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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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Mere Phantoms: Shadows Without Borders
Play with light and shadow in this interactive exhibition that explores human displacement, memories of home, and the refugee crisis.
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Charles Campbell: Black Breath Spectacle
Charles Campbell's audiovisual exhibition cultivates exchanges and solidarity within Black communities.
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Fraser Valley Chapter Presents: Fresh Paint!
See paintings from professional and emerging artists on a variety of themes.
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Zachery Cameron Longboy: Guardian of Sleep
Experience a dream-like layered video art installation.
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I see; I breathe; I am!
Curated by the Black Arts Centre, artists Nancy Ainomugisha and Olúwáṣọlá Kẹ́hìndé Olówó-Aké expand the conversation on how society interprets Blackness with storytelling, photography, and film.
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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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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 in Canada.
Past Exhibitions
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Garden in the Machine
Examine the complex relationship between computer technology and nature through digital art.
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ARTS 2019
Enjoy art by local artists in this annual juried show.
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Cindy Mochizuki: Autumn Strawberry Residency
An artist-in-residence, Mochizuki will gather local berry farming stories from Japanese Canadians.
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Sara Khan: Suraj Kinare
Immerse yourself in intriguing watercolours mixing fantasy and reality.
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The Built World Around Us: A Juried Photography Exhibit
See photographs that capture the built environment south of the Fraser River.
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Fischli and Weiss: The Way Things Go
Watch a video of a spectacular chain reaction of objects set up inside a warehouse.
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Omer Arbel: Particles for the Built World
See sculptural and home building experiments in fabric-formed concrete.
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Purposeful Play: Art by Surrey Secondary School Students
Local students shine in this exhibit of drawings and paintings.
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Colette Urban: Gambler
Try and solve a mountain of puzzle pieces in this interactive sculpture.
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Triangle Trade: Camille Turner, Jérôme Havre, and Cauleen Smith
A short film that examines specific relationships between black identity, land, and belonging.
