Art & Photography Galleries

Tony Chatman's photographs come finished in epoxy resin, which gives the water in them a depth a flat print cannot. He was the official artist for the 2026 Key West Food & Wine Festival, and the gallery sits on Lazy Way Lane in the Historic Seaport.

Monroe County's official arts agency is the reason there are 19 monumental sculptures standing along the Overseas Highway from Key West to Key Largo. Its free gallery guide, cultural calendar and public art maps are the fastest way to find what is happening while you are here.

Jessica Ann Art — original marine-life acrylic paintings in Florida Keys, where conservation meets Caribbean color.

Adam Russell and Kelly Lever have been making pottery in Key West since 2009, from mugs and bowls to fish sculptures that stand taller than the people looking at them. Everything in their Duval Street gallery was made on this island by one of the two of them.

Nineteen Keys artists share the walls at this Simonton Street gallery, with new shows going up every month through the season. The frame shop in the same space will mat, frame, pack and ship whatever you buy.

Barb Sage paints roller skates, lamps, vintage mannequins and wooden signs in colors you can spot from across the room. Whimsy Key West works out of Sacred Space on Stock Island, a collective of nine local women artists.

Isaac Valdes sets up at the Sunset Celebration every night, with giclée prints, digital work and hand-carved pieces framed by his wife Danay in salvaged lobster trap wood. Find him at Mallory Square from about 6:15pm.

On the third Thursday of every month, the stretch of Old Highway between mile markers 81 and 82 fills up for the Morada Way Art Walk, with galleries open late, live music in the courtyards and food from Islamorada’s kitchens. The studios are open on ordinary days too.

Michelle Nicole Lowe painted the cover of the 2023 Keys Traveler, a watercolor marking two hundred years of the Florida Keys. She is a fifth-generation Conch whose great-grandfather sailed over from Green Turtle Cay, and she paints the fish, birds and old bridges she grew up around.

Maggie Ruley paints Key West in acrylic, sometimes from a picnic table at Fort Zachary Taylor with a water bucket and a stack of snacks. Her Fleming Street studio sells the paintings and teaches you to make your own on Tuesdays.

Peter Lik photographs Key West water, and the gallery on Duval hangs those images alongside the panoramas that made his name. Open until nine every night, with Brazilian ebony underfoot and the lights turned down so the prints do the work.

Bella Laine is a Key West candle studio, boutique, and gallery offering hand-poured candles, jewelry, artwork, and gifts.

Rachel Burrows Art and Jewelry is a Key West local artisan creating and selling original art and handcrafted jewelry at the Key West Artisan Market, Key West Farmers Market, and local events throughout the Florida Keys.

A weather-beaten shell-cleaning shack in the Historic Seaport, now packed with ships' portholes, old anchors, antique postcards of Cuba and paintings of a Key West that mostly is not there anymore. It opens a few afternoons a week, so check before you walk over.

Gallery & studio of women artists—expressive art in Key West