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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.
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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Fraser Valley Chapter Presents: Fresh Paint!
See paintings from professional and emerging artists on a variety of themes.
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Zachery Cameron Longboy: Guardian of Sleep
Experience a dream-like layered video art installation.
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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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Poets with a Video Camera: Videopoetry 1980–2020
Experience surprising combinations of images and text in this group exhibit of videopoetry from Canada and other countries around the world.
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I see; I breathe; I am!
Artists Nancy Ainomugisha and Olúwáṣọlá Kẹ́hìndé Olówó-Aké expand the conversation on how society interprets Blackness.
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Henry Tsang: Tansy Point
Learn about the Anson Dart Treaties of 1851 in this interactive video installation.
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Concealed Cultures: Visualizing the Black Vernacular
Experience this multimedia group exhibit curated by members of the Black Arts Centre in Surrey.
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Surrey Art Teachers Association: Connect
Enjoy the creative talents of local art educators.
Past Exhibitions
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Charles Campbell: Black Breath Spectacle
Charles Campbell's audiovisual exhibition cultivates exchanges and solidarity within Black communities.
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Mere Phantoms: Shadows Without Borders
Play with light and shadow in this interactive exhibition that explores human displacement, memories of home, and the refugee crisis.
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ARTS 2022
See what local artists are creating in this annual juried exhibition.
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Rajesh Vora: Everyday Monuments
See photographs of water tanks and other rooftop sculptures found in India's Punjab region.
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Body as Border: Traces and Flows of Connection
Artificial intelligence, poetry, and biology combine in this immersive outdoor art project.
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Manuel Piña: Naufragios
The ocean becomes a kaleidoscope in this moving video work.
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Art by Surrey Elementary Students
Have a look at what today's youth are creating.
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P.Mansaram: The Medium is the Medium is the Medium
Travel through five decades of P.Mansaram’s artistic practice that revels in repetition.
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On Air
Works from the Gallery's permanent collection address the rise of mass media culture.
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Joy of the Photographic Print
See photographs using a variety of darkroom processes in this exhibit by The Darkroom Group.
