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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.
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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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Masi Medicine: Joyful Nourishment
Alyssa Amarshi, Franz Seachel, and Anjalica Solomon use poetry and dance to explore identity, nourishment through play, and centring joy.
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ARTS 2023
Experience art in a variety of media through this annual juried exhibition organized with Arts Council of Surrey.
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Invisible Fish
Primarily showcasing works from Salish artists early in their careers, this exhibition borrows its title from a Joy Harjo poem that speaks to the spirit of this group show—familial and community connections centered around waterways.
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Diane Roy: The Deep and the Shallows
Imaginative and innovative, Diane Roy’s textile art has developed a unique formal language over the past four decades.
Past Exhibitions
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Charles Campbell: An Ocean to Livity
Experience sculptural and audio installations that connect the Black diaspora's past and future through breath.
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Cindy Mochizuki: Autumn Strawberry (Dance Film)
Experience this video project that shows performers responding to Mochizuki's previous exhibition of the same name that animated the history of berry farming prior to WWII by Japanese settler families across the Fraser Valley.
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Art by Surrey Secondary Students: Connected
This biennial exhibit showcases the variety and depth of art education and young artists in Surrey School District.
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Keerat Kaur: Panjabi Garden
Experience poetry, digital illustration, painting, and marble inlay that depict motifs from the natural world to celebrate the Panjabi language and Gurmukhi script.
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Through the Lattice
This group exhibit of multimedia artworks speaks to the spaces we inhabit, both physically and symbolically.
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Surrey Art Teachers Association: Connect
Enjoy the creative talents of local art educators.
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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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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.