Lynette Yiadom Boakye

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Born	1977 London, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Education	Central St. Martins, Falmouth University, Royal Academy of Art
Known for	Painting
Awards	Pinchuk Foundation Future Generation Prize

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977, London, UK) is an 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 in New York City.

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, graduated from Falmouth University in 2000, and completed an MA at the Royal Academy Schools in 2003.

Art

Her paintings are predominantly figurative with raw and muted colours. With her expressive representations of the human figure, the artist examines the formal mechanisms of the medium of painting and reveals political and psychological dimensions in her works, which focus on fictional characters who exist beyond our world in a different time and in an unknown location. 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? " 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.

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