NAEMI artists | Outsider Artists, Art Brut Talent & Artists Recovering from Mental Illnesses

OUR ARTISTS

Art brut and outsider art talent from across the globe.

Misleidys Castillo

Misleidys was born with brain, hearing and autistic impediments. She has always lived in her own secluded world, inserted in a familiar environment.

Jorge A. Hernandez "El Buzo"

The practice of Jorge Alberto Hernández Cadi of scavenging in the garbage has resulted in him being popularly known as "the diver".

Damian Valdes

Damian's world is populated by organic figures who compose an iconography dominated by fiercely dehumanized characters in monstrous environments.

Candice Avery

The work of this North American artist (Albion, Michigan, 1951) shows a surprising variety and a solid technique. The refined hyperrealism of her drawings captures every detail to the very last hair.

Isaac Crespo

Isaac Crespo's drawings and paintings show an exquisite technical accuracy. He creates situations where the absurd and irrational intertwines with characters drawn from real life.

Carlos expresses his particular cosmovision in drawings made with graphite pencils, color pencils and pens.He does not use oil painting because he gets dirty. Carlos is 48 years old and lives in El Callao, Peru.

Lucia Ballester

Lucia's artwork is of a special sensibility, and this artists is furthermore a poet. She was born in Havana, Cuba, in the middle of the last century and studied...

Guillermo Cassola "Rigo"

Born on January 9, 1961. From his early childhood he felt strongly inclined to drawing. He started copying illustrations from magazines and...

Echo

Echo McCallister’s style is innocent, childish, primitive. Although not fully aware of it, he has created figures and shapes of intense simplicity.

Sebastian Ferreira

Born in Asuncion (Paraguay), Seba is fascinated with cities like Madrid, Paris, Rome, Seville or Cordoba, and with the great highways that run along them.

Gary Brewer

Gary channels his bursting energy through his work using a series of techniques, namely crayons. This choice of working tool, which produces a permanent...

Yaniel Agrafojo Sanchez

From a young age he had an acute photographic memory, that would use in his art to reproduce images of locomotives and trains in every detail...

Milton Schwartz

Milton Schwartz used to spend his time praying and making collages in vanilla colored folders where he would write and stick small pictures clipped from...

Ramon Losa

Born in the Spanish town of Albacete (1959) Ramón started his career studying Fine Arts but had to leave it half way through due to his mental illness.

Roger Sadler

In his work, Sadler gives great relevance to daily life in a city. With his camera, he captures the world that surrounds us, including garages, shopping malls...

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NAEMI is a non profit organization based in the United States, founded in 1988. NAEMI’s main goal is to discover, study, promote, exhibit and preserve the art of people recovering from mental illness.

NAEMI seeks to increase artists’ credibility in a society that would otherwise ostracize them. Often ignored by society and the artists, themselves, we allow these artists to value their own work.

In the past three decades, NAEMI has developed numerous projects. In addition to the annual exhibition in Miami, the collection has traveled to numerous museums and galleries in the United States, Spain, Cuba, Belgium, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, Bolivia and Mexico.

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