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Biography - Chris Ofili

CHRIS OFILI

Born:

Manchester, England, 1968
Lives and works in Trinidad.

Education:

1993 M.A. Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London, England
1991 B.A. Fine Art, Chelsea School of Art, London, England
1988 Tameside College of Technology, Lancashire, England

Solo Exhibitions:

2007 Devil’s Pie David Zwirner, New York, NY [catalogue]
2006 The Blue Rider Extended Remix Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
2005 The Upper Room, Tate Britain, London, England
Chris Ofili: The Blue Rider Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Afro Muses The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY [catalogue]
2003 Within Reach British Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy [catalogue]
2002 Freedom One Day Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England [catalogue]
2001 Chris Ofili Watercolours Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Chris Ofili Drawings Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
1999 Afrobiotics Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
Watercolours Le Case d’Arte, Milan, Italy
1998 Chris Ofili Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England traveled to Serpentine Gallery, London, England
Chris Ofili Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England
1997 Pimpin Ain’t Easy But It Sure Is Fun Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
1996 Afrodizzia Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
1995 Chris Ofili Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
1991 Paintings and Drawings Kepler Gallery, London, England

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2008 The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,Poughkeepsie, NY
History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
… And Then Again, Printed Series 1500 - 2007 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
2007 Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
True Romance: Allegories of Love from the Renaissance to the Present,Kunsthalle Wien,Vienna, Austria travels to Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany, Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian Albrechts Universität, Kiel, Germany
The Collector’s Art: The Twentieth and Twenty-first Century in Private and Corporate Collections in Düsseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf,Germany
The Fractured Figure, The Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Turner Prize: A Retrospective, Tate Britain, London, England
Leerräume des Erzählens, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Star Power: Museum as Body Electric, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO
Hunky Dory, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia [catalogue]
Dream and Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
Draw, Conversations Around the Legacy of Drawing, MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, England [catalogue]
2006 Painting Codes, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea Monfalcone,Monfalcone, Italy
How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art, Hayward Gallery, London,England
Surprise Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy
Desenhos: A-Z, Porta 33, Ilha da Madeira, Portugal
Prints Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England [catalogue]
Tokyo Blossoms. Deutsche Bank Collection Meets Zaha Hadid, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan [catalogue]
The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2005 After Cézanne, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Revelations: Reflecting British Art in the Arts Council Collection, Laing ArtGallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Drawing from the Modern: 1975-2005, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Artists & Prints: Masterworks from The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Early Work, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Tête à Tête, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Contemporary Erotic Drawing, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield,Connecticut
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Artists & Prints: Part 2, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France [catalogue]
Baroque and Neobaroque, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
2004 Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, WhitechapeArt Gallery, London, England traveled to Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Huts, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland [catalogue]
Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection, The Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Seeds & Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Fabulism, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
2003 Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA [catalogue]
Paradise, National Gallery, London, England traveled to Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, England; Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, England
The Dead Bird Show, Whitechapel Project Space, London, England
2002 Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, The Museum of Modern Art in Queens, Long Island City, NY
Life is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Cavepainting, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2001 One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
The Mystery of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany [catalogue]
Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Works on Paper, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Works on Paper: from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2000 Nurture & Desire, South Bank Centre, London, England
Ant Noises I, The Saatchi Gallery, London, England
2000 Biennale of Sydney, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Raw, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
1999 53rd Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
History of the Turner Prize, ArtSway, Hampshire, England
6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey [catalogue]
Trouble Spot Painting NICC and MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen,
Antwerp, Belgium
1998 The Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London, England
The Jerwood Foundation Painting Prize Exhibition, Jerwood Gallery, London,
Heads Will Roll, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
A to Z, curated by Matthew Higgs, The Approach, London, England
1997 Dimensions Variable, organized by the British Council, London, England & Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland travel to Royal Academy of Free Arts,Stockholm, Sweden; Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Budapest, Hungary; Gallery; Zachęta, Warsaw, Poland; Städtische Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz,Chemnitz, Czech Republic; Prague National Gallery of Modern Art, Prague, Czech Republic; Zagreb Union of Croatian Artists, Zagreb, Croatia; Magistratder Stadt Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany; Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; Budapest Museum of Contemporary Arts and Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Slovak National Gallery Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia; National Theatre Galleries, Bucharest, Romania
Sensation: Young British Artists from The Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy ofArts, London, England traveled to Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Date with an Artist, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England
20th John Moores Liverpool Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
Minor Sensation, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
Pictura Britannica, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia traveled to Art Gallery of Australia, Adelaide, Australia; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
Package Holiday, New British Art in the Ophiuchus Collection, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece
Belladonna, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Popoccultural, curated by Cabinet Gallery, Southampton City Gallery,Southampton, England traveled to South London Gallery, London
1996 Mothership Connection, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
British Art Show 4, Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland traveled to Millais Gallery, Southampton, England; Chapter, Cardiff, England
Wingate Young Artists Award, Art ’96, Business Design Centre, Islington, England
Maps Elsewhere, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, England
NowHere, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana, Denmark
Young British Artists, curated by Glenn Scott Wright, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery,Paddington, Australia
1995 About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, Christchurch Mansion,Ipswich, England traveled to The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
1995 Brilliant! New Art From London, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Selections Spring ’95, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
LA Invitational, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Bonnie Situation, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Contained, curated by Godfrey Worsdale, Cultural Instructions, London, England
19th John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
Im/Pure, curated by Glenn Scott Wright, Osterwalder’s Art Office, Hamburg,Germany
Prints, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
Cocaine Orgasm, Bank Space, London, England
1994 Painting Show, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
Take Five, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London, England
Miniatures, The Agency, London, England
1993 BT New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England traveled to Orchard Gallery, Derry, England; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England;Stoke-on- Trent Gallery, Staffordshire, England; Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
To Boldly Go, curated by Stuart Morgan, Cubitt Street Gallery, London, England
Riverside Open, Riverside Gallery, London, England
Tokyo Print Biennale, Manchida City Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Lift, Atlantis Basement, London, England
Borderless Print, curated by Maud Sulter, Rochdale Art Gallery, London
Shit Sale, Strasse des 17 Juni, Berlin, Germany [itinerary: Brick Lane, London
1992 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 Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, England
Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England
1990 Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England
BP Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, England
1989 Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England

Public and Private Collections:

ADS Arts Ltd., New York, NY
Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London, England
British Council Collection, London, England
The British Museum, London, England
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
César and Mima Reyes, Puerto Rico
Contemporary Art Society, London, England
The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
The Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Froehlich Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, NE
Judith Rothschild Collection, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Darsie Alexander Darsie Alexander The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica, CA
Ole Faarup, Copenhagen, Denmark
Provinziaal Versicherung, Düsseldorf, Germany
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
The Saatchi Collection, London, England
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Tate Gallery, London, England
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Victoria and Warren Miro, London, England
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England

Bibliography:

2007 Azimi, Roxana. “Ofili’s Virgin Mary to be Shown in Australia—Finally.” The Art Newspaper (December 2007): 1. [ill.]
Baker, R.C. “Chris Ofili: Devil’s Pie.” The Village Voice (Oct 24-30, 2007): 58.Cohen, David. “Chris Ofili at David Zwirner.” The New York Sun (Oct11, 2007): 18. [ill.]
Cotter, Holland. “Chris Ofili: Devil’s Pie.” The New York Times (Oct 19,2007):E35. [ill.]
Cotter, Holland. “Last Chance, Chris Ofili: ‘Devil’s Pie’.” The New York Times (Nov 2, 2007): E23.
Cyphers Wright, Jeffrey. “Myth and Nature do the Wild Thing.” Çhelsea Now (Sept 28-Oct 4, 2007): 24.
Enwezor, Okwui. “Best of 2007: Okwui Enwezor.” Artforum (Dec 2007): 316-317.[ill.]
Kazanjian, Dodie. “Body and Mind.” Vogue (September 2007): 634, 636. [ill.]
Kunitz, Daniel. “The Devil and Chris Ofili.” Village Voice (Oct17-23, 2007): 152. [ill.]
Saltz, Jerry. “The Elephant in the Room.” New York Magazine (Oct 7, 2007): 95-95. [ill.]
Turner, Jonathan. “Chris Ofili at David Zwirner.” ARTnews (Dec2007): 152. [ill.]
Wainwright, Leon. “Peter Doig and Chris Ofili.” BOMB, No. 101 (Fall 2007): 32-41.
“Moody Blues.” Time Out New York (September 20-26, 2007): 86, 88.
“Quite Contrary Chris Ofili Reinvents Mary Magdalene.” Time Out New York(Oct 4-10, 2007): 67.
“Who’s Shocking Now?” The Guardian Weekend (Sept 8, 2007): 18-34. [ill.]
2006 Glueck, Grace. “The Enduring Allure of Scratching on Metal.” The New York Times (March 9, 2006)
Kimmelman, Michael. “A Startling New Lesson in the Power of Imagery.” The New York Times(February 9, 2006): E1, E8.
Koerner von Gustorf, Oliver. “Modernist Blues: Chris Ofili’s The Blue Rider Extended Remix.” DB-ArtMag (October 2006)
Quin, John. “Chris Ofili: The Blue Rider.” Contemporary, No. 81 (2006): 84-85.
“Blauer Reiter Reloaded.” Der Spiegel (June 26, 2006)
“Painters’ Paintings: Brice Marden and Chris Ofili in Conversation.” Artforum (October 2006): 219. [ill.]
2005 Berwick, Carly. “Gavel to Gavel Coverage.” New York Magazine(November 7, 2005): 112-113.
Budick, Ariella. “Modern Folk Muses.” Newsday (May 1, 2005): C8-C9.
Casely-Hayford, Augustus. “The Upper Room.” Art Quarterly (Winter 2005): 26-29.[ill.]
Cohen, David. “Gallery-Going.” The New York Sun (June 30, 2005): 17.
Goodbody, Bridget L. “Chris Ofili, ‘Afro Muses’.” Time Out New York (May 12-18, 2005):74.
Higgins, Charlotte. “Taking the Tate Into the Future.” The Guardian (Sept 12, 2005)
Kimmelman, Michael. “Wake Up. Wash Face. Do Routine. Now Paint.” The New York Times (May 8, 2005): 1, 21.
Kimmelman, Michael. “The Week Ahead: Art.” The New York Times (May 1, 2005): 49.
Lubbock, Tom. “Been There Dung That.” The Independent (Sept 19, 2005)
McGee, Celia. “Controversial Art is Over & Dung With.” Daily News (April 27, 2005): 40.
Naves, Mario. “Folk Art and Modernism Merge at Harlem’s Studio Museum.”The New York Observer (June 10, 2005)
Ofili, Chris. “The Artists’ Artists.” Artforum (December 2005): 108.
Searle, Adrian. “Ofili: The Blue Period.” The Guardian (Nov 22, 2005): 18-20. [ill.]
Sternbergh, Adam. “Aftershock.” New York Magazine (May 9, 2005): 84.
Thornton, Sarah. “The Power 100.” ArtReview (November 2005): 94.
Valdez, Sarah. “Chris Ofili at the Studio Museum in Harlem.” Art in America (December 2005): 147-148.
Vogel, Carol. “An Artist’s Gallery of Ideas.” The New York Times(May 5, 2005): E1, E7.
Westerbeke, Julia. “Portrait of a Lady.” Time Out New York (April 28 - May 4, 2005): 78.
2004 De Salvo, Donna. “My Pop: Chris Ofili.” Artforum (October 2004): 58.
2003 Campbell-Johnstone, Rachel. “Ofili Shines the Brightest Light.” The London Times (June 13, 2003)
Dorment, Richard. “Britain Turns up the Heat.” The Daily Telegraph (June 18, 2003)
Dorment, Richard. “The Chosen One.” Telegraph Magazine (June 14, 2003)
Eshun, Ekow. “Holy Shit!” The Fader Magazine (July/Aug2003): 110-133. [ill.]
Gayford, Martin. “Love in a Hot Climate.” The Sunday Telegraph (June 15, 2003)
Gibbons, Fiachra. “Artist’s Bold Display of Black Power Takes Venice by Storm.” The Guardian (June 13, 2003)
Glover, Michael. “Ofili’s Vibrant Portrayal of a Tropical Courtship…” The Independent (June 13, 2003)
Kent, Sarah. “Venice, Vidi, Vici.” Time Out London (July 2-9, 2003)
Lange, Christy. “Love in a Red-Hot Climate.” The Observer Review (June 15, 2003)
Searle, Adrian. “Stop That Racket.” The Guardian (June 17, 2003)
2002 Cumming, Laura. “The Eden Project.” The Observer (July 7, 2002)
Gayford, Martin. “Triumph of the Elephant Man.” Daily Telegraph (July 3, 2002)
Hackworth, Nick. “In an African Nirvana.” Evening Standard (June 25, 2002)
Jones, Jonathan. “Paradise Reclaimed.” The Weekend Guardian (June 15, 2002)
Kent, Sarah. “Chris Ofili.” Time Out London (July 3, 2002)
Lubbock, Tom. “Monkey Business.” The Independent (July 9, 2002)
McEwen, John. “Exuberant Colour and Elephant Dung.” The Sunday Telegraph (July 7, 2002)
Morton, Tom. “Review of Freedom One Day.” Frieze (Autumn 2002)
Satz, Aura. “Chris Ofili Profile.” Tema Celeste (Autumn 2002)
Searle, Adrian. “Monkey Magic.” The Guardian (June 25, 2002)
Taylor, John Russell. “Shunned Riches of Exiles.” The Times (July 10, 2002)
2000 MacRitchie, Lynn. “Ofili’s Glittering Icons.” Art in America (January 2000):96-101.[ill.] [cover]
Miller, Paul D. “Deep Shit, An Interview with Chris Ofili.” Parkett, No. 58(2000): 164-169. [ill.]
1999 Fusco, Coco. “Captain Shit and Other Allegories of Black Stardom.” Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art (Spring/Summer 1999)
1998 Collings, Matthew. “Art.” The Observer (December 6, 1998) [ill.]
Coomer, Martin. “The Boy Dung Good.” Time Out London (Sept 30 - Oct7, 1998): 14-15. [ill.]
Cork, Richard. “The name to droppings.” The Times (October 6, 1998) [ill.]
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“The Rumor Is…” Dazed & Confused, No. 21 (June 1996): 26-27.
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Books and Catalogs:

2008 Los Angeles, CA. The Museum of Contemporary Art. This is Not to be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,2008. Texts by Ann Goldstein, Rebecca Morse, and Paul Schimmel.
New York, NY and Göttingen, Germany. David Zwirner and Steidl. Devil’s Pie, 2007.Texts by Klaus Kertess and Cameron Shaw.
New York, NY. Phaidon Press. Art & Today, 2008. Text by Eleanor Heartney.
2007.Texts by Klaus Kertess and Cameron Shaw.New York, NY. Phaidon Press. Art & Today, 2008. Text by Eleanor Heartney.
New York, NY. The Museum of Modern Art. MOMA: Highlights Since 1980, 2007.
Tempe, Arizona. Arizona State University Art Museum. The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, 2008. Texts by Heather Sealy Lineberry, Derek Conrad Murray.
2007 Athens, Greece. Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art. The Fractured Figure, 2007. Texts by Jeffrey Deitch and Massimiliano Gioni.
Denver, CO. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Star Power: Museum as Body Electric, 2007.
Düsseldorf, Germany. Museum Kunst Palast. The Collector’s Art: The Twentieth and Twenty-first Century in Private and Corporate Collections in Düsseldorf, 2007
London, England. Tate Publishing. The Turner Prize, 2007, revised edition Text by Virginia Button. Middlesbrough, England MIMA MiddlesbroughInstitute of Modern Art. Draw Conversations around the Legacy of Drawing, 2.2007 Edited by Judith Winter and Godfrey Worsdale
Moscow, Russia. Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc. Hunky Dory, 2007. Text by V.Pukemova.
New York, NY. The Museum of Modern Art. MOMA: Highlights Since 1980,2007
New York, NY. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. Artworks: The Progressive Collection, 2007. Texts by Dan Cameron, Peter B. Lewis, Toby Devan Lewis, and Toni Morrison.
Vienna, Austria. Kunsthalle Wien. Dream and Trauma. Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, 2007 Texts byAngela Stief, Gerald Matt, Edelbert Köb, Hilary Rubenstein Hatch, and Elisabeth Bronfen
2006 Atlanta, GA. Georgia State University. Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship, 2006. Text by Svetlana Mintcheva, Cathy Byrd, Nina Felshin,Richard Meyer,Jon Lewis, Susan Richmond, Michelle Joan Wilkinson,Faith Wilding, Michael Landau, and Lisa Kincheloe.
Hannover, Germany. Kestner Gesellschaft. The Blue Rider, Extended Remix, 2006. Texts by Christoph Zuschlag, Bazon Brock, Carolina Grau, Greg Tate, Hilke Wagner, Louis Antwi,and John Quin.
Ilha da Madeira, Portugal. Coleccao Madeira Corporate Services. Desenhos [drawings]: A-Z, 2006. Texts by Adriano Pedrosa, Alexandre Melo, and Carla Zaccagnini.
London, England. Hayward Gallery Publishing. How To Improve The World: 60 Years of British Art, 2006. Edited by Michael Archer and Roger Malbert.
London, England. Victoria and Albert Museum. Prints Now: Directions and Definitions, 2006. Texts by Rosie Miles and Gill Saunders.
Monfalcone, Italy. Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea Monfalcone. Painting Codes, 2006. Edited by Andrea Bruciati and Alessandra Galasso.
New York, NY. Distributed Art Publishers. Painting People: Figure Painting Today, 2006. Text by Charlotte Mullins.
Tokyo, Japan. Hara Museum of Contemporary Art. Tokyo Blossoms: Deutsche Bank Collection Meets Zaha Hadid, 2006. Published by Deutsche Bank Art, Frankfurt. Texts by Oliver Koerner von Gustorf, Mark Rappolt,Christiane Meixner, Jonathan Napack, and Ariane Grigoteit.
Villa Manin, Italy. Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea. Infinite Painting:Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, 2006. Texts by Roberto Antonaz, Vittorino Boem, Francesco Bonami, and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto.
2005 Berlin, Germany. Contemporary Fine Arts. Chris Ofili: The Blue Rider, 2005. Texts by Christoph Zuschlag, Maria Aymerich, Cristina Bonet, Octgavi Grau, Adrian Searle, Claudia Vives-Fierro, Bazon Brock, Carolina Grau, Greg Tate, and Louis Antwi.
Boston, MA. Institute of Contemporary Art. Getting Emotional, 2005. Text by Nicholas Baume.
London, England. Thames & Hudson. Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, 2005. Texts by Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh.
New York, NY. The Museum of Modern Art. Drawing from the Modern: 1975-2005, 2005.
New York, NY. The Studio Museum in Harlem. Afro Muses 1995-2005, 2005. Texts by Thelma Golden, Hilton Als, and Beth Coleman.
Paris, France. Palais de Tokyo. Translation, 2005 Texts by Nicolas Bourriaud, Jerome Sans, and Marc Sanchez.
Ridgefield, CT. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Contemporary Erotic Drawing, 2005.Texts by Stuart Horodner, Sue Taylor, and Wayne Koestenbaum.
2004 Athens, Greece. The Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art. Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection, 2004. Edited by Jeffrey Deitch. Texts by Dan Cameron, Alison M. Gingeras, Massimiliano Gioni, and Nancy Spector.
Dublin, Ireland. The Douglas Hyde Gallery. Huts, 2004. Texts by Michael Hinds,John Hutchinson, and Tal R.
Milan, Italy. Skira Editore and S.p.A. Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, 2004. Texts by Iwona Blazwick and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
New York, NY. The Museum of Modern Art. Artists & Prints: Masterworks from The Museum of Modern Art, 2004. Texts by Deborah Wye, et al.
Omaha, NE. Joslyn Art Museum. Fabulism, 2004. Text by Klaus Kertess.
2003 London, England. Phaidon Press. Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, 2003. Text by Barry Schwabsky.
London, England. Victoria Miro Gallery. Within Reach: British Pavilion 50th Venice Biennale, 2003 Texts by Beth Coleman, Stuart Hall, Thelma Golden, and Adrian Searle
New York, NY and San Francisco, CA. Distributed Art Publishers and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Supernova Art of the 1990’s from the Logan Collection, 2003. Edited by Madeleine Grynsztejn.
Tokyo, Japan. Mori Art Museum/Tankosha Publishing. Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life, 2003. Edited by David Elliot and Pier Luigi Tazzi.
2002 London, England. Victoria Miro Gallery. Freedom One Day, 2002. Texts by Courttia Newland, Francesca Beard, Roger Robinson, Ray Shell, Sophie Woolley, Bidisha,and Charley Dark.
London, England. Victoria Miro Gallery. The Upper Room, 2002. Texts by Susanna Paisley and Beth Coleman.
New York, NY. The Museum of Modern Art. Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, 2002. Text by Laura Hoptman.
Santa Monica, CA. Santa Monica Museum of Art. Cavepainting: Peter Doig, Chris Ofili, Laura Owens, 2002. Text by Jonathan Jones.
2001 Bronx, NY. The Bronx Museum of the Arts. One Planet under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art, 2001. Texts by Jenny Dixon, Lydia Yee, Greg Tate, and Franklin Sirmans.
London, England and Los Angeles, CA. Thames & Hudson and Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Public Offerings, 2001. Text by Paul Schimmel.
Munich, Germany. Sammlung Goetz. The Mystery of Painting, 2001. Text by Francesco Bonami, Rainald Schumacher, Adrian Dannatt, Birgit Sonna,Isabelle Graw, Jessica Morgan, Wolf Günter Thiel, Bernhart Schwenk,Benjamin Weissman, Hans Rudolf Reust, Kirsty Bell, Beth Coleman, and Gila Strobel.
Turin, Italy. Edizioni Charta. Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea.Form Follows Fiction, 2001. Text by Jefferey Deitch.
2000 New York, NY. Verso. High Art Lite, 2000. Text by Julian Stallabrass.
Sydney, Australia. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Sydney 2000, 2000. Edited by Ewen McDonald.
1999 Antwerp, Belgium. Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen. Trouble Spot Painting, 1999. Edited by Kurt Vanbelleghem and Tim Vermeulen.
Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. 6th International Istanbul Biennial, 1999.
London, England. Thames & Hudson. VISION. 50 Years of British Creativity, 1999. Text by Michael Raeburn.
London, England. Booth-Clibborn Editions. Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade,1999. Text by Jonathan Barnbrook.
London, England. Purple House Limited. Zoo,1999. Edited by Eliza Williams.
Pittsburgh, PA. Carnegie Museum of Art. CI:99/00/V.01 Carnegie International1999/2000, 1999. Text by David S. Frankel.
1998 London, England. Southampton City Art Gallery and the Serpentine Gallery. Chris Ofili, 1998. Text by Lisa G. Corrin, and Godfrey Worsdale.
London, England. Jerwood Foundation. Jerwood Painting Prize 98, 1998.
1997 Cambridge, England. 21. Blimey! From Bohemia to Britpop: The London Artworld from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst, 1997. Text by Matthew Collings.
London, England. Tate Gallery Publishing Limited. Moving Targets: A User’s Guide to British Art Now, 1997. Text by Louisa Buck.
London, England. Royal Academy of Arts and Thames & Hudson. Sensation: Young British Artists from The Saatchi Collection, 1998. Texts by Brooks Adams, Norman Rosenthal, et al.
London, England. The British Council. Dimensions Variable: New Works from the British Council Collection, 1997. Text by Ann Gallagher.
Sydney, Australia. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Pictura Britannica, 1997. Text by Bernice Murphy.
1996 Humlebaek, Denmark. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. NowHere, 1996. Edited by Steen Hansen.
1996 Oxford, England. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, 1996. Text by David Elliott.
1995 Liverpool, England. National Galleries & Museums on Merseyside. 19th John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, 1995. Text by Richard Foster and Julian Treuherz.
Minneapolis, MN. Walker Art Center Publications. Brilliant! New Art from London, 1995. Texts by Stuart Morgan, Neville Wakefield, Richard Flood, and Douglas Fogle.

Selected Awards:

2004 South Bank Show Award: Visual Arts, South Bank, London, England
Honorary Fellowship, University of the Arts, London, England
1998 Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London, England
1996 About Vision, Absolut Vodka commission, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
Wingate Young Artist Award, Islington, England
1993 Second Prize, Tokyo Print Biennale, Tokyo, Japan
1992 British Council Travel Scholarship to Zimbabwe, Africa, British Council, London,England
Erasmus Exchange to Hochschule der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
1989 Christopher Head Drawing Scholarship, London, England