Outsider Art Fair NYC is the only fair of self-taught art, art brut, and outsider art. The best outsider art dealers in the Americas are present. Art brut is very popular in French communities.
Outsider Art Fair NYC 2024
The 32nd Outsider Art Fair NYC 2024 shows self-taught art, art brut, and outsider art; at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, Manhattan; from Thursday-Sunday, February 29 – March 3, 2024. From $35. 🇨🇦 🇫🇷
Latin Exhibitors
This season features 63 exhibitors from eight countries, and two special presentations of Curated Spaces.
- Galerie Hugues Charbonneau is from Montreal, Canada. huguescharboonneau.com 🇨🇦
- Galerie Pol Lemétais is from Toulouse, France. lemetais.com 🇫🇷
- Galerie JP Ritsch-Fisch is from Strasbourg, France. ritschfisch.com 🇫🇷
Feheley Fine Arts from Toronto, is showing a lineup of Indigenous contemporary artists from the Canadian Arctic, including Venice Biennale participant Shuvinai Ashoona.
Emilia Galatis is showing Australian Indigenous art.
The special presentation “Expanding the Canon: 50 Years of Creative Growth” exhibits art from private collections, including some that have never been exhibited. The second special presentation “Beat Art Work: Power of the Gaze” is curated by experimental poet Anne Waldman. It looks at the work of the Beat Generation poets, the postmodern literary movement that started in New York in the 1940s-60s.
If you can’t make it to the show, have a look at their online viewing room.
Outsider Art Fair NYC
The fair was founded in 1993. Outsider Art is an interesting art category because it is art that didn’t come through the art industrial complex. Today the first thing many collectors ask is where the artist went to school. Outsider artists didn’t go to art school.
Many of the artists were not recognized as artists during their lifetimes. They had a natural talent, like the kid who could draw in your school class. Some had disabilities which made their lives and creativity more intense. It may look like children’s art, but the outsider art enters the psychological arena as well because it comes from the deepest soul, without any art artifice.
Get tickets at outsiderartfair.com