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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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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.
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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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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!
