Lynette Yiadom-Boakye paints invented Black figures rather than portraits of specific sitters. Working quickly from memory, art history and imagination, she places solitary or grouped subjects in ambiguous settings that resist narrative certainty.
Painting; writing
Artist Films
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye | Turner Prize Nominee 2013 | TateShots
Major Works
- 2010Any Number of Preoccupations
- 2009Diplomacy II
- 2018A Whistle in a Wish
- 2011Condor and the Mole
- 20095am, Cadiz
- 2012No Such Luxury
- 2014Citrine by the Ounce
- 2013Complication
- 2015To Douse the Devil for a Ducat
- 2016Tie the Temptress to the Trojan
Interviews & Writing
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