Boakye

Yiadon-Boakye is scheduled to have a solo exhibition of her work later this year at the Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

Lauri Lyons: The Armory Show; Contemporary Art in New York 2010

Yiadon-Boakye is scheduled to have a solo exhibition of her work later this year at the Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

The Armory Show; Contemporary Art in New York 2010

Lacy writes that Boakye's sheer hacker genius was the most astounding.

Forbes.com: News Frederick E. Allen 2011

She profiles one she calls Ibrahim Boakye who grew up poor in Lagos, showed an early genius for anything mechanical or technical, and at his peak was making as much as $50,000 per day as a freelancer hacking into bank systems, stealing social securitynumbers and credit cards, and exposing the Web's deepest vulnerabilities for Nigeria's '

Forbes.com: News Frederick E. Allen 2011

Yiadom-Boakye makes her approach nearly invisible.

NYT > Home Page 2011

In other words, Boakye is a classic top-level entrepreneur, a person with not only ambition but terrific technical ability, insight into where the money is, and real psychological acumen, all in one package.

Forbes.com: News Frederick E. Allen 2011

Kehinde Wiley and Mickalene Thomas have taken a celebratory, triumphant and sometimes showy approach to the black subject, Ms. Yiadom-Boakye makes it nearly invisible.

NYT > Home Page By KAREN ROSENBERG 2010

Yiadom-Boakye isn't very well known in New York and in part because her art, though in keeping with the mission of the museum, looks so different from the work by young artists in other shows there.

NYT > Home Page By KAREN ROSENBERG 2010

Yiadom-Boakye makes her approach nearly invisible.

NYT > Home Page 2010

"Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Any Number of Preoccupations" is the first museum solo for this

NYT > Home Page By KAREN ROSENBERG 2010