Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Londres, b. 1977

Born in London in 1977, where she still resides, Lynette Yiadom‑Boakye studied at Falmouth College of Arts and the Royal Academy Schools.

Her work is characterized by a poetic language, in the sense that it embodies a fiction charged with reality and truth.

The figures in her paintings are not bound to a specific time, culture, or style, allowing viewers to project their own interpretations onto them while reflecting on questions of identity and representation. For the artist, the curiosity, inventiveness, and imagination of the viewer are essential to the interpretation of her paintings.

Among her many solo museum exhibitions, highlights include Fly in League with the Night, organized by Tate Britain in 2020 and subsequently presented at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, K20 in Düsseldorf, and MUDAM in Luxembourg. She has also held solo exhibitions at the New Museum and the Studio Museum in New York, Haus der Kunst in Munich, Kunsthalle Basel, Serpentine Gallery in London, and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, among others.

Her work is held in prestigious collections including the Tate Collection, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Gallery of South Australia; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Dallas Museum of Art; Kunstmuseum Basel; the Minneapolis Institute of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut.