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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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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 the 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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Fall Salon: Federation of Canadian Artists Fraser Valley Chapter
View an array of 2D artworks in this juried group art exhibition.
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Jay Bundy Johnson: Being still (life) shows us who we are
What does a thing sound like?
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Open Sound 2016
A series of audio art projects around the Surrey Arts Centre kicked off the first exhibition.
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Small Stages: Still Life from the Permanent Collection
Encounter a variety of still life artwork from paintings to 3D sculptures.
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Mimetic Workshop: Studio Still Lifes of Fiona Ackerman and Kelly Lycan
Where do artists make their work? Delve into two local artists' studios through 2D and 3D artworks.
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Memento Mori: A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Still Lifes
Discover contemporary interpretations of the still life genre by local artists.
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Arts 2016
See work by local artists at Arts Council of Surrey's juried exhibition.
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Away: The Artist as Traveller
Travel provides opportunities to see new things, meet new people, and learn about different cultures.
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Brush of Spring: Surrey ArtsWest Society
Put a spring into your step with this group show by local Surrey ArtsWest Society.
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Nep Sidhu: Shadows in the Major Seventh
See art that bridges textiles with music, architecture, social justice, and the divine feminine.