rico,
Contemporary Art Society, London, GB
The Dakis Joannou Collection, GR
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt
The Eli Board Family Foundation, CA
Froehlich Collection, Stuttgart
Goetz Collection, Munich
Joselyn Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Judith Rothschild Collection, New York, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica, USA
Provinzial Versicherung, Düsseldorf
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Saatchi Collection, London, GB
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, GB
Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, USA
Tate Gallery, London, GB
Various Private Collections
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, GB
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