Art galleries in Knoxville

Looking for art in Knoxville, Tennessee? There are 3 galleries mapped here. That's 3 galleries mapped around Knoxville. 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 Knoxville (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include University of Tennessee Knoxville art Gallery and Lilienthal Gallery, plus Broadway Studios and Gallery. If a gallery's missing from Knoxville's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Knoxville gallery lineup

3 in Knoxville, plus 2 more around Knoxville below:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Knoxville

None of the 3 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.

The Knoxville gallery walk

Making a day of it in Knoxville? Work this order: University of Tennessee Knoxville art Gallery, Lilienthal Gallery, and Broadway Studios and Gallery. That's the gallery walk in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Gallery tips for Knoxville

How the regulars do Knoxville's galleries:

• Don't skip the project room at University of Tennessee Knoxville art Gallery. The small back room often holds the most interesting work — emerging artists, experiments, one-night installations.
• Small galleries take risks at Lilienthal Gallery. Artist-run spaces show the work the big institutions won't. Some of it's baffling; some of it's the future.
• Buy local art if you can. An original from a local artist costs less than you think and means more than any print. Start with works on paper.
• The café is part of the visit. If the gallery has a café, use it. Lingering over coffee after the show is half the experience.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Knoxville — 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 Knoxville can take a while to appear. The 3 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 3 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.

Worth the trip: more art galleries around Knoxville

2 more within about 40 km of Knoxville, nearest first: