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Credit: Installation image of Future Memoria at Surrey Art Gallery, summer 2024. Photo by NK Photo.

Exhibitions

Experience contemporary art by local, national and international artists. Browse current and past exhibitions.

We've shown over 500 exhibitions and 12,000 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.

Various artworks in a gallery space with white and red walls: a sandwich board with the phrase "the end is near" on it, a sculpture of pennies on an apron, and paintings, one of which shows a storefront on fire.

    

Installation image of Future Memoria at Surrey Art Gallery, summer 2024. Photo by NK Photo.

Current & upcoming exhibitions

Entrance to Surrey Art Gallery and Surrey Arts Centre showing a colourful vinyl window mural.
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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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Colourful mural by Sandeep Johal on Surrey Arts Centre classroom windows, with 3 people nearby.
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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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A person with their arms out-wide is in front of an interactive exhibit. Plant shapes of green, red, yellow, blue and purple colours can be seen against a pale blue screen that suggest snow and the outdoors.
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Cheryl Pagurek: Winter Garden

Interact with this digital collage developed out of a still life photography series taken during the winter 2021 lockdown.

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A crouching woman attaches a piece of felt to a blanket hanging on the wall.
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a'su'n – blanket

Make your mark on a blanket reflecting on the flora and fauna of Bear Creek Park!

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A ceramic of a dark green hippopotamus morphing into a dragonfruit.
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Art by Surrey Secondary Students

This biennial exhibit showcases the variety and depth of art education and young artists in Surrey School District.

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Varvara and Mar: We Are The Clouds
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Varvara & Mar: We Are the Clouds

Join a community of clouds in this interactive art installation.

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An installation of numerous maple seeds connected through threads and suspended on a white ceiling.
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A Tangled Thicket

Experience paintings and handcrafted installations by four Surrey artists that explore the relationship between nature and the human mind. 

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Visitors to Surrey Arts Centre line the lobby space, looking at artworks on the walls.
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ARTS 2025

Experience a range of artworks from local artists in this annual juried exhibition.

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A projected artwork of blues and whites is shown on the exterior of Surrey Central Library at nighttime, which is lit up inside. A tall tower stands behind it.
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Annie Briard: Refracted Fields

This new video projection at UrbanScreen in Surrey City Plaza reinterprets British Columbia topographies and how we perceive them.

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Six abstract sculptures of people stand on a table.
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10 and 10: Story of Stories

This 50th anniversary exhibition pairs permanent collection artworks acquired from the first ten years of collecting (1975–1985) and the last ten years (2014–2024) through themes of landscape, architecture, portraiture, and movement. 

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Past exhibitions

Waves of red, orange, and pale blue are projected on the facade of Surrey City Centre Library whose windows are lit up. A skyscraper stands in the distance behind.
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Nicolas Sassoon: Liquid Landscapes

UrbanScreen returns with Nicolas Sassoon's hypnotic pixel animations.

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A futuristic figure wearing a long, cylindrical headpiece and patterned clothes looks towards the left of the painting against a backdrop of colourful swirls.
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Rajni Perera: Futures

Through painting, sculpture, and photography, Rajni Perera expresses her vision of imagined futures in which mutated subjects adapt to exist in dystopian realms through strength and resilience. 

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Black and white photograph of two men, their eyes covered over by celluloid tape
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Pass the Mic!

Experience a variety of art created by people who find themselves typically outside the mainstream art world.

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Quilt with various green squares bordering a scene of farmworkers pulling up hay against a tall grassy field.
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Jagdeep Raina: Ghosts In The Fields

Experience textiles, drawings, and ceramics about BC migrant workers in the 1970s and 1980s.

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A group of white flowers clustered in a curving line. Towards the left bottom hand corner of the image are blue and green gradients of colour, while the top right corner of the image is a buttercup yellow with some flecks of darker colours. The colours are not even but appear to be smeared on in some areas, while others have white beneath.
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Surrey Artswest Society 2024

See recent artworks produced by Surrey Artswest Society members, including paintings, drawings, mixed media works, and more.

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An inforgraphic in the shape of a circle that appears to resemble a blue human eye. The circle is made up of long lines of blue.
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Future Memoria

In Future Memoria, selections from the 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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Repeated patterns and point by point brush strokes. These patterns are gradients of green that play with light and shadow. There are rows of round domes that give a prismatic look. Each dome partially covers the bottom of the dome above it. From a glance, it can appear to tbe the tops of the trees. On each dome is a yellow or white flower shape.
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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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A photograph of a theatre stage that shows numerous backdrop structures, some green, some yellow, and some with flowers falling over the top. Some structures form a rectangular roof, while others are round portals.
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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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A view of an inlet, where the ocean water is sparkling with pink and white light, mirroring a sky of peach tones, and land in dark with trees in shadow can be seen in the background.
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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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A turquoise-coloured duck on a lake with large sun flowers, plants, and sun behind it.
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Art by Surrey Elementary School Students

Biennial exhibit showcases the variety and depth of art education in Surrey School District. 

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