Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (* 1977 in London , England ) is an English artist, author and painter with roots in Ghana . She lives and works in London.
Life
Yiadom-Boakye's parents are both from Ghana and worked as nurses in London. Lynette graduated from Falmouth College of Arts, now Falmouth University , and received a master's degree from London's Royal Academy of Arts in 2003 .
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Her painting style shows human figures in dark tones. With her expressive representation of the human figure, the artist examines the formal mechanisms of the medium of painting on the one hand and reveals political and psychological dimensions in her work on the other. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye only paints fictional characters. The figures are intentionally not assignable to any time or place. In a conversation the artist said: “People ask me, 'Who are they, where are they?' What they should be asking is ' What are they?' ”
When Rolf Lauter visited London to discuss the direct painting project with William Feaver at the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Feaver mentioned Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Lauter met her in her studio and spontaneously selected 10 pictures for the Mannheim exhibition. In the following years until 2007, her works were shown several times in individual and group presentations in the Kunsthalle.
Yiadom-Boakye also writes short stories and publishes them together with images of her paintings. But they are not directly related to each other.
Prizes and awards
- 2013: nomination for the Turner Prize
Exhibitions
- Lynette Yiadom-Boakye , Tate , London, UK, 2020
- Under-Song For A Cipher , New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York City, USA, 2017
- A Passion to a Principle , Kunsthalle Basel , Switzerland, 2016/2017
- Whitechapel Art Gallery , London, 2014/2015
- Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2012
- Flow , Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, USA, 2010
- Essays and Letters , Gallery Michael Stevenson, Cape Town , South Africa, 2010
- 7th Gwangju Biennale , curated by Okwui Enwezor , Gwangju , South Korea , 2008
- M25. Around London , curated by Barry Schwabsky, Centro Cultural Andratx , Mallorca, Spain, 2008
- Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla , 2006
- Direct painting. Immediate visual worlds between abstraction and figuration. 40 positions in international contemporary painting. The new Kunsthalle IV, November 6, 2004 to May 1, 2005, Kunsthalle Mannheim , 2004/05.
- Full House: Faces of a Collection , Kunsthalle Mannheim, 02.04. - 04.09.2006.
literature
- Natures, Natural and Unnatural / Lynette Yiadom-Boakye , Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 2015, ISBN 978-0-854882397 .
Web links
- Pictures and biography (en.)
- Report about Yiadom-Boakye on Bayerischer Rundfunk (television), December 2015, on the occasion of an exhibition in the Haus der Kunst, Munich
- Essay by Zadie Smith on the work of Yiadom-Boakyes, in: The New Yorker, 19. June 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Where art should heal in FAZ of October 24, 2013, page 28 on the 2013 Turner Prize
- ↑ Christopher Bollen: Lynette Yiadom Boakye. November 27, 2012, accessed June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ William Feaver. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
- ^ Rolf Lauter (Ed.): Direct Painting / Direct Painting. 40 positions in international contemporary painting. The new Kunsthalle IV , November 6, 2004 to May 1, 2005, Kunsthalle Mannheim 2004/05. OCLC 915687122.
- ↑ Rolf Lauter: Full House: Faces of a Collection, Kunsthalle Mannheim, April 2 - September 4, 2006 . Mannheim 2006 ( worldcat.org [accessed March 4, 2020]).
- ↑ Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Tate gets a survey and wants to show works in Accra. Retrieved October 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Tate: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye - Exhibition at Tate Britain. Retrieved October 22, 2019 (UK English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England |