...Chris Ofili © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Chris Ofili Chris Ofili, Cha Cha Cha (Triptych), 2004. Gouache, ink, charcoal, and gold leaf on paper. Three panels, each 198.5 x 130 cm. © Chris Ofili. Courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner I recall Okwui s deep connection...

...Coco Fusco Copyright © 1999 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1999 Captain Shit and The Other Allegories of Black Stardom: Work of Chris Ofili Journal of Contemporary African Art...

... not lic atmosphere of what could be any tropical climate from the venture beyond the artificial beach of their hotel Antilles to Africa, across the Atlantic through the Indian Ocean, resorts; those who have never been; and Chris Ofili. The 35- all...

...Kris Juncker Inadvertently, Tate Britain may be forecasting the fate of hip-hop and its artistic expression through a midcareer retrospective of Chris Ofili’s work. The exhibition presents a number of stages of his development, with an emphasis on the breakout, commercially successful work...

...N. J. Hynes The British painter Chris Ofili’s retrospective at the Tate Britain in London shows a painter reinventing his approach to paint in the middle of a successful career. His previous work used multiple layers of cutouts, paint, glitter, resin, and dung, creating a lush Afro-rococo style...

... opportunity to explore the racialised everyday with works by Nick Cave, Sedrick Chisom, Ellen Gallagher, Hew Locke, Wangechi Mutu, Rashaad Newsome, Chris Ofili, Tabita Rezaire, Cauleen Smith, Lina Iris Viktor, and Kara Walker. Presented at Hayward Gallery, Eshun delivers the UK s first major exhibition...

... of Chris Ofili s Christmas Eve (Douen s Dance) (2007) beside Denzil Forrester s Itchin and Scratchin (2019) is a wonderful moment that depicts the range of representation possible when it comes to Black spaces of enjoyment. Ofili s canvas is a reinterpretation of the Malian photographer Malick Sidibe s...

... British Peter Doig, South African Lisa Brice, and British Nigerian Chris Ofili, three artists who took part in a residency at Caribbean Contemporary Arts (CCA7) in Port of Spain, Trinidad. (Doig and Ofili continue to live in Port of Spain.) The wall text suggests that this chapter is about the Caribbean...

... and Reconciliation Commission, Kentridge has begun to claim the esteem that he deserves on the international scene. In same vein, Chris Ofili won this year, Britain's most prestigious award for contemporary art, the Turner Prize. The young, Manchester artist whose parents are Nigerian, made his bold...

... amid a field of plumage. This sort of recasting and invocation of religious figures — and the resultant blurring of the image between the talismanic and denotative — should now be fa- miliar from the mid-­1990s paintings of Chris Ofili. His zoomorphic tenden- cies ran toward...

.... of the black nude body. in so doing, to help block false such as Mexarcane International Kara Walker and Chris Ofili hope. She hymns the negative She hails these artists for cre...

.... Even more successful white t-shirt, white-gold chain and backpack, he looks like a is Chris Ofili's Afrodizzia, 1996. The controversial Afro-British typical high school student. His teeth, however, are capped artist's elephant dung supported paintings...

..., the architect and sometime collaborator with painter Chris Ofili, was awarded one of the supreme (male) gongs : a knighthood, entitling him, as a knight of the realm, to be referred to and addressed as Sir David. Added to the above are the not insignificant number of names of other black British artists, pho...

...; the large painting or monumental sculpture. artist is not readyyet to show his drawings. Chris Ofili is working in watercolors as well as his large, dung Ward sits back at his small, equally uncluttered desk against and acrylic paintings. Kcho no longer simply makes his...

... the issue of subjectivity in anthologized essay "The Race for Ofili, Samena Rana, Rotini Fani- "Objectified Bodies or Embodied Theory," that we must also ask Kayode, Isaac .Mien, and Samina Subjects?" and "Desire, Feti• 120-Nka Journal...

... started thinking, when was the first time you and I met? We actually experimenting. I was using a lot of props at the time. There’s met at the Chris Ofili exhibition at Tate Britain.1 a video where I’m squeezing an orange and it’s on a food processor. It’s...

..., soil, emulsion paint, charcoal, ink, coconut, hair, and wood, 216.2 x 59.1 x 59.1 cm. Photo: © Royal Academy of Arts/David Parry Zanele Muholi, Oscar Murillo, Wangechi Mutu, Victoria Miro Gallery and its Director of Exhibitions Chris Ofili, Frida Orupabo, and Yinka Shonibare Erin Manns, and to Louise...

..., William Kentridge, Georges stakeholders to initiate or support the establishment Adeagbo, Santu Mofokeng, Yinka Shonibare, Chris of contemporary art institutions open to their pub- Ofili, Sokari Douglas Camp, Lorna Simpson, Has- lics. Else, the invaluable work of our artists or that san Musa, Kerry...

..., or Frank Stella, Elizabeth hero. During his time he brought a new way of looking at Murray, Elsworth Kelly, Kara Walker, or Polly Aphelbaun in blackness. What he developed was an integration of black the United States, or Chris Ofili, you have very different nationalism, New Negro Alain Locke...