About Chris Ofili
Christopher Ofili, is a British painter who won the Turner Prize in 1998. He has used resin, beads, oil paint, glitter, lumps of elephant dung and cut-outs from pornographic magazines as painting elements. Ofili's work has been classified as punk art. He currently lives in Trinidad. Christopher Ofili, (born 10 October 1968) is a British painter who won the Turner Prize in 1998. In 2014, The New Museum in New York presented the first, major solo show of Ofili's work in the U.S. titled Chris Ofili: Night and Day. In 1992, Ofili won a scholarship that allowed him to travel to Zimbabwe. Peter Doig was doing graduate work at the Chelsea College of Arts when Ofili was an undergraduate, and they soon became friends.
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