Art galleries in Tampa
Tampa, FL has 19 art galleries on the map. That's 19 galleries mapped around Tampa. 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 Tampa (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Ocean Blue Galleries and Art Lounge and Gallery, plus Mize Gallery. If a gallery's missing from Tampa's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Tampa gallery lineup
19 mapped within about 40 km:
Ocean Blue Galleries
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Ocean Blue Galleries — Art gallery, found on 284 Beach Drive Northeast in Saint Petersburg.
284 Beach Drive Northeast, Saint Petersburg, 33701
Art Lounge and Gallery
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Art Lounge and Gallery is Art gallery.
Mize Gallery
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Mize Gallery is Art gallery on 689 Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Street North, Saint Petersburg. Mize Gallery also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
689 Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Street North, Saint Petersburg, 33701
Urban Arts Gallery
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Urban Arts Gallery — Art gallery, found on 2323 Central Avenue in Saint Petersburg. Also worth knowing about Urban Arts Gallery: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
2323 Central Avenue, Saint Petersburg, 33713
Phone: +1-305-310-6177
Scarfone/Hartley Gallery
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Scarfone/Hartley Gallery is Art gallery on 310 North Boulevard, Tampa.
310 North Boulevard, Tampa, 33606
Dean Street Fine Art Gallery
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Dean Street Fine Art Gallery is Art gallery on 403 West Grand Central Avenue, Tampa. Dean Street Fine Art Gallery also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-16:00; Su 10:00-14:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
403 West Grand Central Avenue, Tampa, 33606
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-16:00; Su 10:00-14:00
Phone: +1-813-696-1066
Syd Entel Galleries
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Syd Entel Galleries is Art gallery on 247 Main Street, Safety Harbor.
247 Main Street, Safety Harbor, 34695
Lois Bajor Fine Art- Mermaid Studio
Art galleryRun by Lois Bajor
Run by Lois Bajor, Lois Bajor Fine Art- Mermaid Studio is Art gallery, found on 720 Riverside Drive in Tarpon Springs. Also worth knowing about Lois Bajor Fine Art- Mermaid Studio: the map lists its hours as "By appointment".
720 Riverside Drive, Tarpon Springs, 34689
Hours: "By appointment"
Creative Genius
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Creative Genius — Art gallery.
C2 Fine Art Gallery
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C2 Fine Art Gallery — Art gallery.
The Gallery at 1920
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The Gallery at 1920 is Art gallery on 1920 East 7th Avenue, Tampa. The Gallery at 1920 also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
1920 East 7th Avenue, Tampa, 33605
Marlene Rose
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Marlene Rose — Art gallery, found on 416 Cleveland Street in Clearwater. Also worth knowing about Marlene Rose: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-16:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
416 Cleveland Street, Clearwater, 33755
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-16:00
Phone: +1-727-447-7673
August Vernon Studios
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August Vernon Studios — Art gallery, found on 3043 Beach Boulevard South in Gulfport. Also worth knowing about August Vernon Studios: the map lists its hours as Tu 12:00-18:00; We 12:00-20:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
3043 Beach Boulevard South, Gulfport, 33707-5573
Hours: Tu 12:00-18:00; We 12:00-20:00
Phone: +1-412-953-3036
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts
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Florida Museum of Photographic Arts — Art gallery, found on 1630 E. 7th Ave Ybor in Tampa. Also worth knowing about Florida Museum of Photographic Arts: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 10:00-17:00; Su 12:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
1630 E. 7th Ave Ybor, Tampa, 33605
Hours: Tu-Sa 10:00-17:00; Su 12:00-17:00
Phone: +1-813-221-2222
Woodfield Fine Art
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Woodfield Fine Art — Art gallery, found on 2323 Central Avenue in Saint Petersburg.
2323 Central Avenue, Saint Petersburg, 33713
Craftsman House
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Craftsman House is Art gallery on 2955 Central Avenue, Saint Petersburg. Craftsman House also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-18:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
2955 Central Avenue, Saint Petersburg, 33713
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-18:00
Phone: +1 727-323-2787
Duncan McClellan Gallery
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Duncan McClellan Gallery — Art gallery, found on 2342 Emerson Avenue South in Saint Petersburg. Also worth knowing about Duncan McClellan Gallery: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
2342 Emerson Avenue South, Saint Petersburg, 33712
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-17:00
Phone: +1-855-436-4527
Tarpon Art Guild
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Tarpon Art Guild — Art gallery.
R. K. Bailey Art Studios
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R. K. Bailey Art Studios — Art gallery, found on 310 North Boulevard in Tampa. Also worth knowing about R. K. Bailey Art Studios: it has a website with more detail.
310 North Boulevard, Tampa, 33606
What the map tells us about art galleries in Tampa
7 of the 19 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.
9 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 2323 Central Avenue, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.
9 galleries list websites — that's where the current exhibition is announced, and it's the one thing worth checking before you visit.
The Tampa gallery walk
The efficient Tampa gallery walk strings these together: Ocean Blue Galleries on 284 Beach Drive Northeast, Art Lounge and Gallery, Mize Gallery on 689 Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Street North, Urban Arts Gallery on 2323 Central Avenue, Scarfone/Hartley Gallery on 310 North Boulevard, Dean Street Fine Art Gallery on 403 West Grand Central Avenue, Syd Entel Galleries on 247 Main Street, and Lois Bajor Fine Art- Mermaid Studio on 720 Riverside Drive — 19 stops, one logical order. 11 more are listed below.
Gallery tips for Tampa
A few things worth knowing before you work through Tampa's art galleries:
- Read the wall text at Ocean Blue Galleries. It's short and it's there to help. Even the cryptic ones give you a way into the work.
- Ask what's coming next at Art Lounge and Gallery. Gallerists love talking about the next show. It also tells you when to come back.
- Check for artist talks. Talks, walkthroughs and panel discussions are often free and turn a good show into a great evening.
- Small galleries take risks. Artist-run spaces show the work the big institutions won't. Some of it's baffling; some of it's the future.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Tampa — 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 Tampa can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 19, 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 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 Tampa: 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.