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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LIK Fine Art
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.
Key West
90 Miles to Cuba
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.
Key West
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.
Key West
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.
Key West
Cocco & Salem Gallery
A gallery of Key West painters on Upper Duval, open since 2009 and anchored by Jim Salem, who is half the name over the door. Tuesday through Sunday, closed Mondays, and by appointment if that suits you better.
Key West
Garlic Grater with Love
Garlic Grater with Love is a 14-year-old artisan brand crafting distinctive handmade ceramic garlic grater bowls and eco-friendly scrubbie sponges, found at the Key West Artisan Market at Higgs Beach and available online for those who want to bring a piece of handmade artistry home from the Keys.
Islamorada
Coconuts Art Studio
Arana Glass has been painting faces onto coconuts for more than thirty years, and since 2020 she and her husband have been hiding them around the Keys for strangers to find and keep. Her studio at mile marker 86.7 in Islamorada has the originals, the prints, and a good deal more.
