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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.
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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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 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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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.
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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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Nep Sidhu: Shadows in the Major Seventh
See art that bridges textiles with music, architecture, social justice, and the divine feminine.
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Paulo Majano: I Was Here
Using augmented reality technology, look at photos that are not all they appear to be.
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Keith Rice-Jones: Monumental Sculptures
These life-sized sculptures animate the Surrey Arts Centre courtyard.
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Sonny Assu: 1UP
This bold digital artwork draws attention to the histories of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
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Art by Surrey Secondary School Students - 2016
See artwork by Surrey secondary school students in our lobby.
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Graeme Patterson: Secret Citadel
Secret Citadel tells a story of friendship through sculptural installations & stop-motion animation.
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Surrey Photography Club
Catch breathtaking photographs of landscapes and portraits in this winter exhibition.
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Salmon People
Immerse yourself in a salmon world in this video-sound installation.
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Open Sound 2015
A series of audio art projects around the Surrey Arts Centre kicked off the first exhibition.
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Thirteen (maquette)
Discover the model for an ambitious installation that shows an incredible piece of Gallery history.