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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

Two green walls with text and photographs frame a space with two yogibos. A film plays on the wall in between the two greens where a woman sitting cross-legged on grass in nature is shown. She has her elbows bent overhead, one hand cups her jaw, the other hand is behind her back.
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Masi Medicine: Joyful Nourishment

Alyssa Amarshi, Franz Seachel, and Anjalica Solomon use poetry and dance to explore identity, nourishment through play, and centring joy.

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Wood and metal sculpture of a forked tree on an orange square base by Charles Campbell in a purple gallery space, with gallery visitors nearby
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Charles Campbell: An Ocean to Livity

Experience sculptural and audio installations that connect the Black diaspora's past and future through breath.

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Two people stand on stumps with legs slightly apart and arms stretched wide against Gallery backdrop.
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Cindy Mochizuki: Autumn Strawberry (Dance Film)

Experience this video project that shows performers responding to Mochizuki's previous exhibition of the same name that animated the history of berry farming prior to WWII by Japanese settler families across the Fraser Valley.

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Right: Painting of a person holding paper cut-outs of a human figure. Left: A ceramic sculpture of a Japanese dwelling.
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Art by Surrey Secondary Students: Connected

This biennial exhibit showcases the variety and depth of art education and young artists in Surrey School District.

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Detail view of Robert Young's painting 'Portal,' featuring rooftops of houses, trees, and stained glass window
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Through the Lattice

This group exhibit of multimedia artworks speaks to the spaces we inhabit, both physically and symbolically.

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Digital illustration showing lush greenery and wild animals with the words "Welcome to the Panjabi Garden" in English and Gurmukhi.
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Keerat Kaur: Panjabi Garden

Experience poetry, digital illustration, painting, and marble inlay that depict motifs from the natural world to celebrate the Panjabi language and Gurmukhi script.

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Mixed media artwork of rocks splashed by waves, a cellphone case lying on rocks with a cityscape image on it
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Surrey Art Teachers Association: Connect

Enjoy the creative talents of local art educators.

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Close-up of the torso, side profile, of a Black woman dressed in a colourful outfit containing ribbons
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I see; I breathe; I am!

Artists Nancy Ainomugisha and Olúwáṣọlá Kẹ́hìndé Olówó-Aké expand the conversation on how society interprets Blackness.

 

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A photograph of grassy land meeting the Pacific Ocean with mountains in the distance.
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Henry Tsang: Tansy Point

Learn about the Anson Dart Treaties of 1851 in this interactive video installation.

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A black and white photograph of the back of a Black man without a shirt, leaning back on his arms and head tilted to the right.
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Concealed Cultures: Visualizing the Black Vernacular

Experience this multimedia group exhibit curated by members of the Black Arts Centre in Surrey.

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