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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.
Fall 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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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.
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Kampala to Canada
Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Ugandan-Asian Canadians' forced exile from Uganda through painting and photography.
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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.
Past Exhibitions
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Manjot Kaur: The Pool of Memories
Step into an audiovisual immersive water tank inspired by exhibiting artist Rajesh Vora's photographs of sculptural water tanks in Everyday Monuments.
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Rajesh Vora: Everyday Monuments
See photographs of water tanks and other rooftop sculptures found in India's Punjab region.
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Body as Border: Traces and Flows of Connection
Artificial intelligence, poetry, and biology combine in this immersive outdoor art project.
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Manuel Piña: Naufragios
The ocean becomes a kaleidoscope in this moving video work.
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Art by Surrey Elementary Students
Have a look at what today's youth are creating.
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On Air
Works from the Gallery's permanent collection address the rise of mass media culture.
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P.Mansaram: The Medium is the Medium is the Medium
Travel through five decades of P.Mansaram’s artistic practice that revels in repetition.
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Joy of the Photographic Print
See photographs using a variety of darkroom processes in this exhibit by The Darkroom Group.
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I Spy a City
Play "I spy" with sights from Surrey in these short and surprising animations.
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q̓ʷɑti̓cɑ: k̓ʷam̓k̓ʷəm̓ tə šxʷhəliʔ / Phyllis Atkins: Divine Connection
See life-and spirit-affirming artworks that draw from Coast Salish tradition and show the artist's connection to the world.