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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.
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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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.
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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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Surrey Art Teachers Association: Connect
Enjoy the creative talents of local art educators.
Past Exhibitions
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P.Mansaram: The Medium is the Medium is the Medium
Travel through five decades of P.Mansaram’s artistic practice that revels in repetition.
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Joy of the Photographic Print
See photographs using a variety of darkroom processes in this exhibit by The Darkroom Group.
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I Spy a City
Play "I spy" with sights from Surrey in these short and surprising animations.
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Sandeep Johal: What If?
Step into a world reimagined with resilient South Asian women.
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q̓ʷɑti̓cɑ: k̓ʷam̓k̓ʷəm̓ tə šxʷhəliʔ / Phyllis Atkins: Divine Connection
See life-and spirit-affirming artworks that draw from Coast Salish tradition and show the artist's connection to the world.
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Seven Stories
Gratitude, family, and friendship come to life in this community art exhibition developed by Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society (PICS).
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ARTS 2021
Enjoy local art in this popular juried art show organized by the Arts Council of Surrey.
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Cindy Mochizuki: Autumn Strawberry
Experience life on local Japanese Canadian farms in the twentieth century prior to WWII with hand-painted and digital animation.
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Henry Tsang: Hastings Park
With a thermal imaging camera, multimedia artist Henry Tsang makes Hastings Park's invisible history visible again concerning Japanese Canadians during WWII.
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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.
