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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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Kathy Slade: This is a chord. This is another.
Rock n' roll meets embroidery in artworks inspired by DIY culture.
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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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Arts 2018
Enjoy and support what local artists are making in this annual juried arts show!
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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.
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Praxis: Art from the Surrey Art Teachers Association
Enjoy paintings, photographs, and sculptures by local Surrey teachers!
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Ben Bogart: Watching and Dreaming
See what a machine sees when it goes to the movies!
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Flow: From the Movement of People to the Circulation of Information
See paintings, sculptures, and ceramics from our Permanent Collection that "flow" in different ways.
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Elizabeth Hollick: Body Politic
View larger-than-life paintings of the human body that dominate urban landscapes.
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Art by Surrey Elementary School Students - 2018
See the world through the eyes of a child this winter!