Carmel Art Association, Art museum in Carmel-by-the-Sea, United States.

The Carmel Art Association is a non-profit gallery at Dolores Street and Fifth Avenue in Carmel-by-the-Sea, founded in 1927 and the town's oldest gallery. It shows paintings, sculptures and prints by artists living on the Monterey Peninsula, among them early California artists such as Percy Gray and Jo Mora.

The museum was founded in 1927 by a group of artists including Jennie V. Cannon and stands as one of the oldest continuously operating art galleries in Carmel. The institution has established itself over decades as a stable venue for presenting work from the region.

The artists represented here are all rooted in the Monterey Peninsula community and use this space to share their work. Visitors encounter work from their neighbors and can learn directly how local creative practitioners approach their craft.

The museum is located on Dolores Street between 5th and 6th Avenue and is open daily for visitors. Admission is free and the location is easy to reach on foot from downtown Carmel.

The association's first exhibition, held in June 1928 at Stanford Art Gallery, showed oils and watercolors by 25 members, among them Percy Gray's "Coast Near Monterey". Salvador Dalí later joined the CAA and on June 8, 1947 served as an art expert and juror in a contest it sponsored for high school students from Albany High School in Oakland.