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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 12,000 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.

Various artworks in a gallery space with white and red walls: a sandwich board with the phrase "the end is near" on it, a sculpture of pennies on an apron, and paintings, one of which shows a storefront on fire.

    

Installation image of Future Memoria at Surrey Art Gallery, summer 2024. Photo by NK Photo.

Current & upcoming exhibitions

Entrance to Surrey Art Gallery and Surrey Arts Centre showing a colourful vinyl window mural.
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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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Colourful mural by Sandeep Johal on Surrey Arts Centre classroom windows, with 3 people nearby.
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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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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.
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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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A crouching woman attaches a piece of felt to a blanket hanging on the wall.
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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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A ceramic of a dark green hippopotamus morphing into a dragonfruit.
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Art by Surrey Secondary Students

This biennial exhibit showcases the variety and depth of art education and young artists in Surrey School District.

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Varvara and Mar: We Are The Clouds
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Varvara & Mar: We Are the Clouds

Join a community of clouds in this interactive art installation.

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An installation of numerous maple seeds connected through threads and suspended on a white ceiling.
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A Tangled Thicket

Experience paintings and handcrafted installations by four Surrey artists that explore the relationship between nature and the human mind. 

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Visitors to Surrey Arts Centre line the lobby space, looking at artworks on the walls.
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ARTS 2025

Experience a range of artworks from local artists in this annual juried exhibition.

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A projected artwork of blues and whites is shown on the exterior of Surrey Central Library at nighttime, which is lit up inside. A tall tower stands behind it.
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Annie Briard: Refracted Fields

This new video projection at UrbanScreen in Surrey City Plaza reinterprets British Columbia topographies and how we perceive them.

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Past exhibitions

A black and white image with multiple faces on it framed like a film reel.
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On Air

Works from the Gallery's permanent collection address the rise of mass media culture.

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Black and white photograph showing objects including a lamp, wallet, and camera on a wooden table.
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Joy of the Photographic Print

See photographs using a variety of darkroom processes in this exhibit by The Darkroom Group.

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Installation view of I Spy a City at UrbanScreen
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I Spy a City

Play "I spy" with sights from Surrey in these short and surprising animations.

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Painted red and black circle inspired by Coast Salish design showing two faces. Photograph of artist Phyllis Atkins beside it.
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q̓ʷɑti̓cɑ: k̓ʷam̓k̓ʷəm̓ tə šxʷhəliʔ / Phyllis Atkins: Divine Connection

See life-and spirit-affirming artworks that draw from Coast Salish tradition and show the artist's connection to the world.

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3 pink illustrations on gold background of South Asian women, from left to right: Laxmi Bai on a horse carrying a sword; Selvi driving a taxi; and Phoolan Devi, a bandit queen
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Sandeep Johal: What If?

Step into a world reimagined with resilient South Asian women.

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Image of PICS cultural exchange project participant Safaa embroidering
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Seven Stories

Gratitude, family, and friendship come to life in this community art exhibition developed by Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society (PICS).

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Photograph of a single boot on a red hill with a building behind.
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ARTS 2021

Enjoy local art in this popular juried art show organized by the Arts Council of Surrey.

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Cindy Mochizuki, Autumn Strawberry, 2021, animation still. Photo courtesy of artist.
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Cindy Mochizuki: Autumn Strawberry

Experience life on local Japanese Canadian farms in the twentieth century prior to WWII with hand-painted and digital animation.

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Henry Tsang, Hastings Park: Building A - Livestock Building North, View Looking West, 2021, pigment ink on metallic paper, 122 cm x 91 cm. Photo by artist.
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Henry Tsang: Hastings Park

With a thermal imaging camera, multimedia artist Henry Tsang makes Hastings Park's invisible history visible again concerning Japanese Canadians during WWII.

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Installation view of Delineations
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Delineations: Marilyn Dyer and Gailan Ngan

See bright paintings and sculptures that explore the tension between line and form.

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