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 Exhibitions

  • A view of an inlet, where the ocean water is sparkling with pink and white light, mirroring a sky of peach tones, and land in dark with trees in shadow can be seen in the background.

    Takao Tanabe: Printmaker

    April 13–June 2, 2024

    Features over sixty prints by renowned artist Takao Tanabe, among Canada's most celebrated painters and printmakers.

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  • A photograph of a group of men on a street. They wear suits and light head coverings around their head. The sky is white and a dark green, blue colour. There is a green house on the left and an automobile parked on the street.

    ARTS 2024

    April 27July 14, 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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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.

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.

A photograph of a theatre stage that shows numerous backdrop structures, some green, some yellow, and some with flowers falling over the top. Some structures form a rectangular roof, while others are round portals.
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Josh Hite: A Vista

Spectacular ever-changing sequence of theatrical backdrops in this multimedia installation about performance and labour.

A turquoise-coloured duck on a lake with large sun flowers, plants, and sun behind it.
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Art by Surrey Elementary School Students

Biennial exhibit showcases the variety and depth of art education in Surrey School District. 

A view of an inlet, where the ocean water is sparkling with pink and white light, mirroring a sky of peach tones, and land in dark with trees in shadow can be seen in the background.
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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.

A photograph of a group of men on a street. They wear suits and light head coverings around their head. The sky is white and a dark green, blue colour. There is a green house on the left and an automobile parked on the street.
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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.

An inforgraphic in the shape of a circle that appears to resemble a blue human eye. The circle is made up of long lines of blue.
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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.

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

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.

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

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.

Past exhibitions

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Walter Dexter: Recent Ceramics

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Circle Craft Co-operative Quilt Show (2nd Annual)

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Joy Jinkerson: Paintings

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Lance Olsen: Works on Paper

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Greg Evans: Works

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BC Photographers

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James Warren Felter

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International Women's Year: A Selection from the Simon Fraser Collection, Simon Fraser University

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Jim Cummins: Prints and Drawings

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Selected Works from BC Provincial Collection