Tate Britain celebrates the return of Yiadom-Boakye’s 2020 major survey, which was sadly cut short by the lockdown.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a British artist and writer acclaimed for her enigmatic portraits of fictitious people. This exhibition combines 70 works from 2003 to the present day in the most extensive survey of the artist’s career. Yiadom-Boakye was awarded the prestigious Carnegie Prize in 2018 and was the 2012 recipient of the Pinchuk Foundation Future Generation Prize.
The figures in Yiadom-Boakye’s paintings are not real people – she creates them from found images and her imagination. Both familiar and mysterious, they invite viewers to project their interpretations and raise important questions of identity and representation.
This exhibition is touring internationally before returning to be restaged at Tate Britain for an entire three-month run.
Source: tate