Black and white image of two rusty, beat-up cars on either side of a large tree in a grassy field with a fence to the right and a large hill in the background.
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Credit: Tanner Sussi, Growing Old Together (detail), 2023, photograph.

ARTS 2025

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

Date & time

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Address

Surrey Art Gallery - 13750 88 Ave

Tickets & pricing

Free admission

For over four decades, the Arts Council of Surrey has organized ARTS in partnership with the Gallery. This annual open-juried art exhibition celebrates artmaking throughout Surrey and beyond. Prizes are awarded across five categories:

  1. Painting
  2. Drawing, printmaking, and mixed media on paper
  3. Sculptures and fibre art
  4. Photography
  5. Digital, performative, and new media

 

Entries appear in a wide range of themes and media, from captivating landscape paintings to intricate sculptures and weavings. The artworks are displayed throughout Surrey Arts Centre, and visitors are invited to vote for the People’s Choice Award at any time during their visit.

This year, the jury consisted of photography-based artist Brian Howell, artist and Kwantlen Polytechnic University Fine Arts faculty member Jason Wright, and Surrey Art Gallery Curator of Art and Education Initiatives Alanna Edwards.

Exhibiting artists will share reflections about their artworks and wider practices at an Artist Open Mic on June 5, part of Surrey Art Gallery Association’s free Thursday Artist Talk series.

The close of ARTS 2025 will be celebrated at the summer opening art party on July 5 where the prize winners will also be announced.

Black and white image of two rusty, beat-up cars on either side of a large tree in a grassy field with a fence to the right and a large hill in the background.

Tanner Sussi, Growing Old Together, 2023, photograph.

A wooden sculpture housing a nest with a robin's egg at the base, flanked by green ferns. A gold, sun-like shape fills the space above.

Lenka Suchanek, Divine Harmony: Offering to Mother Earth and Father Sun, 2023, mixed media on reclaimed cedar wood frame.

Watercolour and embroidery artwork of a small white and navy blue bird in flight against an olive tree.

Melissa Peacock, Olive Branch, 2025, watercolour and embroidery on paper.

Several trees standing in a swamp with foliage in the foreground and hills in the background. The painting looks slightly out of focus, a soft blur to the edges.

Jeff Wang, The New Swamp, 2025, acrylic on canvas.

A digital image created by a flatbed scanner of horizontal red, yellow, and green stripes against a black blackground. In the centre is black circle containing an egg-like shape resting in a groove.

Anna Polkovnichenko, Watchful Eye, 2023, scanograph.