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

  • Acrylic painting of land masses in different colours with what appears to be a sun with rays of light shining across a blue background.

    Kampala to Canada

    August 26, 2023January 28, 2024

    Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Ugandan-Asian Canadians' forced exile from Uganda through painting and photography.

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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.

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.

A close-up of a flower in neon purple lighting against a black background.
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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.

Acrylic painting of land masses in different colours with what appears to be a sun with rays of light shining across a blue background.
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Kampala to Canada

Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Ugandan-Asian Canadians' forced exile from Uganda through painting and photography.

Red and blue cotton fabric with geometric patterns create a tent-like shape.
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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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Richard Obergfell: Paintings

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Elly Arnold: Batiks

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Gloria Smith: First Solo Show