Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

**Lynette Yiadom-Boakye** ( bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1977) o nyɛla *Britain* nira ŋun nyɛ peenta peenta n ti pahi ninvuɣiso ŋun sabiri Gaana nima Kali ni Taada. Niraba pam mi o mi zaŋ kpa o Anfoonima shɛŋa o ni nam n jɛndi binyari shɛŋa sabi ni tiɛhiri gbaari shɛŋa ka di na ka biɛhigu puuni, bee anfooni shɛŋa din jɛndi binyari sali ni nya ka baŋ anduniya puuni, o ni peenti shɛŋa ni kama shɛŋa din yeei bɛ yirina pam. O tuma nyƐla din pahi pam n tooi labisi nyɛvuli n-niŋ gbaŋsabila Anfooninima nambu ni peentibu polo. O Anfoonima peentibu tuma tooi zooya ka di zaŋ wuhi salo niŋdi di konko

## O pilli mini bɛhigu sɔli taarihi
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so tiŋyuli booni London, UK , ni ka o be ka tumdi saha ŋɔ. O laambi nyɛla ban nyɛ neesi nima, ka tumdi bɛ tuma alaafee bontimaŋ yuli booni National Health Service puuni saha shɛli bɛ ni daa yi Ghana tingban ni n kuli UK la yuuni 1960s. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye nyɛla Ŋun buhisi o maŋa kamani o nyɛla "bia so ŋun biɛhigu bɛ nyaɣisa--Ŋun paasiri o kariŋduu dahima, Ŋun ka gala gala-- ka nye ninvuhiso ŋun tooi zooi ka o tiɛhiri pam, ka mali o tiɛha n faari o maŋa " . O ni daa bie Secondary shikuru, o daa nyɛla ŋun bɔɣim Arti daantalisi ka ŋa daa nyɛla o ni zaŋ shɛli ni o kpahim Arti tuma ka din zuɣu che ka o daa yiɣi o kɔrisi ni tahama sheli o ni daa mali ni o leegi Docta so ŋun tuma nya nio o liɣiri ninbihi alaafee polo, ni o leei nuchee tuuni baŋda.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye chaŋ la kariŋ zɔŋ yyuli booni Central St. Martins, kariŋ zɔŋ ti tali shɛli bɛ wuhiri ka bohimdi nuchee tuma ni nachiinsi baŋsim ( yuuni 1996 halini yuuni 1997); tor amaa, o daa bƐ wumi yaɣisim o ni daa bie ni maa ni, ka din zuƔu daa che ka o tahi kariŋzɔŋ n labi kariŋ zɔŋ ti tali shɛli din gba yuli booni Falmouth College of Art ( yuuni 1997 halini yuuni 2000) luhi shɛli o ni daa nya o tuuli shɛhira gbaŊ nuchee tuma baŊsim ni yuuni 2000 pulini. baayan di yaaŊa, o daa nyƐla ŋun lahi naai o shɛhira gbaŊ din pahiri ayi nuchee tuma baŋsim kariŋzɔŋ shɛli din yuli gba booni Royal Academy Schools yuuni 2003 pulini. Ni maa n i, o ni daa bie o kpalinkpaa yuuni kariŊzɔŊ maa puuni, ka o kpaƔim m baŋ ka Ŋa daa sɔŋsi n tahi o ni daa bɔri ni o kpa yaƔi shɛli tuma polo, ka tahibu ŋo daa tahi o yu' dubu o na.  Dodie Kazanjian Ŋun bie *Vogue* yilini ni daa Ʒili o ni o vihi o, o vihigu maa puuni, Yiadom-Boakye daa yɛliya," ni din yƐn ʒiya ni o zaŋ lahabaya ŋan yƐla n to n niŋ o nuuni baŋsim tumanima puuni la, Ŋun gbaami ni o niɣim lahabali maa ka ŋa gbaabu bɛ to, ka ŋa chani n ti jɛndi binshaɣu bee ninsali shɛli din su lahabali maa n ti pahi peentibu maa ni peenti shɛm. Lala maa konko nyƐla din ni tooi wuligi lahabali maa n gili." O ni daa naai *College* o daa tumdi la tuma ni o tabi n sɔŋ o maŋa hali ni yuuni 2006 pulini ka o deei *Arts Foundation* *Fellowship* din jɛndi peentibu ka di niŋ ka o daa tooi maagi o maŋa n zaŋ o zaŋa niŋ Peentibu konko puuni

Yuuni 2010 pulini, o nuchee baŋsim tuuni daa nyɛla kpaŋmaŋ pini Okwui Enwezor sani. o mini *curator* Naomi Beckwith tuma daa nyƐla Okwui Enwezor ni daa zaŋ shƐŊa n pahi o nuchee baŊsim tuma salo zaŊ wuhi kpanjɔɣi ni , ka Ŋa daa niŋ luhi shɛli bɛ ni bɔli Studio Museum in Harlem. O daa pahila bɛ ni daa pii ninvui shɛba ni bɛ di kpanŋmaŋa pina yuli booni Turner prize yuuni 2013 pulini.

## O tuma

A yi kana ti liɣi yuuni *2022 Christie's 20th/21st Century Frieze* nɛma kɔɣiti salo bakɔi ni, Yiadom-Boakye nuuni tuma daa nyƐla bɛ ni buƔisi shɛli ni din kƆƔi  £600,000, amaa bɛ daa dali la £1,482,000

## O tuma nim pam din yɔli
 
**Nous étions* (2007), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
**The Fondness* (2010), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
**Tambourine* (2010), Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
**Skylark* (2010), Museum of Modern Art, New York
**King for an Hour* (2011), Pérez Art Museum Miami
**Bracken or Moss* (2012), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
**10pm Saturday* (2012), Tate, London
**Siskin* (2012), Victoria and Albert Museum, London 
**A Few For the Many* (2013), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
**Appreciation of the Inches* (2013), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
**Observer of Spring* (2013) Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
**Trapsprung* (2013), Seattle Art Museum
**Womanology 12* (2014), National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
**A Culmination* (2016), Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
**8am Cadiz* (2017), Baltimore Museum of Art
**Medicine at Playtime* (2017), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
**The Much-Vaunted Air* (2017), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
**No Need of Speech* (2018), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
**Repose 3* (2018), Dallas Museum of Art
**Shelves for Dynamite* (2018), Minneapolis Institute of Art

* Orlando Reade , "Life Outside the Manet Paradise Resort: On the Paintings of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye", *The White Review*, November 2012.
* Eddie Chambers, "Black British artists who should be better known" , The IB Tauris Blog, 7 August 2014.
*   (Online version is entitled "Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s imaginary portraits".)
* Portraits of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at the National Portrait Gallery, London

## Kundivihira