Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
January 2022
January 20–March 12, 2022 Wallach Art Gallery.
Chris Ofili's twelve Othello prints are presented in conjunction with Such Sweet Thunder—Columbia’s year-long festival of concerts, dramatic presentations, and lectures centering on Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s Shakespeare-inspired jazz suite. In these etchings, Ofili represents one of Shakespeare’s most complexly moving figures while challenging viewers to see in Othello: The Moor of Venice, aspects of the profound tragedies—racial and otherwise—that plague the world today. Learn more at