About

Lynn Yaw Boling, sometimes  Lina Bolena, is an American-Italian artist. She was born in 1955, has a BFA from Indiana University (1980) and an MFA from Yale (1982) where she was awarded the  Helen Watson Winternitz ‘Best WOMAN Painter Award’. She moved to Paris when she was 20, more a wanderer passing through than a traveller to,   and ended up living in an ex-stable next door to Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst. In 1983 she moved from New York  back to Paris thanks to a Harriet Hale Woolley Award and a Fulbright grant, in 1987 to Verona and since, she lived in the UK in ‘Constable Country’ and then  near Lascaux, France.  At present she lives in Italy on the Adriatic, and likes the meaningful coincidence of being on the route from Venice to Rome taken by Turner. ‘Since I have never completely belonged here or there, I inhabit a permanent inbetween or borderline state, like my paintings do. In the end, this is a good thing.’