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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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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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Passionate Colours
See new work by members of the South Asian Artists Guild.
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Jim Adams: The Irretrievable Moment
Discover this retrospective exhibit by a Surrey artist covering 50 years of painting and sculpture.
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Scenocosme: Rencontres Imaginaires
Insert yourself into the frame in this series of interactive behavioural video works.
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Canada 150 Art by Surrey Students
Imagine what the future of Canada looks like through artwork by Surrey students.
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April Hickox: Variations Primaries
Explore colour-themed groupings of objects in these still life videos.
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Don Hutchinson: From Form to Fantasy
Enjoy ceramics that range from functional bowls and vases to decorative owls and other birds.
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Inspired! Surrey Ceramic Showcase
View ceramics by the Fraser Valley Potters Guild and Semiahmoo Potters inspired by Don Hutchinson.
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Scott Billings: A Risky Jump
Watch an innovative video installation about sleep, dreams and risks inherent in the creative act.
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Zoopraxis: Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Kingdom
Explore Edweard Muybridge's sequential photographs of animals that were revolutionary for his time.
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Out of Sight: Eadweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton
Discover the work of two photographers who were revolutionary in making time stand still.