LYNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE

Born in 1977, London
 Lives and works in London

 2000-03 - Royal Academy Schools
 1997-2000 - Falmouth College of Art
 1996-97 - Central St Martins School of Art and Design 

Solo Exhibitions
2025 Keep The Moon Amongst Ourselves, Corvi-Mora Gallery, London, UK
2023 No Twilight Too Mighty, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, ES
2023 Fly in the League with the Night, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
2022 Fly in the League with the Night, Tate Britain, London, UK
2022  Fly in the League with the Night, K20, Dusseldorf, Germany,
2022  Fly in the League with the Night, MUDAM Luxembourg
2021 Fly in the League with the Night, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
K20,
2020 The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, The Huntington Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
2019 A Mind for Moonlight, Corvi-Mora, London, UK,
2019 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: In Lieu Of A Louder Love, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, 
2018 – 2019 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy 
2017 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Under-Song for a Cipher, New Museum, New York, NY, 
2016 – 2017 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: A Passion to a Principle, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, November
2016 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Sorrow for A Cipher, Corvi-Mora Gallery, London, UK, September 9 – October 8,
2016

2010 - 'Lynette Yiadom-Boakye', The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (opening November 10th)
2010 - 'Essays and Documents' Jack Shainman Gallery, New York 
2010 - Solo presentation at The Armory Show 2010, New York, by Faye Fleming & Partner 
2010 - 'Essays and Letters', Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
2009 - ‘FOREX : Pleased to Meet You’, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
2009 - 'Manifesto', Faye Fleming & Partner, Geneva
2007 - Gasworks, London 
2007 - ‘Series’, ARQUEBUSE (now Faye Fleming & Partner), Geneva 
2004 - ‘How To Live’, Prowler Project Space, London

Group Exhibitions (selection)
 2011 - 'Biennale de Lyon', Lyon, France
 2010 - 'Newspeak', The Saatchi Gallery, London 
 2009 - 'Convoi Exceptionnel', Triangle France, Marseille
 2009 - 'Living Together: Towards a Contemporary Concept of Community', curated by Xabier Arakistain and Emma Dexter, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturanea, Vittoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Travelling to MARCO, Museu de Arte Contempornea, Vigo, Spain
 2008 - 'M25. Around London', curated by by Barry Schwabsky, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
 2008 - 7th Gwangju Biennial, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Gwangju, Korea
 2008 - ‘Flow’, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York 
 2007 - ‘100 Years Kunsthalle’, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
 2006-07 - ‘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 - ‘Personne ne veut mourir’, ARQUEBUSE, Geneva
 2006 - ‘Liquid’, Lynette Boakye and Gary Hume, New Paintings, Royal Academy Schools Gallery, Hornsey
 2005 - ‘Direkte Malerei – Unmittelbare Bildwelten zwischen Abstraktion und Figuration’, Mannheimer Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany
 2004 - ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’, Coach Shed, Liverpool and Barbican, London
 2004 - ‘John Moores 23’, Liverpool Biennal, Liverpool
 2004 - ‘5 Young Painters’, Artspace Gallery, London
 2003 - ‘Schools Show’, Royal Academy Schools, London
 2003 - ‘Work Ethic’, Gone Tomorrow Gallery, London
 2002 - ‘Premiums’, Sackler Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London
 2002 - ‘Red Mansion Prize’, London Institute, Millbank, London
 2001 - ‘Blackout’, Brixton Art Gallery, London

Bibliography 
 2010 - ‘Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’, text by Okwui Enwezor, pub. Studio Museum in Harlem (ex. cat.)
 2010 - ‘Newspeak : British Art Now’, Booth-Clibborn Editions
 2010 - ‘Lynette Yiadom-Boakye : Essays and Letters’, essay by Barry Schwabsky, pub. Michael Stevenson Gallery (ex. cat.)
 2009 - ‘Contemporary African Art Since 1980’, ed. Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu, pub. Damiani Press
 2009 - Chika Okeke-Agulu, Arise Magazine, Issue 06
 2008 - ‘The 7th Gwangju Biennale’, ed. by Okwui Enwezor
 2008 - ‘Flow’, essay by Sarah Kent, Studio Museum in Harlem
 2007 - Jane Neal, ‘Lynette Yiadom-Boakye : Gasworks’, Modern Painters, September
 2007 - Sally O’Reilly, ‘Lynette Yiadom-Boakye : Gasworks’, Time Out, 26 June
 2006 - ‘The Unhomely : Phantom Scenes in Global Society’, ed. by Okwui Enwezor, Fundación BIACS2
 2005 - Mitrovic, Sinista, ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’, Flash Art, Jan-Feb
 2004 - Searle, Adrian, ‘Picture Perfect’, The Guardian, 30 November

Collections
 Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
 Saatchi Collection, London, UK
 The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
 Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

Awards
 2006 - Arts Foundation Award for Painting
 2006 - deciBel Award for Visual Arts