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Lynette Yiadom Boakye

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British artist (born 1977)

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a British painter and writer of Ghanaian heritage. 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.

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Skylark (2010) by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at the National Gallery of Art's showing of Afro-Atlantic Histories in Washington, DC in 2022Skylark (2010) by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at the National Gallery of Art's showing of Afro-Atlantic Histories in Washington, DC in 2022

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a British painter and writer of Ghanaian heritage. 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.

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United Kingdom
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Born 1977 · age 49
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