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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.

Installation view of Gailan Nygan's Double Hearing at Surrey Art Gallery

    

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.

Summer exhibitions

  • An inforgraphic in the shape of a circle that appears to resemble a blue human eye. The circle is made up of long lines of blue.

    Future Memoria

    June 22–August 25, 2024

    Selections from the 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. 

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  • A group of white flowers clustered in a curving line. Towards the left bottom hand corner of the image are blue and green gradients of colour, while the top right corner of the image is a buttercup yellow with some flecks of darker colours. The colours are not even but appear to be smeared on in some areas, while others have white beneath.

    Surrey Artswest Society 2024

    July 20–October 13, 2024

    Features an eclectic mix of some of the most recent artworks producted by Surrey Artswest Society members, including paintings, drawings, mixed media works, and more. 

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Current & upcoming exhibitions

Entrance to Surrey Art Gallery and Surrey Arts Centre showing a colourful vinyl window mural.
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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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Colourful mural by Sandeep Johal on Surrey Arts Centre classroom windows, with 3 people nearby.
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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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An inforgraphic in the shape of a circle that appears to resemble a blue human eye. The circle is made up of long lines of blue.
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Future Memoria

In Future Memoria, selections from the 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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A person with their arms out-wide is in front of an interactive exhibit. Plant shapes of green, red, yellow, blue and purple colours can be seen against a pale blue screen that suggest snow and the outdoors.
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Cheryl Pagurek: Winter Garden

Interact with this digital collage developed out of a still life photography series taken during the winter 2021 lockdown.

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A group of white flowers clustered in a curving line. Towards the left bottom hand corner of the image are blue and green gradients of colour, while the top right corner of the image is a buttercup yellow with some flecks of darker colours. The colours are not even but appear to be smeared on in some areas, while others have white beneath.
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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.

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Quilt with various green squares bordering a scene of farmworkers pulling up hay against a tall grassy field.
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Jagdeep Raina: Ghosts In The Fields

Experience textiles, drawings, and ceramics of BC migrant workers in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Painting of various heads and facial features placed on a red background. There is handwritten text peeking out from behind the red.
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Pass the Mic!

Experience a variety of art created by people who find themselves typically outside the mainstream art world.

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Past exhibitions

A photograph of grassy land meeting the Pacific Ocean with mountains in the distance.
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Henry Tsang: Tansy Point

Learn about the Anson Dart Treaties of 1851 in this interactive video installation.

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A black and white photograph of the back of a Black man without a shirt, leaning back on his arms and head tilted to the right.
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Concealed Cultures: Visualizing the Black Vernacular

Experience this multimedia group exhibit curated by members of the Black Arts Centre in Surrey.

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Several flamingos stand in water in a wooden building with white lamps hanging from the rafters.
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Poets with a Video Camera: Videopoetry 1980–2020

Experience surprising combinations of images and text in this group exhibit of videopoetry from Canada and other countries around the world.

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Running pack of caribou moving to the right
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Zachery Cameron Longboy: Guardian of Sleep

Experience a dream-like layered video art installation.

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On left, colourful summery painting of a dirt laneway with houses and trees on the side; on right, a watercolour painting of a cluster of zebras.
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Fraser Valley Chapter Presents: Fresh Paint!

See paintings from professional and emerging artists on a variety of themes.

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An interactive puppet show is set up outside with images projected on a tent and a child playing in the middle.
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Mere Phantoms: Shadows Without Borders

Play with light and shadow in this interactive exhibition that explores human displacement, memories of home, and the refugee crisis.

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A colourful spectograph stretches across three walls of a rectangular room with a black couch in the middle.
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Charles Campbell: Black Breath Spectacle

Charles Campbell's audiovisual exhibition cultivates exchanges and solidarity within Black communities.

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Painting of arbutus trees, moody photograph of mooring poles, painting of SkyTrain commuter
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ARTS 2022

See what local artists are creating in this annual juried exhibition.

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Person inserts handwritten letter into water tank in a water-inspired room at an art gallery.
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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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Photograph of houses in India's Punjab with decorative sculptures on the roofs.
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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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