Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Wins Future Generation Art Prize December 7th, 2012
Friday, December 7th, 2012
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, The Secret Societies group show, courtesy Schirn Kunsthalle
At a ceremony held in Kiev, Ukraine, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye was announced winner of the Future Generation Art Prize, funded by Ukrainian collector Viktor Pinchuk’s foundation and worth $100,000. Yiadom-Boakye, born and working in London, was shortlisted for her portrait paintings of mainly black subjects, which through cultural context have taken on a political charge. Her work is urgent, sweeping, and dark. Yiadom-Boakye says each work takes her less than a day to complete, because “it’s about a certain kind of urgency and capturing that time frame.”