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 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.
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Installation image of Future Memoria at Surrey Art Gallery, summer 2024. Photo by NK Photo.
Featured 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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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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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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a'su'n – blanket
Make your mark on a blanket reflecting on the flora and fauna of Bear Creek Park!
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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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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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Inspired! Surrey Ceramic Showcase
View ceramics by the Fraser Valley Potters Guild and Semiahmoo Potters inspired by Don Hutchinson.
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Scott Billings: A Risky Jump
Watch an innovative video installation about sleep, dreams and risks inherent in the creative act.
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Zoopraxis: Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Kingdom
Explore Edweard Muybridge's sequential photographs of animals that were revolutionary for his time.
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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?
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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.