Surrey Art Gallery

06/17/2026

Are you passionate about art education and working with children? Do you enjoy working in a dynamic, collaborative environment? Surrey Art Gallery is seeking an Artist-Educator to lead art workshops in our School Programs this fall.

Apply by June 22.

🔗 https://www.allianceforarts.com/job-board/2026/6/10/visual-arts-program-instructor-gallery-artist-educator

Photo by Carla Alcántara Photography.

ID: A photo of Artist-educator Mariana Frochtengarten standing at a table, making a clay vessel while discussing clay building techniques with two school children in a school program at the Gallery. Mariana has mid-length curly brown hair and is wearing a blue apron, over a black long sleeved shirt, and is wearing glasses, a silver bracelet and blue dangling earrings.

06/15/2026

saga shop spotlight✨

Teresa Takeuchi is deeply inspired by food and the environments that she inhabits. At its core, her art is an expression of an ongoing need to reflect and understand herself. When she works with clay, she resists defining who she is or what the final piece should be. Instead, Takeuchi begins with a loose concept and allow the process to guide her. The work evolves organically shaped by curiosity, distraction, and discovery. Like any meaningful practice, it requires repetition, reflection, and constant redefinition.

Takeuchi states “throwing bowls on the wheel is especially grounding for me—there is a quiet rhythm and sense of calm in the repetition. Alongside wheel work, I also hand build and experiment with both prefab and handmade molds. My recent work incorporates hand-drawn and painted underglaze transfers, as well as silkscreen techniques, expanding the visual language of my ceramics.”

You can find mugs, garlic graters, and plates made by Takeuchi in the saga shop.

saga shop hours🛍️
Thursdays 3:30–7:30pm
Saturdays 12–4pm
Other select dates for Gallery and Theatre events

Images courtesy the artist.

ID1: several small round ceramic dishes and a few cup-shaped pieces arranged together. The dishes are in different colours: black, deep blue, bright green, mustard yellow, and beige. Many of the bowls have small holes near the rim and a textured circular pattern in the center that looks like a raised grating surface. Behind the dishes, there are a few taller cups or tumbler shapes in blue and speckled beige.

ID2: four small ceramic dishes with drawings on them are arranged in a square grid against a beige background. The top left dish has a yellow mushroom towards the bottom right of the dish with dark vertical lines along the right side. The top right dish has a purple onion bulb with long thin leaves in green with a patterned area made of small leaf shapes along the bottom right. The bottom left dish has a red mushroom with a rounded cap and white spots. To the right of it there are a few thin vertical Iines. The bottom left dish has a similar red mushroom with a spotted cap but with a shorter stem and a patterned area of lines and arch shapes in reddish lines along the left side of the dish.

06/11/2026

Join us for an enchanting evening of music, poetry, art, and community at our summer opening!

Saturday, July 11 | Seeds of Imagination Art Party 6-9pm 🪷

Keerat Kaur joins Associate Curator Suvi Bains for a discussion of her solo exhibition, followed by a live reading of her original poetry. Then experience a sitar performance underneath a banyan tree with Peyman Rouhandeh.

Get creative with hands-on language-based artmaking inspired by Kaur’s exhibition, celebrate "ARTS 2026" with the announcement of the People’s Choice Award, and experience “Across the Fire” by Mustaali Raj.

Come connect, create, and be inspired thought an evening of storytelling and sound.

Please RSVP to guarantee a seat at this free event.
https://purchase.surrey.ca/EventAvailability?EventId=24601

Community Partners:
DIVERSEcity
Indian Summer Festival

ID: Keerat standing on a stage holding a microphone and singing. She is wearing a light blue, structured outfit with oversized sleeves and decorative silver embellishments framing both sides of her head like a crown or ornate headpiece. Her long dark hair falls straight over her shoulders. Behind her is a large blue backdrop featuring a stylized golden sun with a human face and wavy sun rays extending outward. The sun occupies much of the upper portion of the image, creating a dramatic and artistic setting. The lower part of the background is gray, and part of the stage has a brass-coloured railing that runs across the foreground.

06/04/2026

In the Shadow of the Pavilions: Expo 86 and Contemporary Art exhibition closes this Sunday June 7th. Come see what the critics are calling “impressive” (Tom Zillich, Surrey Now-Leader), “honest” (Todd Maffin, From Far and Wide), “steller” (John Mackie, Vancouver Sun). A few more days left to re-experience BC’s Expo moment through art!

Multidisciplinary exhibition features archival works by 40 artists created in the Lower Mainland from 1984 to 1988

06/03/2026

This summer, the Gallery is pleased to announce “Keerat Kaur: If Gardens Could Dream.”

Join us on Saturday, July 11 to celebrate our summer opening.
Admission is free.

“If Gardens Could Dream” considers how movement shapes cultural life. For Kaur, migration extends beyond the crossing of borders; it encompasses the circulation of stories, agricultural practices, South Asian traditions, and ways of understanding the world. Her work traces how these forms of knowledge travel across geographies, adapt to new conditions, and remain connected to ancestral lineages.

Working across painting, sculpture, digital media, embroidery, poetry, and architectural forms, Kaur examines how cultural knowledge is carried, transformed, and sustained across generations within the South Asian diaspora.

From July 4-August 30.

Community Partners:
Indian Summer Festival
DIVERSEcity

ID: A circular figure artwork set against a deep ultramarine-blue background depicts a luminous blue female figure crouched at the centre. The figure turns her head over her shoulder directly at the viewer. Her feet are reminiscent of fins and her fingertips flow like vines that weave throughout the composition, curling, and looping around the figure’s limbs and raised hands. Her back and arms feature fish scales that are translucent. Among the vines are bright red anatomical hearts embellished with embroidered blue and silver details, as well as pink pomegranates that are both whole and split open to reveal clusters of darks seeds. Pink flowers bloom along with the vines with open petals. On top of the poster, the text reads in both Panjabi and English “If Gardens Could Dream,” and at the bottom of the painting also in Panjabi and English says “Keerat Kaur.” Also at the bottom is the text: July 4- August 30, free admission, surrey.ca/artgallery and community partner logos from Indian Summer Festival and DiVERSEcity Community Resource Society.

06/01/2026

This is the last week to view “In the Shadow of the Pavilions: Expo 86 and Contemporary Art”.

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Expo 86, the exhibition brings together original artworks and archival materials reflecting on the artistic and cultural legacy of Vancouver’s world’s fair. Featuring works from more than 35 artists across photography, painting, installation, performance, and video, the exhibition revisits a transformative moment in the region’s history through themes of communication, transportation, urban development, resource extraction, Indigenous self-determination, from the years of 1984 to 1988.

The exhibition will be on view until June 7. Admission is free.

Photos by Dennis Ha.

05/29/2026

One week left to experience the In the Shadow of the Pavilions exhibition. Be sure to give yourself time to view some of the rarely shown film and video from Expo 86 and the larger expo era

Through original artworks and archival materials, the exhibit examines some of the official art from the world's fair.

05/28/2026

Join the Surrey Art Gallery Association on Thursday, June 4 from 7−8:30pm for Open Mic featuring artists from the annual juried exhibition “ARTS 2026” in partnership with the Surrey Arts Council. Artists will be sharing reflections on their artworks and wider practices at this special open mic edition.

Works are displayed throughout Surrey Arts Centre, and visitors are invited to vote for the People’s Choice Award that will be announced at the Summer Opening on July 11🎉

saga shop hours🛍️
Thursdays 3:30–7:30pm
Saturdays 12–4pm
Other select dates for Gallery and Theatre events

ID 1: A photo of a gathering in a large indoor space. People are sitting on wooden chairs and stools around small tables, talking, and facing toward the middle of the room. One person in a white shirt and blue pants sits on a chair speaking into a microphone. The space has framed artwork on the walls.

05/22/2026

This month, we’re excited to spotlight saga shop artist Ray Ophoff✨

Ophoff is a self-taught oil painter whose vibrant landscapes and intimate garden-scapes are filled with bold colour and expressive brushwork. Working from photographs, Ophoff draws inspiration from growing up in the semi-wilderness of suburban North Surrey, where a deep connection to nature first took root.

For Ophoff, nature holds both chaos and structure. As he reflects “there are no random branches on trees.” Whether painting an expansive horizon on a small panel or enlarging a crocus beyond life-size, his work is an effort to better understand a small corner of the world. And perhaps, as he says, “everyone needs a couple of metres of Swiss chard on their walls.”

saga shop hours🛍️
Thursdays 3:30–7:30pm
Saturdays 12–4pm
Other select dates for Gallery and Theatre events

ID1: A painting of large, stylized flowers in shades of purple and white with thin dark lines defining each petal. At the centers of the purple flowers are bright orange stamens. Surrounding the purple flowers are yellow-gold flowers with smooth petals, creating a strong contrast against the purple flowers.

ID:2 A landscape painting with tall cliffs and a river. The painting shows an elongated view of steep, vertical rock formations in warm brown, orange, and yellow stretching across most of the image. Above the cliffs are thick, fluffy clouds in cream and white tones, with some gray shading, against a blue sky. A bright blue river runs horizontally along the cliffs, creating a strong contrast with the earthy colours of the rocks. On the right corner in small red handwritten signature of the artist’s name.

05/15/2026

Join the Gallery’s Curator of Exhibitions and Collections Jordan Strom for a tour of “In the Shadow of the Pavilions: Expo 86 and Contemporary Art” on Thursday May 28, 7-8:30.

Strom will speak to some of the official art from the world’s fair, along with unofficial art and programming that coincided with Expo 86. Following the tour, enjoy a special audio-visual performance of 1980s-inspired chiptunes by FreakyDNA aka Leonard Paul, a pioneering chip and video game music artist who has worked with and learned an extraordinary range of vintage sound chips.

Photo by Dennis Ha Photography

ID: A phot of a yellow exhibition wall. On the wall, a large horizontal video screen is mounted near the centre, displayed two people smiling at a fair. Next to the screen on the right is a framed black and white drawing and a blue and yellow rectangular poster each with a label to the right of them.