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

  • A view of an inlet, where the ocean water is sparkling with pink and white light, mirroring a sky of peach tones, and land in dark with trees in shadow can be seen in the background.

    Takao Tanabe: Printmaker

    April 13–June 2, 2024

    Features over sixty prints by renowned artist Takao Tanabe, among Canada's most celebrated painters and printmakers.

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  • A photograph of a group of men on a street. They wear suits and light head coverings around their head. The sky is white and a dark green, blue colour. There is a green house on the left and an automobile parked on the street.

    ARTS 2024

    April 27July 14, 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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Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

The are no current exhibitions.

Past exhibitions

Two children face the left side of the photograph. One child stands behind the seated one to braid her long hair. They both wear bright pink, orange, pink printed clothing, against a white backdrop.
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un/tangling, un/covering, un/doing

un/tangling, un/covering, un/doing shares stories embedded in the rituals attached to hair, such as acts of resistance and sacred reverence. 

Acrylic painting of land masses in different colours with what appears to be a sun with rays of light shining across a blue background.
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Kampala to Canada

Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Ugandan-Asian Canadians' forced exile from Uganda through painting and photography.

A close-up of a flower in neon purple lighting against a black background.
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all roses sleep (inviolate light)

Following the perspective of a solitary bee on a journey through the prairies in search of a wild rose, this immersive video by Alana Bartol and Bryce Krynski blends how bees and humans experience the land around us.

Red and blue cotton fabric with geometric patterns create a tent-like shape.
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Swapnaa Tamhane: No Surface is Neutral

Swapnaa Tamhane’s work challenges the colonial hierarchical separation between art, craft, and design in India. Her artworks include sweeping textile installations where space is transformed by fabric, colour, and light, and works on handmade paper.

An overhead photograph of a handspun wool blanket with square shapes of various dark, medium, and light blue colours line the left and right of the blanket design. In the centre are wavy zigzag lines against a white background.
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Atheana Picha: Salish Weaving Residency

Nash’mene’ta’naht Atheana Picha brings her loom and weaving supplies to the Gallery for an eight-week summer residency.

A man with face markings stares forward. A brown circle with a black border and blue shapes surrounds him.
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Invisible Fish

Primarily showcasing works from Salish artists early in their careers, this exhibition borrows its title from a Joy Harjo poem that speaks to the spirit of this group show—familial and community connections centered around waterways.

A hole at the center of a sea shell made out of crochet and recycled material
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Diane Roy: The Deep and the Shallows

Imaginative and innovative, Diane Roy’s textile art has developed a unique formal language over the past four decades.

 

 A still from a digital video shows an elderly person standing, facing the viewer. They wear a purple dastar, a coat, a vest, and a white button-up underneath. They are standing inside of a room with an open door. Inside the room is a wood panelled wall with various frames and paper posters. A round clock tells the time. Behind is a velvet-blue couch. This person is not wearing shoes, just socks. They stand on carpeted floor.
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ARTS 2023

Experience art in a variety of media through this annual juried exhibition organized with Arts Council of Surrey.

Two green walls with text and photographs frame a space with two yogibos. A film plays on the wall in between the two greens where a woman sitting cross-legged on grass in nature is shown. She has her elbows bent overhead, one hand cups her jaw, the other hand is behind her back.
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Masi Medicine: Joyful Nourishment

Alyssa Amarshi, Franz Seachel, and Anjalica Solomon use poetry and dance to explore identity, nourishment through play, and centring joy.

Wood and metal sculpture of a forked tree on an orange square base by Charles Campbell in a purple gallery space, with gallery visitors nearby
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Charles Campbell: An Ocean to Livity

Experience sculptural and audio installations that connect the Black diaspora's past and future through breath.