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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
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Out of Sight: Eadweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton
Discover the work of two photographers who were revolutionary in making time stand still.
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Fall Salon: Federation of Canadian Artists Fraser Valley Chapter
View an array of 2D artworks in this juried group art exhibition.
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Jay Bundy Johnson: Being still (life) shows us who we are
What does a thing sound like?
![A desk with red buttons in front of a wall with various electronic gadgets that make noise and movements when buttons are pressed](/sites/default/files/styles/1x1_400w/public/2021-08/JayBundyJohnsonBeingStillLife.jpg?h=a10befcf&itok=4Whhmkwr)
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Open Sound 2016
A series of audio art projects around the Surrey Arts Centre kicked off the first exhibition.
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Small Stages: Still Life from the Permanent Collection
Encounter a variety of still life artwork from paintings to 3D sculptures.
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Mimetic Workshop: Studio Still Lifes of Fiona Ackerman and Kelly Lycan
Where do artists make their work? Delve into two local artists' studios through 2D and 3D artworks.
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Memento Mori: A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Still Lifes
Discover contemporary interpretations of the still life genre by local artists.
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Arts 2016
See work by local artists at Arts Council of Surrey's juried exhibition.
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Away: The Artist as Traveller
Travel provides opportunities to see new things, meet new people, and learn about different cultures.
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Brush of Spring: Surrey ArtsWest Society
Put a spring into your step with this group show by local Surrey ArtsWest Society.