1. Chris Ofili was Turner Prize-winner and one of the Young British Artists.
17 Facts About Chris Ofili
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Since 2005, Ofili has been living and working in Trinidad and Tobago, where he currently resides in the city of Port of Spain.
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Chris Ofili has lived and worked in London and Brooklyn.
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Chris Ofili has utilized resin, beads, oil paint, glitter, lumps of elephant dung and cut-outs from pornographic magazines as painting elements.
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Chris Ofili was for some years educated at St Pius X High School for Boys, and then at Xaverian College in Victoria Park, Manchester.
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Chris Ofili completed a foundation course in art at Tameside College in Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester and then studied in London, at the Chelsea School of Art from 1988 to 1991 and at the Royal College of Art from 1991 to 1993.
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Chris Ofili visited Trinidad for the first time in 2000, when he was invited by an international art trust to attend a painting workshop in Port of Spain.
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Chris Ofili maintains a studio in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
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Peter Doig was doing graduate work at the Chelsea College of Arts when Chris Ofili was an undergraduate, and they soon became friends.
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In 2014, art critic Roberta Smith held that Ofili has much in common with painters like Mickalene Thomas, Kerry James Marshall, Robert Colescott and Ellen Gallagher, and with more distant precedents such as Bob Thompson, Beauford Delaney and William H Johnson.
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Chris Ofili has had numerous solo shows since the early 1990s, including at Southampton City Art Gallery.
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In 1998, Chris Ofili won the Turner Prize, and in 2003 he was selected to represent Britain at the 50th Venice Biennale of that year, where his work for the British Pavilion was done in collaboration with the architect David Adjaye.
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Chris Ofili studied cave paintings there, which had some effect on his style.
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Chris Ofili's work is often built up in layers of paint, resin, glitter, dung and other materials to create a collage.
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Chris Ofili has been founder and prime mover behind the short-lived Freeness Project.
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Chris Ofili was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to art.
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Chris Ofili was included in the 2019 edition of the Powerlist, ranking the 100 most influential Black Britons.