Chris Ofili

Time Out“'The Upper Room' is truly a moment of transcendence...” His latest tall landscapes aren't triumphs exactly, but they do ooze dark witchcraft and the myths of Anansi. It's not that his shit don't stink, it's just that even when he's bad meaning bad, he's still bad meaning good...

The Times“Exhilarating, excitable, energising art...” All through this show, in half a dozen rooms of spangled toing and froing between poignant ancient mysteries and manic disco rhythms, thoroughly beautiful artworks are asking thoroughly unusual questions of our thoroughly confused times...

Financial Times“An exhilarating yet uneasy exhibition...” Recent works highlight, to be sure, an interest in nature that was always dormant – “Painting with Shit on it” (1993) could read as an aerial landscape – but the compositions are weak, the style tentative and of memorable images there are non

The Observer“The tone scarcely varies...” In the recent works painted in Trinidad where Ofili now lives. Almost every distinguishing characteristic has been pared away – layering, resin, glitter and all – to leave nothing but unadorned paint; and images that have nowhere to hide...

this is london“He was never anything but a decorator of cheap and shallow sensibility...” In these new paintings, there is further proof of his inadequacy, for they are first-year student stuff on overblown scale, best summarised as a wretched fusion of Edmund Dulac, Walt Disney and Art Deco...

The Independent“These are among the most marvellous paintings of the last 20 years...” I don't know if I'd recognise the later works as Ofili's if I didn't know, or that I'd stop to look. Ah well: mid-career retrospectives often end on a doubtful note. Nothing diminishes the riches that came before...

The Telegraph“Much as I like the artist, I didn't think much of the show...” It is a pity that for all its pleasures, this show was badly edited and appallingly installed. There are too many of the psychedelic paintings Ofili made before 1996 and since he quickly outgrew the crassness of the early work, why show so much? ...

Guardian“Bit by bit, he jettisons the things that made him famous...” There is a huge variety and range in Ofili's art: by turns joky and touching, difficult and sexy. His drawings are wonderfully erotic, lively and funny. Along the way, Ofili gets more dense and florid and complex...

Art Review“Not yet reviewed”

The Scotsman“Not yet reviewed”