Outsider Art Fair Names Exhibitors for 2024 Edition, Including Tribute to Creative Growth Art Center

The Outsider Art Fair has named the 63 exhibitors that will participate in its 2024 edition, scheduled for February 29–March 3 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York.

Billed as “the only fair devoted to self-taught art, art brut, and outsider art,” the upcoming edition will feature galleries from 32 cities, among them are stalwarts in the field, like Cavin-Morris Gallery (of New York), Fleisher/Ollman Gallery (Philadelphia), Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago), and Ricco/Maresca Gallery (New York). Likewise, the fair will include nine first-time exhibitors, including Montreal’s Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Baltimore’s New Door Creative, Nashville’s Elephant Gallery, and the Ruffed Grouse Gallery of Narrowsburg, New York.

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As with past editions, next year’s Outsider Art Fair will include two curated sections. Titled “Beat Art Work: Power of the Gaze,” the first is to be organized by legendary American poet Anne Waldman and will include visual art by poets like William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Joanne Kyger.

The second curated section will celebrate the 50th anniversary of long-time exhibitor Creative Growth Art Center, the Oakland-based nonprofit that is the longest running organization of its kind, dedicated to supporting the work of artists with disabilities. Tom di Maria, Creative Growth’s director emeritus, will organize the presentation, titled “Expanding the Canon: 50 Years of Creative Growth”; it will feature never-before-exhibited works by artists like Dwight Mackintosh, Donald Mitchell, William Scott, Monica Valentine, Aurie Ramirez, William Tyler, and Judith Scott. In October, the San Francisco Museum of Art announced that it had acquired 114 works by 10 Creative Growth–affiliated artists and that it would mount an exhibition of the acquisitions next spring.

“For anyone who’s ever been to Creative Growth, every day feels like a celebration,” Outsider Art Fair owner Andrew Edlin told ARTnews. “And Tom Di Maria, in particular, deserves tremendous accolades for his stewardship—guiding these artists on their journeys from [founders Elias Katz and Florence Ludins-Katz’s] garage to the Venice Biennale. With the major acquisition and exhibition plans by SFMOMA, Creative Growth and its artists have solidified their place in art history. OAF is always delighted and takes pride when the art world embraces work that we have been championing these last 32 years.”

The full exhibitor list follows below.

ExhibitorLocation(s)
Aarne Anton / Nexus Singularity Pomona, NY
Bill Arning Exhibitions Houston
Art Sales & Research Clinton Corners, New York
ArTech Collective New York
Arts of LifeChicago
James Barron ArtKent, CT
bG GallerySanta Monica, CA
Norman Brosterman New York
Cavin-Morris Gallery New York
Center for Creative Works Wynnewood, PA
Galerie Hugues Charbonneau Montreal
Copenhagen Outsider Art Gallery Copenhagen
Creative Growth Art Center Oakland
Creativity Explored San Francisco
SARAHCROWN New York
Daniel/Oliver Brooklyn
M. David & Co. Brooklyn
dieFirma New York
Alexander Dijulio New York
Dutton New York
Andrew Edlin Gallery New York
Elephant Gallery Nashville
Donald Ellis New York
Feheley Fine Arts Toronto
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery Philadelphia
Forest Grove Preserve Sandersville, GA
Fountain House Gallery New York
Emilia Galatis Projects South Freemantle, Australia
God’s Love We Deliver New York
Carl Hammer Gallery Chicago
Hashimoto Contemporary New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles
Hill Gallery Birmingham, MI
Hirschl & Adler New York
Rebecca Hossack London
Kishka Gallery White River Junction, VT
koelsch gallery Houston
Yukiko Koide Presents Kyoto
LAND Gallery Brooklyn
Jennifer Lauren Gallery Manchester, UK
Galerie Pol Lemétais Toulouse, France
Lindsay Gallery Columbus, OH
Joshua Lowenfels Works of Art New York
New Door Creative Baltimore
Nonprofessional Experiments Calicoon, NY
North Pole Studio Portland, OR
Northern Daughters Vergennes, VT
The Pardee Collection Iowa City
Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art Milwaukee
Steven S. Powers New York
Project Onward Chicago
Pure Vision Arts New York
Revival Arts Milford, CT
Ricco/Maresca Gallery New York
The Ruffed Grouse Gallery Narrowsburg, NY
SAGE Studio Austin
Shelter New York
SHRINE New York
Solway Gallery Cincinnati
Stellarhighway Brooklyn
Stewart Gallery Boise, ID
Wilsonville New York
Winter Works on Paper Brooklyn
ZQ Art Gallery New York