OKN Movers - November 2026

Biggest climbs and falls

Romuald Hazoumè's run from #77 to #3 is the month's largest single move. A solo show is listed under his name at October Gallery, London, titled "My Blue Period," running from early October into late November, according to a gallery-listings site that covers it. Aida Muluneh's climb from #28 to #1 lines up with a second solo exhibition at Efie Gallery in Dubai, "This Bloom I Borrow," though sources disagree on exactly when that show closes.

There is no "falls" list in the usual sense this month. Every name that held a top-25 spot in October is gone from November's, a function of the formula change rather than twenty-five artists cooling off at once. A cluster of names climbed hard from well outside the top 25: Chika Idu (#4, up from #37), Ange Arthur Koua (#11, up from #74), MÉNÉ (#13, up from #79), Murray James Turpin (#14, up from #61), Deborah Segun (#16, up from #85), Nathaniel Sheppard III (#19, up from #55), Amadou Sanogo (#24, up from #92) and Bodys Isek Kingelez (#25, up from #94). All eight were already somewhere in the ranked pool last month, just much further down it.

What the data says

Seventeen of the top 25 carry Okasen's verified tier. Eight are emerging. The scoring detail behind the list shows a pattern that holds across almost every name that isn't brand new this month, including Muluneh at #1: zero recorded sales in the window, with representation and exhibition-acceleration signals doing the work instead. The fifteen new names mostly show a handful of sales each, not a surge.

The broader Okasen indices back up the read that this is not a sales story. The OKN Verified 100 moved -0.33% over the trailing month to its early-October vintage. OKN Nigeria, OKN Painting 100 and OKN South Africa each sat within two points of flat over the same stretch. None of the twenty most recent sold transactions in Okasen's data, nearly all from a single Strauss & Co sale on September 15, belong to anyone on this month's Movers list. The list measures momentum inside a scoring model, not the size of the market, and this month the model itself is what moved.

OKN Movers movers-v2. A monthly momentum ranking of recent sold-transaction activity, price trajectory and representation, decay-weighted and percentile-ranked across the pool. Snapshot 2026-11-01. Algorithmic, with a curator review before publication.