Artists Profile: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a painter and a writer of Ghanaian descent. She was born in London, England and she currently resides and works there. Lynettes parents are originally from Ghana and after arriving in UK they worked as nurses for the National Health Service. She attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, graduated from Falmouth College of Art in the year 2000 and completed her Masters in Art degree at The Royal Academy Schools in 2003.




Her paintings are predominantly figurative with raw and muted colors. 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 or in a different time and in an unknown location. She paints figures that are intentionally removed from time and place and has stated, “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.
She recently exhibited work at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. The show, entitled "Under-Song For A Cipher, opened in May of 2017, and ran through September 3rd, 2017. The show was profiled by Zadie Smith for The New Yorker in its June 2017 issue.

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