积克‧查普曼1966年生于切尔滕纳姆，就读伦敦东北理工学院。迪诺斯‧查普曼1962年生于伦敦，就读雷文斯保尼艺术学院。1990年，两人均就读于伦敦皇家艺术学院。
查普曼兄弟以他们独特而具颠覆性的幽默感和活力，通过作品去探索一些较为严肃尖锐的课题如战争、政治、宗教及道德等。他们主要以雕塑闻名，作品亦旁及装置、素描、油画及版画。
1993年，查普曼兄弟因展览「战争的灾难」开始备受注目。受十八世纪艺术大师戈雅描绘法西拿破仑战争的著名蚀刻画系列启迪，他们以塑料人物雕塑重现这一幕历史画面。他们对戈雅的着迷，可再见于其后的《落井下石》系列。这系列参与了2003年的「特纳奖」提名展，并在泰特英国美术馆展出。作品《我的巨型填色簿》(2004) 是一部包含二十一幅蚀刻画的作品集；儿童填色簿的内容应该是可亲而温和的，但查普曼兄弟却发挥了荒诞的想象力，参照从戈雅到超现实主义的艺术史图像，为儿童画加入了阴森黑暗的一面。表面看来，这些画面只是编号联机图画，但细看之下，便得知其负面的意象—可爱的玩具熊变成内脏外翻的怪兽；手执鲜花的侍女从爆炸的房子里逃出；巨大海洋生物成为一双森冷猴子的避难所。
查普曼兄弟参与了在伦敦、柏林以及纽约巡回展出的重要联展「感觉：萨奇英国青年艺术家藏品」展(1997-9)，并因此得到各界关注。他们的作品亦广泛展出，其中个展包括：凯斯特纳画廊(汉诺威，2008)；泰特英国美术馆(2007)；泰特利物浦美术馆(2006)；白立方画廊(2005)以及银座美术馆(东京，2000)。
Jake Chapman was born in Cheltenham in 1966 and studied at North East London Polytechnic. Dinos Chapman was born in London in 1962 and studied at Ravensbourne College of Art in London. Both studied at the Royal College of Art, London in 1990.
Jake and Dinos Chapman’s work explores hard hitting subjects such as war, politics, religion and morality while injecting their own brand of subversive humour and energy. Known mainly for working in the medium of sculpture, the Chapmans also cross over into installation, drawing, painting and printmaking.
The Chapmans first came to public attention in 1993 with The Disasters of War exhibition. Using plastic model figurines, the brothers recreated a series of tableaux inspired by the eighteenth century artist Francisco Goya’s famous series of etchings of the Franco-Spanish Napoleonic wars. This fascination with the Spanish artist has continued with their Insult to Injury series included in their Turner Prize nomination exhibition in 2003 at Tate Britain, London. My Giant Colouring Book (2004) is a portfolio comprising twenty-one etchings where the Chapmans unleash their fantastical imaginations on what should be a safe and harmless children’s colouring book. Referring to art historical iconography from Goya to Surrealism, the brothers twist the pages into a darker context. The ascending numbered dots appear to have been followed correctly but upon close inspection reveal images beyond the realms of their intention; what would have been a cuddly teddy bear, becomes a severed monster with its innards spilling out; a hand-maiden bearing freshly picked flowers is suddenly footsteps away from an exploding house; and a sea creature in the ocean becomes a shelter for a pair of cold monkeys.
Jake and Dinos Chapman’s work gained widespread media interest as part of the seminal group exhibition Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi collection, shown in London, Berlin and New York, 1997-9. They have exhibited extensively and their solo shows include Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, 2008; Tate Britain, 2007; Tate Liverpool, 2006; White Cube, 2005 and The Art Ginza Space, Tokyo, 2000.