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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 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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Art by Surrey Elementary School Students
Biennial exhibit showcases the variety and depth of art education in Surrey School District.
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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 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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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.
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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.
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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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.