Art galleries in St. Louis
Galleries are best taken slowly. St. Louis, MO has 16 mapped right now. That's 16 galleries mapped around St. Louis. 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 St. Louis (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Des Lee Gallery and Flood Plain, plus WashU Sam Fox School Gallery. If a gallery's missing from St. Louis's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The St. Louis gallery lineup
16 mapped within about 40 km:
Des Lee Gallery
Art gallery
Des Lee Gallery is Art gallery on 1627 Washington Avenue, Saint Louis. Des Lee Gallery also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
1627 Washington Avenue, Saint Louis, 63103
Phone: +1 314-621-8735
Flood Plain
Art gallery
Flood Plain is Art gallery on 3151 Cherokee Street, Saint Louis. Flood Plain also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Sa 12:00-17:00 "during exhibitions or by appointment"; it has a website with more detail.
3151 Cherokee Street, Saint Louis, 63118
Hours: Sa 12:00-17:00 "during exhibitions or by appointment"
WashU Sam Fox School Gallery
Art gallery
WashU Sam Fox School Gallery is Art gallery on 6128 Delmar Boulevard, Saint Louis. WashU Sam Fox School Gallery also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
6128 Delmar Boulevard, Saint Louis, 63112
Salon and Gallery
Art gallery
Salon and Gallery — Art gallery, found on 2309 Cherokee Street in Saint Louis.
2309 Cherokee Street, Saint Louis, 63118
Artisans in the Loop
Art gallery
Artisans in the Loop is Art gallery on 6511 Delmar Boulevard. Artisans in the Loop also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Su, We 12:00-17:00; Th-Sa 12:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
6511 Delmar Boulevard, 63130
Hours: Su, We 12:00-17:00; Th-Sa 12:00-19:00
Phone: +1 314-833-3540
Concrete Ocean Art Gallery
Art gallery
Concrete Ocean Art Gallery is Art gallery.
Schmmiter Gallery
Art galleryRun by Whitfield School
Run by Whitfield School, Schmmiter Gallery is Art gallery.
Wildfruit Gallery
Art gallery
Wildfruit Gallery is Art gallery on 4704 Virginia Avenue, St. Louis.
4704 Virginia Avenue, St. Louis, 63111
Chad M. Lawson Fine Art
Art gallery
Chad M. Lawson Fine Art — Art gallery, found on 1905 Park Avenue in Saint Louis.
1905 Park Avenue, Saint Louis, 63104
Missouri Artists On Main
Art gallery
Missouri Artists On Main — Art gallery on 321 South Main Street. Also worth knowing about Missouri Artists On Main: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 11:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
321 South Main Street, 63301
Hours: Mo-Su 11:00-17:00
Phone: +16367241260
Green Root Gallery
Art gallery
Green Root Gallery is Art gallery on 125 East Main Street, Belleville. Green Root Gallery also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Fr-Sa 10:00-18:00; Su,Th 10:00-14:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
125 East Main Street, Belleville, 62220-1606
Hours: Fr-Sa 10:00-18:00; Su,Th 10:00-14:00
Phone: +1-618-510-9116
Aronson Fine Arts Center @ Laumeier Sculpture Park
Art gallery
Aronson Fine Arts Center @ Laumeier Sculpture Park — Art gallery. Also worth knowing about Aronson Fine Arts Center @ Laumeier Sculpture Park: the map lists its hours as May Mo[-1]-Sep Mo[1]: Fr 10:00-20:00,10:00-16:00.
Hours: May Mo[-1]-Sep Mo[1]: Fr 10:00-20:00,10:00-16:00
Towata
Art gallery
Towata is Art gallery on 206 West 3rd Street, Alton. Towata also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
206 West 3rd Street, Alton, 62002
Phone: +1-618-462-5926
Art and Design West
Art gallery
Art and Design West is Art gallery on 71 Circle Drive, Edwardville.
71 Circle Drive, Edwardville, 62026
Marianist Art Gallery
Art galleryRun by St. John Vianney High School
Marianist Art Gallery is Art gallery run by St. John Vianney High School.
Kirkwood, 63122
Aronson Fine Arts Center
Art gallery
Aronson Fine Arts Center — Art gallery.
What the map tells us about art galleries in St. Louis
5 of the 16 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.
6 have websites listed. That's where the current exhibition is announced — the one thing worth checking before you visit.
6 galleries list websites — that's where the current exhibition is announced, and it's the one thing worth checking before you visit.
The St. Louis gallery walk
The efficient St. Louis gallery walk strings these together: Des Lee Gallery on 1627 Washington Avenue, Flood Plain on 3151 Cherokee Street, WashU Sam Fox School Gallery on 6128 Delmar Boulevard, Salon and Gallery on 2309 Cherokee Street, Artisans in the Loop on 6511 Delmar Boulevard, Concrete Ocean Art Gallery, Schmmiter Gallery, and Wildfruit Gallery on 4704 Virginia Avenue — 16 stops, one logical order. 8 more are listed below.
Gallery tips for St. Louis
A few things worth knowing before you work through St. Louis's art galleries:
- Ask about private views at Des Lee Gallery. Mailing lists get you invited to previews — quieter, with the artists around and first pick of the work.
- Ask the gallerist at Flood Plain. They know the work, the artists, and what's coming next. Most are delighted when someone asks a real question.
- Don't rush the video work. Video installations need their full runtime. Sit down, give it the minutes it asks for.
- Ask about the price list. It's normal to ask, even if you're not buying. It tells you how the market values the work.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around St. Louis — 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 St. Louis can take a while to appear. The 16 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 16 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 St. Louis: 16 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.