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Birth
1968 (Manchester, England)
Death
Lived/Active
Trinidad and Tobago/England
Self portrait
Often Known For
mixed media mod Nigerian figure painting
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Chris Ofili was born October 10, 1968 in Manchester. He had a Catholic school education attending St. Pius X High School for Boys, and then Xaverian College in Victoria Park, Manchester. Ofili completed a foundation course in art at Tameside College in Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester and studied in London, at the Chelsea School of Art from 1988 to 1991 and at the Royal College of Art from 1991 to 1993.
Ofili's painting also reference blaxploitation films and gangsta ra (showing 500 of 2094 characters). |
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