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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 and Summer 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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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.
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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.
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!