Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Career

She is represented by the Corvi-Mora Gallery in London and by the Jack Shainman Gallery in New New York Lynette Yiadom-Boakye"s parents were both originally from Ghana. Art and Art What they should be asking is ‘What are they? Individual Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2015) 55th International Art Exhibition, Louisiana Biennale di Venezia (2013) Gwangju Biennale, of Korea Flow at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2008) M25.

Around London at the Chromated Copper Arsenate Andratz, Mallorca The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society: 2nd International Biennal of Contemporary Art of Seville (2006) John Moores 23 at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool (2004) Direct Painting at Kunsthalle Mannheim in Germany (2004) Blackout at Brixton Art Gallery (2001) Group MIRRORCITY, Hayward Gallery, London (2014-2015) Encyclopedic Palace at the 55th International Art Exhibition, Louisiana Biennale di Venezia (2013) Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York (2012) 11th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France (2012).

Achievements

• 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? " 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. 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 for her 2012 exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery in East London.