Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, the maker of these paintings, is among the first generation of artists to reach maturity in the twenty-first century. Born in1977, Lynette is an artist of Ghanaian descent based in London. She attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Falmouth University and the Royal Academy Schools. Her paintings are predominantly figurative with raw and muted colours. Yiadom-Boakye has shown work internationally in exhibitions, most recently the Gwangju Biennale curated by Okwui Enwezor, Korea; ‘Flow’ at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York and ‘M25. Around London’ curated by Barry Schwabsky at the CCA Andratz, Mallorca; the seville Biennale 2006, curated by Okwui Enwezor and many others including John Moores 23 at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool, Direct Painting at Kunsthalle Mannheim in Germany, 2004 Bloomberg New Contemporaries at various venues throughout the UK and Blackout at Brixton Art Gallery. Yiadom-Boakye is represented by Corvi-Mora in London and by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. In 2013 Yiadom-Boakye was nominated for the Turner Prize for her exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery in east London.
