About the Exhibition
The Outsider Art Fair presented Art Brut Global, a virtual exhibition of artworks sourced through their network of renowned galleries and dealers. A three-phase project, Phase I highlighted works by canonical artists in the field from the world’s leading experts in Outsider Art, the exhibitors. Phase II highlighted artists that have become known to the field in the last three years and Phase III highlighted accomplished outsider artists living around the world.
As a leading focal point of the Outsider Art world, OAF is uniquely positioned to organise an exhibition that assembles the best available works in our field, and rally the passionate community of aficionados, collectors, and fairgoers that have been following OAF since its inception twenty-eight years ago.
Outsider Art dealers have carved out an historically important and influential niche in the art world landscape, thriving on the strength of the powerful art they have unearthed in places where few others were looking. With the help of astute writers and visionary curators, artists who today are the cornerstones of the Outsider Art and Art Brut canon like Aloïse Corbaz, Henry Darger, Thornton Dial, Martin Ramirez, Shinichi Sawada, Judith Scott, Bill Traylor and Adolf Wölfli, have transcended those categories and been recognised as some of the greatest artists of their times. Now, a new generation of dealers and scholars has risen to the fore, making discoveries and using digital technology to reveal and disseminate incredible accounts of self-taught creators and the universes they invent.