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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.
Spring and Summer Exhibitions
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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Josh Hite: A Vista
Spectacular ever-changing sequence of theatrical backdrops in this multimedia installation about performance and labour.
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Art by Surrey Elementary School Students
Biennial exhibit showcases the variety and depth of art education in Surrey School District.
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Takao Tanabe: Printmaker
Organized by the Kelowna Art Gallery with Guest Curator Ian M. Thom, this exhibition features over sixty prints by renowned artist Takao Tanabe from their collection, as well as Vancouver Art Gallery and Winnipeg Art Gallery’s collections.
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ARTS 2024
For over four decades, this annual open-juried exhibition, held in partnership with the Arts Council of Surrey, celebrates the best in local artmaking.
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Future Memoria
In Future Memoria, selections from Gallery’s permanent collection, along with loaned artworks from artists addressing the future in their own practice, embody both dystopian and utopian ideals and the concept of futurity itself; they convey the role art plays in the future’s many imaginings.
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Cheryl Pagurek: Winter Garden
Winter Garden is an interactive digital collage developed out of a still life photography series taken by media artist Cheryl Pagurek during the winter 2021 lockdown.
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Surrey Artswest Society 2024
This exhibition features an eclectic mix of some of the most recent artworks produced by Surrey Artswest Society members, including paintings, drawings, mixed media works, and more.
Past exhibitions
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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
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
See the creativity of local youth through photography, paintings, drawings, collage, and more.
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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
Explore this playful foray into narrative, perspective, performance, appearance and truth.
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Varvara and Mar: We Are the Clouds
See yourself in the clouds in this interactive outdoor artwork.
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Searching for Surrey
The Colour Collective presents their vision of many sites throughout Surrey and its surrounding region.
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Don Hutchinson and Ying-Yueh Chuang: Passages
Experience whimsical ceramic works from Don Hutchinson and Ying-Yueh Chuang.
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Where We Have Been
View works from the Gallery's Permanent Collection that explore place and identity.
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Art by Surrey Elementary School Students - 2020
Showcasing a range of artwork from students of Surrey School District, Grades 1-7