Chris Ofili – News
Chris Ofili Survey Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom
September 7, 2027–January 9, 2028
Laure: Chris Ofili and Édouard Manet
Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turn, Italy
October 29, 2026–April 3, 2027
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States
December 15, 2024–March 30, 2025
Chris Ofili: Harvester Featured as Large-Scale Stage Backdrop
Multiple venues, including the Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris, Barbican Centre, London and Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome
September 2023
Chris Ofili Included in The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure
National Portrait Gallery, London
February 2024
Chris Ofili: Requiem
Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
September 2023-2033
In the Black Fantastic
Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands
2022–2023
In the Black Fantastic
Hayward Gallery, London
In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), Scottsdale, AZ
2022–2023
Chris Ofili: The Othello Prints
Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
January 2022
Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now
Tate, London
2021–2022
Chris Ofili and Emily Wilson
Dialogues: the David Zwirner Podcast
October 2019
William Shakespeare × Chris Ofili: Othello
David Zwirner Books
October 2019
Rise Up! Social Justice in Art from the Collection of J. Michael Bewley
San Jose Museum of Art
June 2018
Chris Ofili: Caged in Paradise
The New York Review of Books, essay by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
2018
Chris Ofili: Evolving installation at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami)
2017–2019
Major Commission for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The artist's first permanent museum commission in the United States
2017
Weaving Magic
Chris Ofili's work is transformed into a tapestry at The National Gallery in London
2017
Chris Ofili awarded a CBE
The artist receives royal recognition in the United Kingdom for services to art
2017
56th Venice Biennale: All the World’s Futures
56th Venice Biennale
May 2015
Chris Ofili: Night and Day
The artist's first major museum survey in the United States met with critical acclaim
2014