outsider artist

outsider artist (plural outsider artists)

1. An untrained artist who works outside of the mainstream.
   • 2022 March 3, Roberta Smith, “The Outsider Art Fair Returns, in Top Form”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     What exactly is an outsider artist — who typically works in isolation without training and very little exposure to art — when the phenomenon is increasingly embraced by major galleries and museums and its greatest talents have entered the canon?

• outsider art