British Artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Received the Main Prize of the Future Generation Art Prize 2012

British Artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Received the Main Prize of the Future Generation Art Prize 2012 PR Newswire KYIV, Ukraine, December 12, 2012 KYIV, Ukraine, December 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Jonathas de Andrade (Brazil), Micol Assael (Italy), Ahmet Ögüt (Turkey), Rayyane Tabet (Lebanon), and Marwa Arsanios (Lebanon) shared the Special Prize Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, a British artist, is the Main Prize Winner of the second edition of the Future Generation Art Prize. Lynette will receive $100,000 award, $60,000 in cash and $40,000 to be invested in the production of new work. The winner of the Main Prize was selected and announced by the international jury consisting of Carolyn Christov- Bakargiev (Germany), Agnaldo Farias (Brasil), Massimiliano Gioni (USA), Carol Yinghua Lu (China), Hans Ulrich Obrist (United Kingdom), Eckhard Schneider (Ukraine), and Nancy Spector (USA) at the Award Ceremony in Kiev, Ukraine, on Friday, December 7, 2012. Nominated artists including winners will also take part at the Future Generation Art Prize@Venice group exhibition organized by the PinchukArtCentre as the collateral event of the Biennale di Venezia in 2013. And Lynette Yiadom- Boakye as the Main Prize Winner will present her solo show in the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev the next autumn.