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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 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.

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.
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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 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.
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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 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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Quilt with various green squares bordering a scene of farmworkers pulling up hay against a tall grassy field.
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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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Painting of various heads and facial features placed on a red background. There is handwritten text peeking out from behind the red.
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Pass the Mic!

Experience a variety of art created by people who find themselves typically outside the mainstream art world.

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Past exhibitions

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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Mark Soo, Twilight on the Edge of Town, 2020, video still, dual-channel video installation, mixed media, sound
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Mark Soo: Twilight on the Edge of Town

Immerse yourself in this video installation where the recent past meets the speculative future.

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Yam Lau Hutong House
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Yam Lau: Hutong House

Look inside a traditional Chinese courtyard house in this video installation about home, friendship, and time.

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Art by Surrey Secondary School Students
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Art by Surrey Secondary School Students

See the creativity of local youth through photography, paintings, drawings,  collage, and more.

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Jaswant Guzder, Prayer spaces and portrait 1, 2016, ink, cloth on natural linen.
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Facing Time

Get up close to faces in paintings, photographs, textiles, and more. This exhibit invites you to consider the importance of faces in a time of virtual gatherings, selfies, and mask-wearing. Virtual tour now available! View here

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Carol Sawyer: Proscenium
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Carol Sawyer: Proscenium

Explore this playful foray into narrative, perspective, performance, appearance and truth.

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