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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.
![Installation view of Gailan Nygan's Double Hearing at Surrey Art Gallery](/sites/default/files/styles/3x2_900w/public/2021-04/install%20shot%206.jpg?h=e4f9e0b1&itok=kZbSgw8u)
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.
Summer Exhibitions
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
![Entrance to Surrey Art Gallery and Surrey Arts Centre showing a colourful vinyl window mural.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2022-08/AthenaPichaEchoes.jpg?h=e514ad9b&itok=AJt9lW1J)
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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.
![Colourful mural by Sandeep Johal on Surrey Arts Centre classroom windows, with 3 people nearby.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2022-10/SandeepJohalMuralWeb_0.jpg?h=ee15e48d&itok=SA6X0eO2)
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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.
![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.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2023-11/still_from_a_vista_portals_josh_hite_march_2019_performance_1hour_48_minutes.png?h=05a500f7&itok=MdoH4Icz)
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Josh Hite: A Vista
Spectacular ever-changing sequence of theatrical backdrops in this multimedia installation about performance and labour.
![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.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2024-04/mae_hee_song_the_way_to_the_light_24-1_2024_acrylic_on_canvas.png?h=2c61325d&itok=UC2Oip9c)
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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.
![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.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2024-03/jer_thorp_hope_crisis.jpg?h=7ff2badb&itok=YTeZlHDP)
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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.
![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.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2024-03/winter-garden-interactive-collage-2-lighter-3-1200x674.jpg?h=004581e8&itok=sTX6Ul0Z)
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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.
![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.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2024-03/donna_schipfel_emotion_2023_acrylic_ink.jpg?h=d67e29a9&itok=p1IWpjM7)
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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.
![Quilt with various green squares bordering a scene of farmworkers pulling up hay against a tall grassy field.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2024-06/Maniac-escape.jpg?h=1b539c74&itok=S406CGvS)
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Jagdeep Raina: Ghosts In The Fields
Experience textiles, drawings, and ceramics of BC migrant workers in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Pass the Mic!
Experience a variety of art created by people who find themselves typically outside the mainstream art world.
Past exhibitions
![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.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2024-03/takao_tanabe_nootka_afternoon_1993_woodblock_print_on_paper-collection_of_the_vancouver_art_gallery-photo_vancouver_art_gallery.png?h=604beb6e&itok=oZbglw9N)
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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.
![A turquoise-coloured duck on a lake with large sun flowers, plants, and sun behind it.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2023-12/gwen_hunka_bird_in_bright_colours_2021_papel_amente.png?h=735bdc0a&itok=vMXEDgOC)
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Art by Surrey Elementary School Students
Biennial exhibit showcases the variety and depth of art education in Surrey School District.
![Two children face the left side of the photograph. One child stands behind the seated one to braid her long hair. They both wear bright pink, orange, pink printed clothing, against a white backdrop.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2023-12/baljit_singh_coming_home_2022_digital_photograph._in_collaboration_with_norblack_norwhite.png?h=7693c783&itok=43dCJNCN)
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un/tangling, un/covering, un/doing
un/tangling, un/covering, un/doing shares stories embedded in the rituals attached to hair, such as acts of resistance and sacred reverence.
![Acrylic painting of land masses in different colours with what appears to be a sun with rays of light shining across a blue background.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2023-07/taslim_samji_kampala_to_canada_2022_acrylic_on_canvas.png?h=735bdc0a&itok=Sq8fWXgx)
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Kampala to Canada
Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Ugandan-Asian Canadians' forced exile from Uganda through painting and photography.
![A close-up of a flower in neon purple lighting against a black background.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2023-07/alana_bartol_and_bryce_krynski_all_roses_sleep_inviolate_light_2022_ultraviolet_video_14_minutes_02_seconds.png?h=735bdc0a&itok=Z3go7SxP)
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all roses sleep (inviolate light)
Following the perspective of a solitary bee on a journey through the prairies in search of a wild rose, this immersive video by Alana Bartol and Bryce Krynski blends how bees and humans experience the land around us.
![Red and blue cotton fabric with geometric patterns create a tent-like shape.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2023-08/swapnaa_tamhane_mobile_palace_detail_2019-2021_natural_dyes_and_applique_on_cotton.png?h=735bdc0a&itok=_y1Mx5uZ)
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Swapnaa Tamhane: No Surface is Neutral
Swapnaa Tamhane’s work challenges the colonial hierarchical separation between art, craft, and design in India. Her artworks include sweeping textile installations where space is transformed by fabric, colour, and light, and works on handmade paper.
![An overhead photograph of a handspun wool blanket with square shapes of various dark, medium, and light blue colours line the left and right of the blanket design. In the centre are wavy zigzag lines against a white background.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2023-06/atheana_picha_youth_blanket_brown_and_blue_2022_hand_spun_wool._photo_courtesy_of_the_artist.png?h=735bdc0a&itok=cO4wieoc)
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Atheana Picha: Salish Weaving Residency
Nash’mene’ta’naht Atheana Picha brings her loom and weaving supplies to the Gallery for an eight-week summer residency.
![A man with face markings stares forward. A brown circle with a black border and blue shapes surrounds him.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2023-05/leslie_wells_chief_of_the_sockeye_2018_seal_skin_drum._photo_site_photography.png?h=77039d24&itok=MeQmeG-w)
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Invisible Fish
Primarily showcasing works from Salish artists early in their careers, this exhibition borrows its title from a Joy Harjo poem that speaks to the spirit of this group show—familial and community connections centered around waterways.
![A hole at the center of a sea shell made out of crochet and recycled material](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2023-05/diane_roy_umblicus_crochet_and_recycled_material.png?h=735bdc0a&itok=QFSBIMxB)
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Diane Roy: The Deep and the Shallows
Imaginative and innovative, Diane Roy’s textile art has developed a unique formal language over the past four decades.
![A still from a digital video shows an elderly person standing, facing the viewer. They wear a purple dastar, a coat, a vest, and a white button-up underneath. They are standing inside of a room with an open door. Inside the room is a wood panelled wall with various frames and paper posters. A round clock tells the time. Behind is a velvet-blue couch. This person is not wearing shoes, just socks. They stand on carpeted floor.](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2024-02/monica_cheema_paldi_a_place_like_this_2023_single-channel_digital_video_10_minutes_12_seconds.png?h=1e1e4732&itok=YOiKeqBm)
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ARTS 2023
Experience art in a variety of media through this annual juried exhibition organized with Arts Council of Surrey.