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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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Carol Sawyer: Proscenium
Explore this playful foray into narrative, perspective, performance, appearance and truth.
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Varvara and Mar: We Are the Clouds
See yourself in the clouds in this interactive outdoor artwork.
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Searching for Surrey
The Colour Collective presents their vision of many sites throughout Surrey and its surrounding region.
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Don Hutchinson and Ying-Yueh Chuang: Passages
Experience whimsical ceramic works from Don Hutchinson and Ying-Yueh Chuang.
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Where We Have Been
View works from the Gallery's Permanent Collection that explore place and identity.
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Art by Surrey Elementary School Students - 2020
Showcasing a range of artwork from students of Surrey School District, Grades 1-7
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Don Li-Leger: Counting the Steps of the Sun
View late works of painting and video from Surrey Civic Treasure Don Li-Leger.
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Susan Point: Spindle Whorl
Featuring over three decades of printmaking by Musqueam artist Susan Point.
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How Green is Your Muse?
The Filipino Music and Art Foundation present an exhibition of nature-themed artwork.
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Faisal Anwar: CharBagh
Enjoy this outdoor projection art that uses social media to generate beautiful gardens.