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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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Sandeep Johal: What If?
Step into a world reimagined with resilient South Asian women.
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Seven Stories
Gratitude, family, and friendship come to life in this community art exhibition developed by Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society (PICS).
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ARTS 2021
Enjoy local art in this popular juried art show organized by the Arts Council of Surrey.
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Henry Tsang: Hastings Park
With a thermal imaging camera, multimedia artist Henry Tsang makes Hastings Park's invisible history visible again concerning Japanese Canadians during WWII.
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Cindy Mochizuki: Autumn Strawberry
Experience life on local Japanese Canadian farms in the twentieth century prior to WWII with hand-painted and digital animation.
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Delineations: Marilyn Dyer and Gailan Ngan
See bright paintings and sculptures that explore the tension between line and form.
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Mark Soo: Twilight on the Edge of Town
Immerse yourself in this video installation where the recent past meets the speculative future.
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Yam Lau: Hutong House
Look inside a traditional Chinese courtyard house in this video installation about home, friendship, and time.
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Art by Surrey Secondary School Students
See the creativity of local youth through photography, paintings, drawings, collage, and more.
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Facing Time
Get up close to faces in paintings, photographs, textiles, and more. This exhibit invites you to consider the importance of faces in a time of virtual gatherings, selfies, and mask-wearing. Virtual tour now available! View here