The Victoria Miro Gallery is a leading British contemporary art gallery in London, with an international reputation, run by Victoria Miro, one of the "grandes dames of the Britart scene", who first exhibited Chris Ofili and the Chapman Brothers. She opened her first gallery in 1985 in Cork Street, where she became one of the principal dealers, then moved to much larger premises adjacent to Hoxton in 2000. Her sale of Ofili's work, The Upper Room, to the Tate gallery in 2005 caused a media furore, as Ofili was a serving trustee of the Tate, which was censured by the Charity Commission. The gallery represents Turner Prize winners, Ofili and Grayson Perry.
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