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Credit: Installation image of Future Memoria at Surrey Art Gallery, summer 2024. Photo by NK Photo.

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.

Various artworks in a gallery space with white and red walls: a sandwich board with the phrase "the end is near" on it, a sculpture of pennies on an apron, and paintings, one of which shows a storefront on fire.
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Installation image of Future Memoria at Surrey Art Gallery, summer 2024. Photo by NK Photo.

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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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

See recent artworks produced by Surrey Artswest Society members, including paintings, drawings, mixed media works, and more.

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A crouching woman attaches a piece of felt to a blanket hanging on the wall.
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a'su'n – blanket

Make your mark on a blanket reflecting on the flora and fauna of Bear Creek Park!

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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 about 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

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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Semi-transparent image of bacteria sample laid over hands, wood, and water
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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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Still from Manuel Piña's video work Naufragios
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Manuel Piña: Naufragios

The ocean becomes a kaleidoscope in this moving video work.

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Three artworks from left to right: a bird among flowers on crumpled brown paper; crayon drawing of sharks and fish; and a black ink pen drawing in a mandala shape
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Art by Surrey Elementary Students

Have a look at what today's youth are creating.

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Collage of turquoise and oranges featuring a figure on horseback charging ahead.
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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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A black and white image with multiple faces on it framed like a film reel.
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On Air

Works from the Gallery's permanent collection address the rise of mass media culture.

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Black and white photograph showing objects including a lamp, wallet, and camera on a wooden table.
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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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Installation view of I Spy a City at UrbanScreen
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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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Painted red and black circle inspired by Coast Salish design showing two faces. Photograph of artist Phyllis Atkins beside it.
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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.

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3 pink illustrations on gold background of South Asian women, from left to right: Laxmi Bai on a horse carrying a sword; Selvi driving a taxi; and Phoolan Devi, a bandit queen
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Sandeep Johal: What If?

Step into a world reimagined with resilient South Asian women.

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