Best Art Galleries in Aspen
Aspen, Colorado — updated August 22, 2026
Eight Aspen galleries and exhibition spaces, from a photographer-owned room on Mill Street to the Bayer study center on the Aspen Institute campus, ranked by how settled their reviews are.
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Aspen's gallery scene is walkable in an afternoon: most of it sits on a few blocks of South Mill Street and East Cooper Avenue, with a couple of outliers on North Mill and out at the Aspen Institute's Meadows campus. Review counts here are small across the board, because galleries collect far fewer ratings than restaurants, so treat every score below as an early read rather than a verdict. What separates them is specialization: contemporary ceramics in one room, 19th and 20th century master prints in another, minerals downstairs from paintings.
1. Guadalupe Laiz | Aspen Gallery
The best-reviewed gallery in town on the numbers: a perfect 5.0 across 24 reviews, more than any other space on this list, which makes the rating harder to dismiss as a fluke. The gallery shows the work of Argentine photographer Guadalupe Laiz, who owns it, in limited editions drawn from the natural world. Hours are unusually generous for an Aspen gallery: 11am to 6pm Monday through Thursday, and 11am to 8pm Friday through Sunday, so it works as an after-dinner stop in a way most of the others do not. Find it at 306 South Mill Street.
2. Casterline|Goodman Gallery
A contemporary commercial gallery on East Cooper with 18 reviews behind a 4.8, the second-largest sample here. The program runs to solo shows with artist receptions, David Buckingham among them, so it is worth checking what is hanging before walking over. Listed hours are 10am to 6pm, and the gallery map for Aspen's art week shows the same window Friday through Tuesday, which suggests the midweek schedule can vary. The 4.8 rather than a clean 5.0 is arguably a point in its favor: enough visitors have weighed in for the average to have some texture.
3. Red Brick Center For the Arts
The one entry that is not a sales gallery. Red Brick, on East Hallam Street, combines exhibitions of contemporary Colorado artists with classes, public art projects, nonprofit tenants and community events, which makes it the place to go if you would rather make something than look at it. Its calendar includes evening workshops such as a linoleum block printing Creative Happy Hour running 5:30pm to 7:30pm. A 4.9 from 17 reviews is a promising figure rather than a proven one, but the sample is among the larger ones in Aspen.
4. Galerie Maximillian
The deepest bench of historical material downtown: Galerie Maximillian exhibits and deals in 19th and 20th century masters alongside contemporary artists, with more than 40 years of experience behind the operation. It sits at 602 East Cooper Avenue, between Hunter and Spring, a short walk from Casterline|Goodman if you want to see old and new in one loop. The 5.0 rating rests on just 11 reviews, so the score is thin evidence; the four-decade track record is the more useful signal. Call ahead at (970) 925-6100 if you are making a special trip.
5. Raven Gallery
Worth the stop for the lower floor, where mineral and crystal specimens fill the space, an unusual pairing in a town of painting-and-sculpture rooms. Raven keeps seasonal hours: in summer and winter season it opens 10am to 6pm Monday through Saturday and 11am to 6pm Sunday, then shifts to 11am to 5:30pm in the shoulder periods of early June and mid-September through early December. Plan around that if you are visiting off-peak. The rating is 4.9 from 10 reviews, a small sample, and the address is 433 East Cooper Avenue.
6. Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies
An exhibition space and study center devoted to Herbert Bayer, the Bauhaus designer whose work shaped the Aspen Institute campus where it stands, at 610 West Gillespie Street. Free tours of the current exhibition and the Aspen Meadows campus run Tuesday and Thursday at 12:30pm, Saturday at 3pm, and on select Wednesdays, which is the best way to see it. Some programming is free and open to the public, with select summer evenings starting at 5pm. Nine reviews at 5.0 is too small a sample to lean on; the Bayer holdings are the reason to go.
7. Royal Street Fine Art
A South Mill Street gallery whose main draw is how late it stays open: the gallery's own site lists 10am to 10pm daily, and Yelp shows the same window, making it one of the few places in Aspen where looking at art is a post-dinner option. Note that listings disagree on the details. One local directory describes an 8am to 6pm slope-side operation, and the street number appears as both 205 South Mill, Suite 211, and 228 South Mill, so confirm by phone at (970) 920-3371 before heading over. The 5.0 comes from nine reviews.
8. Harvey Preston Gallery
The specialist pick: contemporary ceramic art, works on paper and sculpture, a narrower focus than anything else in town. It is also the most limited in access, open Tuesday through Friday 11am to 5pm, which rules out weekend visitors unless they plan around it. The location, 465 North Mill Street #14, puts it away from the Cooper Avenue cluster. Six reviews at 5.0 is the thinnest evidence on this list, so the ranking reflects sample size rather than any judgment on the work. Email or call ahead at 970-948-0652.