(1977 - )
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye was born in 1977 in London, where she is currently based. She attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Falmouth College of Arts and the Royal Academy Schools. Major solo museum shows include The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2017); the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2016); and The Serpentine Gallery, London (2015). In 2013, she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize, and was awarded the Next Generation Prize, from the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA; in addition to winning the Future Generation Prize from Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine, in 2012. Yiadom-Boakye’s work is included in many important collections worldwide including Tate, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London; the Studio Museum in Harlem, and The Museum of Modern Art, in New York; and the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
