Art galleries in Karachi
Galleries are best taken slowly. Karachi, Sindh has 19 mapped right now. That's 19 galleries mapped around Karachi. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Opening nights are the cheat code — free entry, the artists in the room, and a crowd that actually wants to talk about the work.
This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Karachi (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Artciti and Art Scene Gallery, plus Sanat. If a gallery's missing from Karachi's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Karachi gallery lineup
19 mapped within about 40 km:
Artciti
Art gallery
Artciti — Art gallery, found on Khayaban e Shujaat in Karachi.
Khayaban e Shujaat, Karachi
Art Scene Gallery
Art gallery
Art Scene Gallery — Art gallery, found on Shahrah e Firdousi in Karachi.
Shahrah e Firdousi, Karachi
Sanat
Art gallery
Sanat is Art gallery on Shahrah e Firdousi, Karachi.
Shahrah e Firdousi, Karachi
Gandhara-Art Gallery
Art gallery
Gandhara-Art Gallery — Art gallery, found on Shahrah e Attar in Karachi.
Shahrah e Attar, Karachi
Canvas Gallery- Clifton 4
Art gallery
Canvas Gallery- Clifton 4 is Art gallery on E Street, Karachi.
E Street, Karachi
Clifton Art Gallery
Art gallery
Clifton Art Gallery — Art gallery, found on E Street in Karachi.
E Street, Karachi
Thar Gallery
Art gallery
Thar Gallery is Art gallery on 9th Commercial Lane, Karachi.
9th Commercial Lane, Karachi
Grandeur Art Gallery
Art gallery
Grandeur Art Gallery is Art gallery on Zamzama Boulevard, Karachi.
Zamzama Boulevard, Karachi
YBQ Designs Studio
Art gallery
YBQ Designs Studio — Art gallery.
Sanat Initiative
Art gallery
Sanat Initiative — Art gallery.
Mehendi Art by Suman
Art gallery
Mehendi Art by Suman is Art gallery on Karimabad, meena bazar Karimabad Block 3 Gulberg Town, Karachi.
Karimabad, meena bazar Karimabad Block 3 Gulberg Town, Karachi
ArtKaam Gallery
Art gallery
ArtKaam Gallery is Art gallery on First Floor, Building No C، 117 Brooks Chowrangi, Makhdoom Bilawal Chs (Mbchs) Sector 31 A Korangi Industrial Area,, Karachi.
First Floor, Building No C، 117 Brooks Chowrangi, Makhdoom Bilawal Chs (Mbchs) Sector 31 A Korangi Industrial Area,, Karachi
Reliable Frames
Art gallery
Reliable Frames — Art gallery, found on Block E North Nazimabad Town in Karachi.
Block E North Nazimabad Town, Karachi
Creative ideas by Bini
Art gallery
Creative ideas by Bini — Art gallery, found on D-167, 4 Block, FB Area Block 4 Karimabad in Karachi.
D-167, 4 Block, FB Area Block 4 Karimabad, Karachi
Komal Naheed
Art gallery
Komal Naheed is Art gallery on 1st floor, House No# 160/12, block 5 Nazimabad Rd, Aurangabad Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh 74600, Pakistan, Karachi. Komal Naheed also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
1st floor, House No# 160/12, block 5 Nazimabad Rd, Aurangabad Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh 74600, Pakistan, Karachi
Tashifa Fayyaz
Art gallery
Tashifa Fayyaz is Art gallery on Faqir Colony Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh, Pakistan, Karachi.
Faqir Colony Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh, Pakistan, Karachi
S M Art Institute
Art gallery
S M Art Institute — Art gallery, found on Near Post Office Saeedabad Baldia Town, Sector 5 Gulshan e Habib, Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh 75760, Pakistan in karachi. Also worth knowing about S M Art Institute: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Near Post Office Saeedabad Baldia Town, Sector 5 Gulshan e Habib, Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh 75760, Pakistan, karachi
Phone: 03462337862
Artline Studio
Art gallery
Artline Studio — Art gallery, found on 34c Khayaban-e-Shamsheer, DHA Phase 5 Stadium Commercial Area Defence V Defence Housing Authority in Karachi.
34c Khayaban-e-Shamsheer, DHA Phase 5 Stadium Commercial Area Defence V Defence Housing Authority, Karachi
Sheikhain Art Gallery & Studio
Art gallery
Sheikhain Art Gallery & Studio is Art gallery on A118, Main Sardar Ali Sabri Rd, Block 5 Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi.
A118, Main Sardar Ali Sabri Rd, Block 5 Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi
What the map tells us about art galleries in Karachi
None of the 19 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Smaller galleries can keep irregular hours, so check the website before a special trip.
There's a cluster: 2 of them sit on Shahrah e Firdousi, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.
The Karachi gallery walk
The efficient Karachi gallery walk strings these together: Artciti on Khayaban e Shujaat, Art Scene Gallery on Shahrah e Firdousi, Sanat on Shahrah e Firdousi, Gandhara-Art Gallery on Shahrah e Attar, Canvas Gallery- Clifton 4 on E Street, Clifton Art Gallery on E Street, Thar Gallery on 9th Commercial Lane, and Grandeur Art Gallery on Zamzama Boulevard — 19 stops, one logical order. 11 more are listed below.
Gallery tips for Karachi
A few things worth knowing before you work through Karachi's art galleries:
- Follow the galleries online at Artciti. Openings and one-night events get announced on social media first. One follow catches them all.
- Ask about the artists at Art Scene Gallery. Local, emerging, mid-career — the gallerist can tell you who's who and why this show matters.
- Many galleries are free. Smaller and artist-run spaces often charge nothing. When in doubt, check the website rather than assuming.
- Note the curator's name. Good curators have taste you can follow. If you loved the show, look up what else they've put together.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Karachi — 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 Karachi can take a while to appear. The 19 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 19 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.
Art gallery listings for Karachi: 19 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.