Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette

Born in London, United Kingdom.

Begins studying at the Royal Academy School.

Joins Falmouth University art school.

Returns to the Royal Academy School to continue her training.

First solo exhibition at the Prowler Project Space in London, entitled Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: How To Live?

Receives an Arts Foundation award for painting and the deciBel Award for Visual Arts. Participates in Seville’s second International Biennial of Contemporary Art, in the exhibition The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society, curated by Okuwi Enwezor at the Andalusian Centre for Contemporary Art.

Presents two exhibitions: in Arquebuse, Geneva, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Series; and at the Gasworks contemporary art organisation in London, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

Participates in the 7th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea).

Her solo exhibition Any Number of Preoccupations opens at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, organised by curator Naomi Beckwith.

Participates in the 11th Lyon Biennale, A Terrible Beauty Is Born.

Receives the Future Generation Art Prize, from the Pinchuk Art Centre in Ukraine, and participates in the exhibition dedicated to the artists nominated for the award.

Presents her solo exhibition Salt 7: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, at the Museum of Fine Art, Utah.

Participates in the 55th Venice Biennale, at the Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice.

The exhibition Capsule 03: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is held at the Haus der Kunst in Munich.

Participates in the 12th Sharjah Biennale, The Past, the Present, the Possible, in the United Arab Emirates.

Wins the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the visual arts.

Her solo exhibition Under-Song For A Cipher takes place at the New York Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

Receives the Carnegie Prize in recognition of her contribution to the 57th Carnegie International Exhibition.

Participates in the 10th Contemporary Art Biennale in Berlin.

The Yale Center for British Art organises The Hilton ALS Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, which is part of a series of exhibitions organised by Hilton ALS and focusing on contemporary artists from Great Britain and the Commonwealth.

Participates in the 58th Venice Biennale, in the Ghana pavilion, along with other artists including El Anatsui.

Tate Britain puts on Fly In The League With The Night, the first major retrospective of her work. This exhibition marks the start of a European tour that in 2021 travels to the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum (K20) in Düsseldorf, and to the Modern Museet in Stockholm; and in 2022 to the Grand-Duc Jean Museum of Modern Art (MUDAM) in Luxembourg.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao organises the solo exhibition No Twilight Too Mighty .

Participates in the collective exhibition Accra! The Rise of a Global Art Community, which includes other Ghanaian artists or artists of Ghanaian descent, such as El Anatsui.