Art & Photography Galleries
In the Florida Keys, art pops up everywhere—bright canvases splashed with island color, sculpture gardens tucked into courtyards, and photography that captures the Keys’ endless light. Galleries range from quirky co-ops to elegant showrooms, often run by the artists themselves. Peek into a shop and you might meet a painter mid-brushstroke or a photographer still salty from a sunrise shoot. These listings highlight places where the Keys’ spirit hangs on every wall. Stop in, wander slowly, and maybe carry a piece of paradise home with you.
‘Islands of the Arts’ Sculpture Trail
You can find visual artistry almost everywhere in the Florida Keys: in palm-fringed shorescapes beside the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, orange...
The Connections Project: A Mosaic of the Keys
Visual art and music by top Florida Keys talents are to take center stage during the Connections Project.
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Key West Gallery
Seventy-odd artists across two floors of Duval, anchored by Bill Mack, whose portraits of Hollywood stars are carved into metal salvaged from the original Hollywood Sign. Open until ten most nights and eleven on weekends.
Derubeis Fine Art of Metal Key West
Chris DeRubeis, acclaimed as the “Father of Conceptual Movement,” pioneers the signature style of Abstract Sensualism®, transforming metal into luminous, emotionally charged fine art that blends sculpture and painting in celestial abstraction.
Old Road Gallery
Dwayne and Cindy King throw pottery and cast bronze in a workshop you can stand and watch, then set the results loose in a hardwood garden of winding paths, sculpture and free-range peacocks. It is at mile marker 88.8 and ranks among the top ten things to do in Islamorada.
Abstracta
A small Duval Street gallery stocked with work that does not look like anybody else's on the street, including sculpture built out of reclaimed metal. It stays open into the evening, which makes it one of the few galleries you can browse after dinner.
Art@ 830 Gallery
Hand blown glass, turned wood, ceramics and paintings on Caroline Street in the Historic Seaport, run by two artists who have been working in Key West for decades. Ask about Tony Gregory's Key West alphabet.
TooKEY's Gallery
TooKEY’s Gallery by Jessica Tookey — expressive fine art, mixed media and photography studio in Key West with custom commissions and lessons.
Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF)
Explore ocean conservation with REEF's citizen science, education, and marine programs.
Archeo Gallery
Rugs hand-knotted in Afghanistan from nautical charts of the Lower Keys, African ceremonial art, and fish that swam in a Wyoming lake fifty million years ago. Archeo on Upper Duval calls it ancient art for modern living, and means it fairly literally.
Shade Ceramics & Shutter Photography
Gallery & studio in Key West specializing in ceramics, fine art photography, and custom works.
Zero Mile Art
The green Mile 0 sign at Whitehead and Fleming is the photograph people drive the whole Overseas Highway to take, and this shop sits on the corner. Art prints and local gifts inside, plus cold drinks and key lime pie, open until eight.
Mzoe Arts
Mzoe Arts is a Key West ceramics studio and artisan brand by South African-born potter Thabane Mpofu, crafting one-of-a-kind hand-built ceramic creations inspired by his late father's artistry and a mission to employ and mentor fellow artisans from his community.
Art On Duval Key West, A Procaccini Gallery
Around twenty painters and photographers on one of the busiest blocks of Duval, from painted surfboards to the founder's own photographs of Keys water and light. Time your trip for winter and you can meet the artists in person.
Steve Diossy Marine Art Gallery
Steve Diossy designed Florida's Protect Wild Dolphins license plate in 1998, and it went on to become the state's best-selling specialty plate. His gallery at 404 Duval has the originals and the prints, and it closes for an hour at five every evening for happy hour.
Clay Space
A working ceramics studio on Stock Island built around teaching, offering classes, private lessons and studio memberships. Visitors can put their hands on clay here rather than just look at finished pots.