Artworks by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at Jack Shainman Gallery on artnet

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

(British, born 1977)

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Watcher, 2011

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Metaphysic, 2012

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Bullrushes and Forget-me-nots, 2014

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Bluejay, 2014

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Good News, 2010

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Black Allegiance to the Cunning, 2018

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Stone Arabesque, 2018

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5AM Friday, 2018

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Biography

Timeline

1977: Born in London
1996 - 1997: St. Martins School of Art and Design
1997 - 2000: Falmouth College of Art
2000 - 2003: Royal Academy Schools

Exhibitions

2016: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Stranger! Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio
2015 - 2017: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2015-2017:
One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People, A Hayward Touring & Arts Council Collection exhibition curated by Jennifer Higgie, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK, March 6 – May 24, 2015. Travels to: Nottingham Castle, UK, June 20 – September 6, 2015; Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland, October 17, 2015 – February 7, 2016; The Atkinson, Southport, UK, February 20 – May 22, 2016; Towner, Eastbourne, UK, October 15, 2016 – January 5, 2017
British Art Show 8, A Hayward Touring exhibition, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK, October 9, 2015 – January 10, 2016. Travels to: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, and Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, February 13 – May 8, 2016; Norwich University of the Arts and Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, UK, June 24 – September 4, 2016; and John Hansard Gallery and Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK, October 8, 2016 – January 14, 2017
2015 - 2016: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2015-2016:
Capsule Exhibition: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (solo)
2015: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Verses After Dusk, Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)
Meet Me Halfway: Selections from the Anita Reiner Collection, Cristin Tierney Gallery
Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, and the possible, Sharjah, UAE
Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA, Museum of the African Diaspora
As Is Is, Altman Siegel Gallery, Los Angeles
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA): A Story Within a Story, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
2014: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: The Love Within, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (solo)
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut (solo)
In the Near Future. The Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
Sound Vision: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
DISPLAYS – Three Women Painters: Phoebe Unwin, Clare Woods and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Contemporary Art Society, London
More Material, Salon 94, New York
Recent Acquisitions: Selections from the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Collection, The Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art at the University of Memphis, Tennessee
Mise En Scène, The School, Kinderhook, NY
MIRRORCITY:London artists on fiction and reality, Hayward Gallery, London
Queensize – Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection, Me Collectors Room, Berlin
2013 - 2014: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2013-2014:
Turner Prize 2013, Ebrington, Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland
2013: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Salt 7: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah (solo)
The Love Without, Corvi-Mora, London (solo)
The Souls, a Twice-Told-Tale, CEAAC (Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines – European Centre for Contemporary Art Projects), Strasbourg, France
2012 - 2013: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2012-2013:
Future Generation Art Prize Exhibition, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine (solo)
The Encyclopedic Palace, The Central Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Italy
Fiction as Fiction (or, a Ninth Johannesburg Biennale), Stevenson Gallery, Capetown
The Progress of Love, The Menil Collection, Houston
2012: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Chisenhale Gallery, London (solo)
All Manner Of Needs, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (solo)
The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York
Restless: Recent Acquisitions from the MAM Collection, Miami Art Museum, Florida
A World Away, Dyrham Park, Glouchestershire, United Kingdom
Prose/Re-Prose: Figurative Works Then and Now, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah
Breadbox, ZieherSmith at the ICON, Nashville, Tennesse
2011 - 2012: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2011-2012:
Secret Societies: To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany, June 22–September 25, 2011. Traveling to: musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France (CAPC de Bordeaux), November 10, 2011–February 26, 2012. Curated by Cristina Ricupero and Alexis Vaillant
2011: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Notes and Letters, Corvi-Mora, London (solo)
Make Believe, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm
Building The Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Going Where the Weather Suits My Clothes…A Fall of Light on Fabric, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin
Converging Voices, Transforming Dialogue: Selections from the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Collection, University Museum, Texas Southern University, Houston
11th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, France
2010 - 2011: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2010-2011:
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Any Number of Preoccupations, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, Curated by Naomi Beckwith (solo)
2010: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Essays and Documents, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY (solo)
Solo presentation, The Armory Show 2010, with Faye Fleming & Partner, New York (solo)
Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town (solo)
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2009: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Convoi Exceptionnel, Triangle France, Marseille
Pleased to Meet You, FOREX program, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town (solo)
Manifesto, Faye Fleming & Partner, Geneva (solo)
Living Together : Towards a Contemporary Concept of Community, curated by Xabier Arakistain and Emma Dexter, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturenea, Vittoria-Gasteiz, Spain Travelling to MARCO, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Vigo, Spain
2008: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
The 7th Gwangju Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Korea
Flow, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2007: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2007:
100 Years Kunsthalle, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Gasworks, London (solo)
Series, Arquebuse, Geneva (solo)
The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society, 2nd International Biennal of Contemporary Art of Seville, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporareo Reale Ataronanas, Seville
2006: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2006:
Personne ne veut mourir, Arquebuse (now Faye Fleming & Partner), Geneva
Liquid, Lynette Boakye and Gary Hume, New Paintings, Royal Academy Schools Gallery, Hornsey
2004 - 2005: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2004-2005:
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Coach Shed, Liverpool and Barbican, London
Direkte Malerei – Unmittelbare Bildwelten zwischen Abstraktion und Figuration, Mannheimer Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany
2004: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2004:
John Moores 23, Liverpool Biennal, Liverpool
How to Live, Prowler Project Space, London (solo)
5 Young Painters, Artspace Gallery, London
2003: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2003:
Schools Show, Royal Academy Schools, London
Work Ethic, Gone Tomorrow Gallery, London
2002: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2002:
Premiums, Sackler Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Red Mansion Prize, London Institute, Millbank, London
2001: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selected Exhibitions in 2001:
Blackout, Brixton Art Gallery, London

Public Collections

: Zabludowicz Collection, London
: Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
: Miami Art Museum, Florida
: Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
: CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
: British Council Collection, United Kingdom
: Arts Council Collection, United Kingdom
: 21C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
: Tate Collection, United Kingdom
: The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Seattle Art Museum, Washington
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
: Saatchi Collection, London
: Royal Academy of Arts, London
: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
: Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
: Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

(British, born 1977)

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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