Art galleries in Honolulu

Honolulu, HI has 9 art galleries on the map. That's 9 galleries mapped around Honolulu. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Many are free to enter, so the only cost of a gallery afternoon is your time.

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

The Honolulu gallery lineup

9 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Honolulu

3 of the 9 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.

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

There's a cluster: 2 of them sit on 66-250 Kamehameha Highway, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.

3 galleries list websites — that's where the current exhibition is announced, and it's the one thing worth checking before you visit.

The Honolulu gallery walk

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Wyland Galleries on 66-250 Kamehameha Highway, Gallery ‘Iolani, Lik, Waimea Blue Ocean Art Gallery on 66-250 Kamehameha Highway, Tabora Gallery on 66-160 Kamehameha Highway, Kai Ku Hale on 66-145 Kamehameha Highway, Mahinalani Island Art Gallery on 55-370 Kamehameha Highway, and Kap Culture and Art Gallery on 55-370 Kamehameha Highway. That's 9 stops on the Honolulu gallery walk. 1 more are listed below.

Gallery tips for Honolulu

Gallery-going in Honolulu? A few habits help:

• The bookshop corner is curated at Wyland Galleries. Gallery bookshops stock the art books the big stores don't. Worth ten minutes on the way out.
• Ask the gallerist at Gallery ‘Iolani. They know the work, the artists, and what's coming next. Most are delighted when someone asks a real question.
• Check the exhibition schedule first. A gallery is only as good as its current show. Two minutes on the website saves a wasted trip between exhibitions.
• Don't rush the video work. Video installations need their full runtime. Sit down, give it the minutes it asks for.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Honolulu — 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 Honolulu can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 9, or a art gallery we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

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 9 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.