Lynette Yiadom Boakye
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Lynette Yiadom Boakye is an artist of Ghana
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

ian descent based in London.

Boakye attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. The school has an outstanding international reputation, and is considered one of the world's leading art and design institutions...

, Falmouth College of Arts and the Royal Academy Schools.

Yiadom-Boakye has shown work internationally in exhibitions, most recently the Gwangju Biennale curated by Okwui Enwezor, Korea; 'Flow' at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York and 'M25. Around London' curated by Barry Schwabsky at the CCA Andratz, Mallorca; the seville Biennale 2006, curated by Okwui Enwezor and many others including John Moores 23 http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/23/ at the Walker Gallery http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/ in Liverpool
Liverpool
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, Direct Painting at Kunsthalle Mannheim
Mannheim
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 http://www.kunsthalle-mannheim.com in Germany
Germany
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, 2004 Bloomberg New Contemporaries http://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/ at various venues throughout the UK and Blackout at Brixton
Brixton
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 Art Gallery http://www.brixtonartgallery.co.uk/. Yiadom-Boakye is represented by ARQUEBUSE in Geneva and by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York
New York
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