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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
born London, England 1977
Lives/WorksLondon, England
BornLondon, England
BiographyLynette Yiadom-Boakye was born and raised in London, where she continues to work. She earned her MA from the Royal Academy Schools in 2003 and previously studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and Falmouth College of Arts. Best known for her wet-on-wet oil paintings of fictional black figures, Yiadom-Boakye creates emotionally rich, timeless scenes that sometimes riff on European Old Masters while offering new possibilities for figurative art. Yiadom-Boakye was a finalist for the Turner Prize in 2013 and commissioned to represent Ghana in the country’s first pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019. In 2020, Tate Britain will present a major survey of her work.“There is this thing for me of just being. The subject’s existence is tied to the fact that they’re all constructs, they’re paintings, and the possibilities are, in some ways, limitless because of that. . . . anything can happen within that frame.”
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born Columbus, GA 1891; died Washington, D.C. 1978