Un certain nombre d’artistes résidant en dehors des États Unis sont considérés comme se rattachant au mouvement de l’Abstract expressionnism.
Il y a notamment Etel Adnan – lb = Gillian Ayres – uk = Marcel Barbeau –ca =Basil Beattie – uk =Albert Bitran – fr = Frank Bowling – gy =Jack Bush – ca = Pedro Calapez pt= Martin Chirino -es= Bernard Cohen – uk =William Congdon –uk =Gebre Kristos- Desta – et = Ilse D’Hollander nl = = Terry Frost uk = = Günther Förg – de =Charles Gibbons ca = Gotthard Graubner – de
Jeremy Henderson uk= Howard Hodgkin uk = =John Hoyland uk =Albert Irvin uk = Moshe Kupferman il = Alvaro Lapa pt = Manabu Mabe br= Kazuo Nakamura- ca = Jock Macdonald ca = Requena Nozal -es =Blinky Palermo de =Victor Pasmore uk = Bui Xuan Phai – vn = Júlio Pomar –pt
Endre Rozsda hu-fr = William Scott -uk =Stefan Sevastre –ro = Tōkō Shinoda -jp = Kazuo Shiraga -jp = =Armand Vaillancourt -ca = Oswaldo Vigas –ve =Nemanja Vuckovic – yo = Gary Wragg –uk =Tsuruko Yamazaki -jp = Yuri Savelievich-Zlotnikov –ru