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          Yiadom-Boakye was born in London in to Ghanaian parents, both recent immigrants to the United Kingdom.!

          Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

          British painter and writer (born 1977)

          Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer, of Ghanaian heritage.

          Yiadom-Boakye, best known for her portraits of fictional people, has been shortlisted for the Turner Prize, awarded annually to an artist.

        1. Yiadom-Boakye, best known for her portraits of fictional people, has been shortlisted for the Turner Prize, awarded annually to an artist.
        2. In May of last year, an exhibition of seventeen hauntingly quiet portraits by Yiadom-Boakye, at the New Museum, was a surprise sensation; as.
        3. Yiadom-Boakye was born in London in to Ghanaian parents, both recent immigrants to the United Kingdom.
        4. Recently the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye channels her emotional energies into the process of.
        5. , D.A.P.

          6. She is best known for her portraits of imaginary subjects, or ones derived from found objects, which are painted in muted colours. Her work has contributed to the renaissance in painting the Black figure. Her paintings often are presented in solo exhibitions.[2]

          Early life and career

          Lynette Yiadom-Boakye was born in London, UK where she currently lives and works.[3] Her parents worked as nurses for the National Health Service after emigrating from Ghana in the 1960s.[4] Yiadom-Boakye describes herself as "a boring child--good grades, no mischief--but also quite good at living in my head, using my imagination as an escape."[5] As a senior in high school, she took an art foundations course as an experiment and afterwards gave up her previous intentions to become an optician to become an