Name Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Role Artist | Nominations Turner Prize | |
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Education Royal Academy of Arts, Central Saint Martins | ||
Future generation art prize 2012 lynette yiadom boakye united kingdom
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977, London, UK) is an artist and writer of Ghanaian descent based in London, England. She is represented by the Corvi-Mora Gallery in London and by the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City.
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- Future generation art prize 2012 lynette yiadom boakye united kingdom
- Biennale arte 2013 lynette yiadom boakye
- Background and education
- Art and awards
- Exhibitions
- References
Biennale arte 2013 lynette yiadom boakye
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, graduated from Falmouth University in 2000, and completed an MA degree at the Royal Academy Schools in 2003.
Art and awards
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.
Her work is currently on exhibit at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. The show, entitled "Under-Song For A Cipher, began in May 2017 and will continue until 3 September 2017. The show was profiled by Zadie Smith for The New Yorker in its 19 June 2017 issue.
Awards
In 2006, Yiadom-Boakye won The Arts Foundation Fellowship for Painting. In 2012, she won the Pinchuk Foundation Future Generation Prize, and in 2013 Yiadom-Boakye was shortlisted for the Turner Prize for her 2012 exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery in East London.
Exhibitions
Individual Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions