Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977, London, UK)[1] is a female artist and writer of Ghanaian descent based in London. She is represented by the Corvi-Mora Gallery in London and by the Jack Shainman Gallery[2] in New York.

Background and Education

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's parents were both originally from Ghana. After arriving in the UK, her parents worked as nurses for the NHS. Yiadom-Boakye completed a foundation course at Central St Martins,[3] graduated from Falmouth College of Arts in 2000, and completed an MA at the Royal Academy Schools in 2003.[1]

Art and Awards

Art

Her paintings are predominantly figurative with raw and muted colours. She paints figures that are intentionally removed from time and place, stating "People ask me, ‘Who are they, where are they?...What they should be asking is ‘What are they? "[4] Her work is included in the permanent collections of a number of institutions, including the Tate Collection, London, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Miami Art Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Nasher Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of African Art, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw. Her most recent exhibition was at London's Serpentine Sackler Gallery in 2015.[5]

Awards

In 2006, Yiadom-Boakye won The Arts Foundation Fellowship for Painting. In 2012, she won the New Museum's Pinchuk Foundation Future Generation Prize, and in 2013 Yiadom-Boakye was shortlisted for the Turner Prize[1] for her 2012 exhibition[6] at Chisenhale Gallery in East London.

Exhibitions

Individual Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

References

  1. 1 2 3 Wright, Karen (8 November 2013). "In the studio: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, painter". The Independent. Retrieved 2013-12-30.
  2. "Lynette Yiadom-Boakye - Jack Shainman Gallery". www.jackshainman.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  3. Cooke, Rachel (2015-05-31). "Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: artist in search of the mystery figure". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  4. "Galleries - Interview Magazine". www.interviewmagazine.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  5. "Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Verses After Dusk". Serpentine Galleries. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  6. Extracts and Verses
  7. "Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist (1 June 2015)", Serpentine UK.
  8. John Moores 23 - Exhibitors gallery, ordered by artists' surname, selection A-C, Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-09-19.

Further reading

External links

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