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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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Don Li-Leger: Counting the Steps of the Sun
View late works of painting and video from Surrey Civic Treasure Don Li-Leger.
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Susan Point: Spindle Whorl
Featuring over three decades of printmaking by Musqueam artist Susan Point.
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How Green is Your Muse?
The Filipino Music and Art Foundation present an exhibition of nature-themed artwork.
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Faisal Anwar: CharBagh
Enjoy this outdoor projection art that uses social media to generate beautiful gardens.
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Garden in the Machine
Examine the complex relationship between computer technology and nature through digital art.
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Sara Khan: Suraj Kinare
Immerse yourself in intriguing watercolours mixing fantasy and reality.
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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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ARTS 2019
Enjoy art by local artists in this annual juried show.
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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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Omer Arbel: Particles for the Built World
See sculptural and home building experiments in fabric-formed concrete.
