Outsider Art Fair Bringing 46 Galleries to Chelsea for its First Frieze Week Outing

The Outsider Art Fair's 2013 edition. Courtesy the Outsider Art Fair.

In past years the Outsider Art Fair has taken place outside of New York’s two major art fair weeks—in 2013 it happened at the end of January—but now it is joining the cluster of fairs happening concurrently with Frieze New York. The 2014 Outsider Art Fair, the first since dealer Andrew Edlin, whose company Wide Open Arts owns the fair, added a Paris edition in October 2013, will take place at the former Dia Art Foundation building in West Chelsea from May 8–11, with an international roster of 46 participating galleries.

“For anyone who has been paying attention to what’s going on in the art world the Outsider Art Fair is the must-see event,” Edlin said in a statement, echoing the growing level of attention that outsider art has earned in recent years. The exhibitor list for 2014 lends credence to outsider art’s increased visibility, boasting major New York galleries like Marlborough Chelsea, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, and Zieher Smith.

The full list of participants is included below:

American Primitive Gallery, New York

Ames Gallery, Berkeley

Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York

Baumann + Muksian, Basel/San Francisco

Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York

Chris Byrne, Dallas

Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland

Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee

Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia

Galeria Estação, São Paulo

Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris

Galerie Bonheur, St. Louis

Galerie Bourbon Lally, Bourdon, Haiti

Galerie Christian Berst, Paris

Galerie Degbomey, Fleurance, France

Galerie du Marché, Lausanne

Galerie Hervé Perdriolle Art Contemporain Inde(s), Paris

Galerie St. Etienne, New York

Galerie Toxic, Luxembourg

Gallery at HAI, Long Island City

Garde Rail Gallery, Austin

George Jacobs Self-Taught Art, Newport

Giampietro Works of Art, New Haven

Gilley’s Gallery, Baton Rouge

Henry Boxer Gallery, London

Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI

Hirschl & Adler, New York

Institute 193, Lexington, KY

Judy A. Saslow Gallery, Chicago

Just Folk, Summerland, CA

Karen Lennox Gallery, Chicago

Laura Steward Projects, Santa Fe

Lindsay Gallery, Columbus

Luise Ross Gallery, New York

Marion Harris, New York

Marlborough Chelsea, New York

Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo

Pan American Art Projects, Miami

Pardee Collection, Iowa City

Pure Vision Arts, New York

Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York

Rizomi Art Brut, Turin

Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga

Yukiko Koide Presents, Tokyo

Zieher Smith, New York

Benjamin Sutton


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