Art galleries in Chiang Mai

Looking for art in Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai? There are 8 galleries mapped here. That's 8 galleries mapped around Chiang Mai. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Ask the gallerist what's on — they're usually delighted someone asked.

This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Chiang Mai (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Wattana Art Gallery and Celapot Gallery, plus Mai Space. If a gallery's missing from Chiang Mai's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Chiang Mai gallery lineup

8 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Chiang Mai

2 of the 8 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.

2 have websites listed. That's where the current exhibition is announced — the one thing worth checking before you visit.

The Chiang Mai gallery walk

Making a day of it in Chiang Mai? Work this order: Wattana Art Gallery, Celapot Gallery on 522/1 ต.เชิงดอย ถ. ดอยสะเก็ด-บ่อสร้าง, Mai Space on 23/1 Charoenprathet, New Regional Art Gallery Ltd., Supthongkhum Sr Stidio 3 on 176, Maiiam, หอศิลป์เทา, and Wanlop Hansunthai Gallery. That's the gallery walk in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Gallery tips for Chiang Mai

How the regulars do Chiang Mai's galleries:

• Ask the gallerist at Wattana Art Gallery. They know the work, the artists, and what's coming next. Most are delighted when someone asks a real question.
• Small galleries take risks at Celapot Gallery. Artist-run spaces show the work the big institutions won't. Some of it's baffling; some of it's the future.
• Kids are welcome (usually). Most galleries are fine with children; the contemporary ones especially. Call ahead if you're unsure.
• First Fridays and art walks. Many towns run a monthly evening when galleries open late together. The easiest way to see everything at once.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Chiang Mai — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Chiang Mai can take a while to appear. The 8 above are only as current as the community map. A art gallery that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 8 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.