Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, New Museum, The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial, 15 February – 22 April 2012
Naomi Beck, Donatien Grau and Jennifer Higgie, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Munich, 2014, p. 130 (illustrated, p. 66)
Rebecca Virag, 'Free as a bird. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's First Flight (2015)', University of Cambridge Museums and Botanical Gardens, 20 April 2021, online
British • 1977
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a British painter who is a leader in the contemporary renaissance of portraiture. Her subjects are typically depicted with loose brushwork, floating against muted, ambiguous backgrounds that contribute to a sense of timelessness. Known for the speed of her work, she often completes a canvas in a single day and considers the physical properties of paint to be at the core of her practice.
Yiadom-Boakye was born to Ghanaian parents in London, where she continues to live and work today. In 2013, she was a finalist for the Turner Prize and she was selected for participation in the 55th Venice Biennale. In 2018, the artist won the Carnegie Prize for painting. Her work can be found in the permanent collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Studio Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among many others.
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