The October Gallery is an art gallery

Art gallery

An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...

 based in central London

London

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, showing contemporary work from all cultures around the world.

Since first opening its doors in 1978, the October Gallery has promoted the art and artists of the Transvangarde or trans-cultural avant-garde

Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

; work by artists who, whilst at the forefront of their own culture's artistic practices, are also alive to cross-currents and developments taking place in the arts practice of other cultures. In more than twenty-eight years of showing art from around the planet, the October Gallery has exhibited the work of artists from over sixty-five different countries, and from regions that include Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, India and Oceania.

Artists

• Pablo Amaringo
  Pablo Amaringo
  Pablo Cesar Amaringo was an acclaimed Peruvian artist, renowned for his intricate, colourful depictions of his visions from drinking the entheogenic plant brew, ayahuasca. He was first brought to the West's attention by Dennis McKenna and Luis Eduardo Luna, who met Pablo in Pucallpa while...
  
  
• Abiodun Anako
• Osi Audu
• Julio Balan
• Charles Beauchamp
• Carol Beckwith
• Robert Beer
• Willie Bester
• Frank Big Bear
• Yvette Bouquet
• Jimoh Buraimoh
• Andrea Carlson
• Edgar Duval Carrié
• Arpana Caur
• LeRoy Clarke
• Ira Cohen
• Calixte Dakpogan
• Theodore Dakpogan
• Tom Deko
• Mestre Didi
• Chewang Dorje
• Ali Omar Ermes
• Ruki Fame
• Angela Fisher
• Peter Griffin
• Gonkar Gyatso
• Marie Harding
• Romuald Hazoume
• Sabah Husain
• Richard Jack
• Mathias Kauage
• Daniel Kelly
  Daniel Kelly (artist)
  Daniel Kelly is an American artist based in Kyoto, Japan. Works primarily consist of original paintings and prints. Paintings usually begin with three dimensional collage making incorporating materials that can be found in Japan such as tatami and bamboo mats...
  
  
• Dominique Kouas
• Koumy
• Gickmai Kundun
• Isabel Lambert
• Moshekwa Langa
• Elvis Luna
• Corrina MacNeice
• Nja Mahdaoui
• Hassan Massoudy
• Pat Mautloa
• Manuel Mendive
• Mario Cravo Neto
• Tunde Odunlade
• Z O Oloruntoba
• Bruce Onobrakpeya
• Kwesi Owusu-Ankomah
• Prosper Pierre-Louis
• Etiyé Dimma Poulsen
• Prince Chief Twins Seven Seven
• Gerard Quenum
• Julieta Rubio
• Rachid Koraïchi
  Rachid Koraïchi
  Rachid Koraïchi is an Algerian artist.Koraïchi was born into an ancient Sufi family, which has informed much of his work. He studied first at the École des Beaux-Arts in Algeria before attending the École des Arts Décoratifs and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris...
  
  
• Francisco Montes Shuna
• Julien Sinzogan
• Cyprien Tokoudagba
• Phuntsok Tsering
• Steina Vasulka
• Star Wallowing Bull
• Woody
• Yongqing Ye
• Sandile Zulu
• Malathie de Silva

External links

• October Gallery website