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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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Project Lovechild: Alex McLeod and Brendan Tang
Ceramic vessel meets digital technology in this collaborative installation.
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Ornamentalism: Clint Neufeld and Dirk Staschke
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Beyond the Vessel’s Edge: Ceramics from the Permanent Collection
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Intersections: Full Circle Art Collective
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Taking Time
Ordinary, everyday movements turn cinematic in four time-based artworks.
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Open Sound 2012
The hidden, invisible, and voiceless are given expression in these artworks.
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Echoes of the Artist: Works from the Permanent Collection
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Explore the nature of identity in the 21st century with two video installations.