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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 12,000 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.

    

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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Waves of red, orange, and pale blue are projected on the facade of Surrey City Centre Library whose windows are lit up. A skyscraper stands in the distance behind.
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Nicolas Sassoon: Liquid Landscapes

UrbanScreen returns with Nicolas Sassoon's hypnotic pixel animations.

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An installation of numerous maple seeds connected through threads and suspended on a white ceiling.
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A Tangled Thicket

Experience paintings and handcrafted installations by four Surrey artists that explore the relationship between nature and the human mind. 

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Black and white image of two rusty, beat-up cars on either side of a large tree in a grassy field with a fence to the right and a large hill in the background.
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ARTS 2025

Experience a range of artworks from local artists in this annual juried exhibition.

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A projected artwork of blues and whites is shown on the exterior of Surrey Central Library at nighttime, which is lit up inside. A tall tower stands behind it.
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Annie Briard: Refracted Fields

This new video projection at UrbanScreen in Surrey City Plaza reinterprets British Columbia topographies and how we perceive them.

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Six abstract sculptures of people stand on a table.
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10 and 10: Story of Stories

This 50th anniversary exhibition pairs permanent collection artworks acquired from the first ten years of collecting (1975–1985) and the last ten years (2014–2024) through themes of landscape, architecture, portraiture, and movement. 

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Forest setting with a number of fir trees in shadow on the side of a mountain, with light showing through the branches.
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Experiments in Solitude

Experience analogue photography, videography, cyanotypes, and more from Brittney Appleby and MV Williams.

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Varvara and Mar: We Are The Clouds
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Varvara & Mar: We Are the Clouds

Join a community of clouds in this interactive art installation.

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Past exhibitions

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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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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