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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.

Installation view of Gailan Nygan's Double Hearing at Surrey Art Gallery

    

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

  • 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 27–July 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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.
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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Past exhibitions

Two children face the left side of the photograph. One child stands behind the seated one to braid her long hair. They both wear bright pink, orange, pink printed clothing, against a white backdrop.
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un/tangling, un/covering, un/doing

un/tangling, un/covering, un/doing shares stories embedded in the rituals attached to hair, such as acts of resistance and sacred reverence. 

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Acrylic painting of land masses in different colours with what appears to be a sun with rays of light shining across a blue background.
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Kampala to Canada

Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Ugandan-Asian Canadians' forced exile from Uganda through painting and photography.

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A close-up of a flower in neon purple lighting against a black background.
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all roses sleep (inviolate light)

Following the perspective of a solitary bee on a journey through the prairies in search of a wild rose, this immersive video by Alana Bartol and Bryce Krynski blends how bees and humans experience the land around us.

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Red and blue cotton fabric with geometric patterns create a tent-like shape.
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Swapnaa Tamhane: No Surface is Neutral

Swapnaa Tamhane’s work challenges the colonial hierarchical separation between art, craft, and design in India. Her artworks include sweeping textile installations where space is transformed by fabric, colour, and light, and works on handmade paper.

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An overhead photograph of a handspun wool blanket with square shapes of various dark, medium, and light blue colours line the left and right of the blanket design. In the centre are wavy zigzag lines against a white background.
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Atheana Picha: Salish Weaving Residency

Nash’mene’ta’naht Atheana Picha brings her loom and weaving supplies to the Gallery for an eight-week summer residency.

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A man with face markings stares forward. A brown circle with a black border and blue shapes surrounds him.
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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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A hole at the center of a sea shell made out of crochet and recycled material
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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.

 

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A still from a digital video shows an elderly person standing, facing the viewer. They wear a purple dastar, a coat, a vest, and a white button-up underneath. They are standing inside of a room with an open door. Inside the room is a wood panelled wall with various frames and paper posters. A round clock tells the time. Behind is a velvet-blue couch. This person is not wearing shoes, just socks. They stand on carpeted floor.
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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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Two green walls with text and photographs frame a space with two yogibos. A film plays on the wall in between the two greens where a woman sitting cross-legged on grass in nature is shown. She has her elbows bent overhead, one hand cups her jaw, the other hand is behind her back.
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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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Wood and metal sculpture of a forked tree on an orange square base by Charles Campbell in a purple gallery space, with gallery visitors nearby
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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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