Seattle galleries, museums & art spaces
Find art across Seattle.
Explore major museums, small galleries, artist-run rooms, and community spaces—with the practical details for a real visit.
Across Seattle
Find your next art stop.
Museums, commercial galleries, artist-run rooms, community spaces, and temporary projects—from north Seattle through Georgetown.
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle’s largest art museum presents collection galleries and changing exhibitions spanning regions, periods, and media. Its downtown location is one block from Pike Place Market.
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- Wed 10–5 · Thu 10–8 · Fri–Sun 10–5
Seattle Asian Art Museum
Seattle Art Museum’s Volunteer Park location presents Asian art in an Art Deco building, combining collection galleries with changing exhibitions and programs.
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- Wed–Sun 10–5
Olympic Sculpture Park
Seattle Art Museum’s waterfront sculpture park places monumental works along an outdoor path between Belltown and Elliott Bay, with city, rail, and water views.
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- Daily · 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset
Frye Art Museum
A free First Hill art museum combining collection presentations with changing exhibitions and public programs—a substantial museum visit without an admission charge.
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- Wed–Sun 11–5 · Thu until 8
Henry Art Gallery
The University of Washington’s museum for contemporary art and ideas presents changing exhibitions and draws on collections including photography, prints, textiles, and contemporary work.
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- Thu 10–7 · Fri–Sun 10–5
Chihuly Garden and Glass
A Seattle Center museum devoted to Dale Chihuly’s glass, with indoor galleries, the Glasshouse, and a planted garden designed around large-scale installations.
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- Daily · hours vary by date
Wing Luke Museum
A community-developed museum of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander histories and experiences, with visual-art exhibitions alongside cultural and historical galleries.
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- Wed–Sun 10–5
Northwest African American Museum
A museum and cultural center presenting the histories, arts, and cultures of people of African descent in the Pacific Northwest through exhibitions and public programs.
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- Wed–Sun 10–5
National Nordic Museum
A Ballard museum devoted to Nordic history, culture, art, and design. It belongs in broader visual culture rather than being presented as a conventional fine-art gallery.
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- Tue–Sun 10–5 · Thu until 8
Museum of Pop Culture
A Seattle Center museum focused on music, film, fashion, games, and popular culture, with immersive exhibitions and a large collection of artifacts rather than a conventional fine-art program.
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- Mon–Fri 10–5 · Sat–Sun 8:30–5
Greg Kucera Gallery
A longstanding Pioneer Square gallery presenting contemporary art through exhibitions, a represented-artist program, affiliated artists, and selected secondary-market work.
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- Tue–Sat 10:30–5:30
Foster/White Gallery
A longstanding Pioneer Square gallery presenting modern and contemporary painting, photography, and sculpture by artists from the Northwest and beyond.
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- Tue–Sat 10–6
Traver Gallery
A commercial gallery with a particular strength in contemporary studio glass alongside painting, sculpture, installation, and work in other materials.
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- Tue–Sat 10–6
Fountainhead Gallery
A Queen Anne gallery showing representational and abstract work across painting and mixed media, with a strong selection of landscapes, figures, still life, and Seattle scenes.
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- Tue–Fri 10–6 · Sat 10–5
Harris Harvey Gallery
A contemporary gallery presenting artists from the West Coast and wider region, with work across painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography.
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- Tue–Sat 11–6
Patricia Rovzar Gallery
A downtown commercial gallery with a contemporary program spanning painting, sculpture, glass, photography, and mixed media by established and emerging artists.
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- Tue–Sat 11–5
ArtX Contemporary
A Pioneer Square gallery presenting contemporary artists from the Northwest and around the world, including a dedicated program of Australian Aboriginal art.
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- Tue–Sat 11–5:30 · First Thursdays until 8
J. Rinehart Gallery
A contemporary gallery exhibiting artists from Seattle and beyond, with a program that includes painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and works on paper.
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- Tue–Sat 10–5 · appointments available
Stonington Gallery
A specialist gallery devoted to contemporary art of the Pacific Northwest Coast and Alaska, including carving, glass, prints, painting, weaving, jewelry, and sculpture.
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- Tue–Fri 10–5 · Sat 11–5 · First Thursdays until 8
Gallery IMA
A Pioneer Square contemporary gallery presenting painting, sculpture, ceramics, and works in other media by artists from the Northwest and beyond.
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- Limited / appointment
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- Fri–Sat 10:30–5:30 · other days by appointment
Winston Wächter Fine Art
A contemporary art gallery and consulting firm showing painting, photography, sculpture, and printmaking, with additional modern and contemporary secondary-market work.
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- Tue–Fri 10–5 · Sat 11–5
Woodside/Braseth Gallery
A Seattle gallery with particular depth in historic and modern Northwest art, alongside exhibitions by contemporary regional artists.
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- Tue–Sat 11–6
Gallery Mack
A Belltown fine-art gallery presenting contemporary painting, sculpture, glass, and mixed media, along with a curated secondary-market selection.
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- Tue–Sat 11–5 · Sun–Mon by appointment
Steinbrueck Native Gallery
A specialist gallery focused on art by Indigenous artists of the Northwest Coast, Alaska, and the Arctic, including prints, carvings, sculpture, jewelry, and textiles.
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- Daily 11–5
Roq La Rue Gallery
A Belltown gallery known for contemporary figurative, surreal, and narrative-minded work. Its limited two-day public schedule is an important part of planning a visit.
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- Limited / appointment
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- Fri–Sat 11–5 · appointments available
Hall Spassov Gallery
A Montlake commercial gallery presenting contemporary painting, sculpture, and mixed media in a neighborhood location outside Seattle’s main gallery clusters.
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- Limited / appointment
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- Closed July 23–25 · otherwise Thu–Sat 10–5
AMcE Creative Arts
A Capitol Hill gallery presenting contemporary exhibitions, artist projects, and a small rotating market of art and design objects.
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- Wed 12–3 · Thu–Sat 11–5 · Sun 12–3
Gallery B612 — SoDo
The SoDo branch of Gallery B612 presents contemporary exhibitions and artist programming. It is a separate visitor location from the organization’s Pioneer Square gallery.
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- Limited / appointment
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- Thu 11–5 · Sat 11–3 · Tue/Wed/Fri by appointment
Gallery B612 — Pioneer Square
The Pioneer Square location of Gallery B612 presents contemporary exhibitions and artist programming on First Avenue South, with its own schedule distinct from the SoDo branch.
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- Tue–Fri 11–6 · Sat 11–3 · First Thursdays 2–9
Gray Sky Gallery
A three-level Pioneer Square gallery showing two- and three-dimensional work by Pacific Northwest artists across painting, ceramics, glass, wood, wire, and mixed media.
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- Wed–Sun 12–4 · appointments available
Chatwin Arts
A Pioneer Square gallery and print shop presenting monthly exhibitions and editioned prints by emerging and established artists from the Northwest and beyond.
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- Wed–Sat 11:30–6 · Sun–Tue by appointment
Spectrum Fine Art
A Madrona contemporary-art gallery presenting exhibitions by regional, national, and international artists in a neighborhood setting outside Seattle’s largest gallery clusters.
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- Limited / appointment
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- Thu–Sat 12–5 · appointments available
KOBO at Higo
An artisan gallery and shop in historic Japantown presenting Japanese and Northwest art, craft, and design, with recurring exhibitions and a preserved Higo Variety Store setting.
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- Wed–Sat 11–5 · Sun 12–5
Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar
A Capitol Hill hybrid combining a contemporary art gallery, performance room, and bar, with changing exhibitions and a program that extends beyond conventional gallery hours.
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- Wed–Thu 5–10 · Fri–Sat 5–late · other days event-dependent
studio e gallery
A Georgetown contemporary-art gallery presenting exhibitions by represented artists, guest artists, and curators from a Brandon Street space.
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- Event / exhibition only
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- Closed July 23–25 · then Thu–Sat 11–5 through July 31
Push/Pull
An artist-run Ballard hub for underground art and comics that combines a gallery, art-supply shop, learning center, and studio-oriented community programming.
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- Mon–Sat 10–8 · Sun 9–7
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
A Georgetown bookstore and gallery devoted to comics, illustration, and alternative visual culture, with a new art exhibition mounted roughly once a month.
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- Mon–Sat 11:30–8 · Sun 11:30–5
Gallery 110
A nonprofit artist collective presenting member, guest, and juried exhibitions in Pioneer Square, with a different program from nearby commercial galleries.
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- Limited / appointment
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- Thu–Sat 12–5 · First Thursdays 5–8
SOIL
An artist-run Pioneer Square gallery presenting member and guest exhibitions. Its seasonal schedule is part of the experience, not a footnote.
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- Seasonal
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- Apr–Oct Fri–Sun 12–5 · Nov–Mar Fri–Sun 11–4
Shift Gallery
An artist-run gallery where members and invited artists present contemporary exhibitions, talks, and events in a shared Pioneer Square building.
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- Limited / appointment
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- Fri–Sat 11–4 · First Thursdays 5–8
METHOD Gallery
A nonprofit, noncommercial gallery devoted to installation art, offering artists space to develop immersive and site-responsive projects.
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- Limited / appointment
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- Sat 12–4 · First Thursdays · other times by appointment
CORE Gallery
An artist-run Pioneer Square gallery presenting rotating solo and group exhibitions by local contemporary artists across a range of media.
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- Wed–Sat 12–6 · appointments available
Gallery 4Culture
A public gallery operated by 4Culture, presenting monthly solo and small-group exhibitions by innovative and underrepresented artists and art forms.
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- Mon–Fri 9–5 · holiday closures apply
ARTS at King Street Station
A City of Seattle gallery and cultural space that increases opportunities for communities of color to create and present work, on the top floor of King Street Station.
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- Wed–Sat 11–5 · First Thursdays until 8
Center on Contemporary Art
Center on Contemporary Art, often called CoCA, is a nonprofit presenting contemporary exhibitions and artist programs in a compact Pioneer Square gallery.
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- Limited / appointment
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- Thu–Sat 11–4 · check the gallery schedule
Wa Na Wari
A home-based Black art and community cultural space in the Central District, with exhibitions and programs rooted in Black ownership, belonging, and neighborhood life.
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- Tue–Thu 2–6 · Fri 2–8 · Sat–Sun 11–5
Columbia City Gallery
A south Seattle artists’ cooperative with member, community, and guest exhibitions, plus events and a shop featuring work by local artists.
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- Wed–Sun 11–7
Onyx Fine Arts Collective
A nonprofit collective gallery at Pacific Place that supports and presents artists of African descent from the Pacific Northwest.
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- Limited / appointment
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- Fri–Sun 12–6 · appointments available
Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery
A Delridge gallery, gift shop, and event space centered on Latine artists and other marginalized communities. Its hybrid retail and exhibition roles are part of its identity.
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- Thu–Sat 12–6 · Sun 12–4
Art Stall Gallery
A women-run artist cooperative at Pike Place Market presenting original paintings and prints by local artists, with roots in the movement to preserve the Market.
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- 10–5 · closed Tuesdays
ArtLove Salon
A large downtown zero-commission gallery operated by the Conru Art Foundation, presenting more than 250 contemporary works alongside free events and workshops.
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- Tue–Sat 12–4 · other times by appointment
ARTE NOIR
A nonprofit Central District hub celebrating Black art and culture through curated gallery exhibitions, events, editorial work, and a gift shop featuring Black artists and makers.
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- Wed–Sat 11–7 · Sun 12–6
Photographic Center Northwest Gallery
A nonprofit photography center whose public gallery presents free quarterly exhibitions and programs by local, national, and international photographers.
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- Mon–Thu 12–9 · Fri closed · Sat–Sun 12–6
SlipStitch Studio
A Georgetown contemporary-art space presenting painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, and new media, with an emphasis on diverse and underrepresented artists.
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- Tue–Sat 11–6 · Art Attack second Saturdays 12–8
The Vestibule
A Ballard nonprofit art space presenting contemporary exhibitions, installations, and open calls with an artist-forward program.
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- Limited / appointment
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- Fri–Sat 12–5
Side Rail Collective
A shared Georgetown artist-studio collective with a public gallery, recurring exhibitions, open-studio events, and community sessions.
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- Event / exhibition only
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- Generally Sun 12–4 during exhibitions · additional Art Attack dates
Mini Mart City Park
A Georgetown community art space combining exhibitions, artist residencies, youth programs, environmental work, and Duwamish Valley neighborhood programming.
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- Thu–Sun 12–5 · Art Attack second Saturdays until 8
Walk Up Gallery
A compact North Beacon Hill street gallery presenting rotating art in two former storefront windows, designed to be seen from the sidewalk at any hour.
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- Exterior windows viewable 24 hours a day
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
The University of Washington School of Art’s public gallery presents contemporary exhibitions, student and faculty work, and artist and curatorial programs.
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- Event / exhibition only
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- No current exhibition · next announced opening September 30
SPAC Gallery
Seattle Pacific University Art Department’s public exhibition space presents regional and national artists alongside student projects.
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- Event / exhibition only
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- No current exhibition announced
Coliseum of Art
A temporary summer exhibition of Seattle art, glass, sculpture, and light inside the historic Coliseum Theatre at Pike and Fifth—not a permanent gallery.
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- Temporary
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- Wed–Sun 12–6 · through September 6
SAM Gallery
Seattle Art Museum’s street-level sales and rental gallery presents rotating exhibitions and hundreds of original works by artists from the Pacific Northwest.
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- Wed–Sun 10–5
Cannonball Arts
A large downtown contemporary-art center presenting installations, exhibitions, and programs across a multilevel former retail building near Westlake.
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- Event / exhibition only
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- Public openings vary by date
Vetri
A gallery and storefront specializing in contemporary studio glass alongside ceramics, wood, fiber, jewelry, and design objects by regional and international artists.
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- Seasonal
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- Tue–Sat 10–6 · reopens in person in August
Seattle Glassblowing Studio & Gallery
A longstanding glassblowing studio with a public gallery showing work by more than 100 independent artists, plus an active hot shop visible from the gallery.
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- Daily 10–6
Fogue Studios & Gallery
A Georgetown gallery and studio community focused on artists over 50, with changing exhibitions, interactive projects, workshops, and work across many media.
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- Wed–Sat 12–5 · second Saturdays until 9
Lynn Hanson Gallery
A Pioneer Square gallery presenting changing exhibitions by regional and national artists, including painting, sculpture, photography, and juried group shows.
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- Limited / appointment
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- Fri–Sat 11–4 · First Thursdays 5–8
Occidental Fine Arts
A working studio and public gallery combining contemporary fellowship work with exhibitions and programs connected to Seattle art, objects, and local history.
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- Seasonal
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- Wed–Sun 12–6 during the current summer program
Koplin Del Rio salon
A longstanding contemporary gallery now operating as an appointment-only salon, with installed works and backroom inventory by established and emerging artists.
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- Limited / appointment
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- Mon–Sat 9–5 by appointment · special events
Gallery Erato
The year-round gallery of the Pan Eros Foundation and Seattle Erotic Art Festival presents rotating work about sexuality, gender, identity, relationships, and love.
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- Limited / appointment
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- Thu 12–6 · First Thursdays until 8
Glasshouse Studio
Seattle’s oldest glassblowing studio combines an active production space with a public gallery of hand-blown vessels, sculpture, lighting, and functional work.
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- Mon 10–5 · Tue–Sat 10–5 · Sun 11–4
Azuma Gallery
A specialist gallery presenting traditional and contemporary Japanese fine art, including prints, paintings, ceramics, sculpture, and changing exhibitions.
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- Limited / appointment
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- Thu–Sat 12:30–5:30 · Tue–Wed by appointment
Gallery No. 85
A Pioneer Square gallery continuing Davidson Galleries’ longstanding focus on contemporary and historic fine prints, works on paper, and artist exhibitions.
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- Tue–Sat 11–6
ANTiPODE Art Gallery
A contemporary art organization and Pioneer Square gallery centered on immigrant artists, local exchange, exhibitions, talks, screenings, workshops, and performances.
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- Event / exhibition only
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- Exhibition and event hours vary
Seattle Art Source
A Georgetown gallery and consultancy showing original contemporary work by emerging and established artists, with selected exhibitions, pop-ups, and open-studio events.
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- Limited / appointment
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- By appointment · selected second-Saturday openings
Make a day of it
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Start with Pioneer Square.
Visit an established commercial gallery, an artist-run exhibition, and a free public gallery above King Street Station—all within a compact part of the neighborhood.
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