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Exhibitions
Experience contemporary art by local, national and international artists. Browse current and past exhibitions.
We've shown over 500 exhibitions and 10,000 artists at Surrey Art Gallery!
Artists range from local to international and emerging to established. Our exhibition history highlights a diversity of artistic practices from painting and ceramics to sculpture and digital art, including audio art.
Image credit: Gailan Ngan, Double Hearing, 2017, clay, slips, glazes, metal stand, 128 cm x 89 cm x 51 cm. Photo by Dennis Ha. Collection of Surrey Art Gallery. Purchased with support of the Surrey Art Gallery Association.
Spring and Summer Exhibitions
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
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Atheana Picha: Echoes
This window mural at the entrance to Surrey Arts Centre celebrates the cultural importance of Coast Salish mountain goat horn bracelets and the significance the animal has to the people from this territory.
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Sandeep Johal: It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see
This vinyl mural on the Surrey Arts Centre classroom windows invites play, joy, and wonder.
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Josh Hite: A Vista
Spectacular ever-changing sequence of theatrical backdrops in this multimedia installation about performance and labour.
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Takao Tanabe: Printmaker
Organized by the Kelowna Art Gallery with Guest Curator Ian M. Thom, this exhibition features over sixty prints by renowned artist Takao Tanabe from their collection, as well as Vancouver Art Gallery and Winnipeg Art Gallery’s collections.
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ARTS 2024
For over four decades, this annual open-juried exhibition, held in partnership with the Arts Council of Surrey, celebrates the best in local artmaking.
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Future Memoria
In Future Memoria, selections from Gallery’s permanent collection, along with loaned artworks from artists addressing the future in their own practice, embody both dystopian and utopian ideals and the concept of futurity itself; they convey the role art plays in the future’s many imaginings.
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Cheryl Pagurek: Winter Garden
Winter Garden is an interactive digital collage developed out of a still life photography series taken by media artist Cheryl Pagurek during the winter 2021 lockdown.
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Surrey Artswest Society 2024
This exhibition features an eclectic mix of some of the most recent artworks produced by Surrey Artswest Society members, including paintings, drawings, mixed media works, and more.
Past exhibitions
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Zachery Cameron Longboy: Guardian of Sleep
Experience a dream-like layered video art installation.
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Fraser Valley Chapter Presents: Fresh Paint!
See paintings from professional and emerging artists on a variety of themes.
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Mere Phantoms: Shadows Without Borders
Play with light and shadow in this interactive exhibition that explores human displacement, memories of home, and the refugee crisis.
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Charles Campbell: Black Breath Spectacle
Charles Campbell's audiovisual exhibition cultivates exchanges and solidarity within Black communities.
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ARTS 2022
See what local artists are creating in this annual juried exhibition.
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Manjot Kaur: The Pool of Memories
Step into an audiovisual immersive water tank inspired by exhibiting artist Rajesh Vora's photographs of sculptural water tanks in Everyday Monuments.
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Rajesh Vora: Everyday Monuments
See photographs of water tanks and other rooftop sculptures found in India's Punjab region.
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Body as Border: Traces and Flows of Connection
Artificial intelligence, poetry, and biology combine in this immersive outdoor art project.
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Manuel Piña: Naufragios
The ocean becomes a kaleidoscope in this moving video work.
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Art by Surrey Elementary Students
Have a look at what today's youth are creating.