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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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Nicoletta Baumeister: In the Realm of Perception
Take a look at the world of human perception through paintings by a local Surrey artist.
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Impressions: Crescent Beach Photography Club 2018 - 2019
Moving light and sensory experience combine in this evocative exhibit by local artists.
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Jim Bizzocchi: Ambient Landscapes
Contemplate the majesty of nature across several screens in this evocative video work.
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Open Sound 2018
Experience multimedia art that connects with the land and art generated by machines.
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Kathy Slade: This is a chord. This is another.
Rock n' roll meets embroidery in artworks inspired by DIY culture.
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Connecting Threads
Explore contemporary textile artworks this fall!
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Maggie Orth: Moving Towards Stillness
Textiles meet technology in these interactive sculptures that change colour!
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The Art of Warmth: Peace Arch Weavers and Spinners Guild
Enjoy the variety of works that Surrey’s talented artists and artisans can make with fibre!
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Canada, eh! Fraser Valley Quilters' Guild
Feast your eyes on traditional and contemporary quilts with Canadian themes.
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Land Songs, Water Songs / Chants de terre, Chants d'eau
Experience a multimedia artwork centered around drums & intercultural connections to land and water.
