Art Fact Friday #37 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
- William Mandela Matthews
- Apr 12, 2024
- 3 min read
An artist whose works are characterized by a use of color, composition, gesture, and directions of the light. Found images, memories, literature, and the history of painting are utilized as sources for the artist’s work. The artist uses the canvas to explore moods, movements and poses. This artist is admired more for an interest in the act of painting opposed to creating traditional portraits of people. By using their imagination, the artists create fictitious individuals and groups of people in private worlds. Subjects smile or glance at the viewer but are concerned with their own lives. These portraits compel the audience to create unique interpretations and raise important questions about identity and representation.
The artist works are held in numerous public collections for example Studio Museum in Harlem, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Nasher Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Tate, Victoria and Albert Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, National Museum of African Art, Kunst museum Basel, Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Born 1977 in London, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, learned the art of painting, working from life. In her last year of high school, she decided to become an artist after taking a foundations class. This would replace her goal to become an optician. She started at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, 1996 and finished undergraduate at Falmouth College of Art, 2000. Then she received an MA from the Royal Academy Schools, 2003. In her final year of graduate school, she redefined the direction of her work, increasing her notoriety. In 2006 she received the Arts Foundation Fellowship for painting.
In 2010 her work was exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She was awarded the Pinchuk Foundation Future Generation Prize in 2012. She received a nomination for the Turner prize in 2013. The New Museum of Contemporary Art awarded her the Next Generation Prize in 2013 as well. In 2016, Yiadom-Boakye received the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Visual Art. The artist's altered her style for the opening of her 2017 show In Lieu of a Louder Love. She went on to receive the Carnegie Prize at 57th edition of Carnegie International in 2018. The In 2019 Yiadom-Boakye was recognized by Power list for her influence in painting. Followed by a 2020 mention in UK’s top ten most influential people of African or African Caribbean heritage. The Tate Museum also provided a major exhibition of her work in 2020.
Yiadom-Boakye has served as a visiting tutor for the Master’s in Fine Arts program at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University. Yiadom-Boakye has comprised numerous notable solo exhibitions including: Any Number of Preoccupations, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Verses After Dusk, Serpentine Galleries, London; A Passion To A Principle, Kunst Halle Basel, Switzerland; Under-Song For a Cipher , New Museum, New York; and Fly In League With The Night, Tate Britain, London. Her group exhibitions include the 55th Venice Biennale; the Sharjah Biennial; 58th Venice Biennale and Afro-Atlantic Histories.
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