Surrey Art Gallery 50th Anniversary Art Parties
byTo celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Surrey Art Gallery is hosting a series of art parties to showcase their winter exhibits. The first of which is the Forming Futures Art Party on January 25th featuring the work of Rajni Perera.
Surrey Art Gallery 50th Anniversary
- Date: January 25, 2025 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm
- Location: Surrey Art Gallery (13750 88 Ave, Surrey)
- Tickets: Free!
Opening this night is Rajni Perera: Futures. Experimenting with mediums as varied as painting, sculpture, and photography, Toronto-based artist Rajni Perera expresses her vision of imagined futures in which mutated subjects adapt to exist in dystopian realms through strength and resilience.
Perera draws deeply on the artistic traditions of Sri Lanka, her childhood home. Indian miniature painting, medieval armour, South Asian textiles, and science fiction also factor into her body of work that spans feminist and diasporic narratives while contemplating survival in an environmentally degraded future.
Exhibits on View
The winter opening and art party on January 25th will also celebrate Cheryl Pagurek: Winter Garden—an interactive digital collage developed out of a still life photography series.; Pass the Mic!—a range of artworks curated by the Semiahmoo Arts Society; and Nicolas Sassoon: Liquid Landscapes—a Surrey-inspired series of animations returning on the new UrbanScreen venue at Surrey Civic Plaza.
Cheryl Pagurek: Winter Garden: Interact with this digital collage developed out of a still life photography series taken during the winter 2021 lockdown.
Pass the Mic!: Experience a variety of art created by people who find themselves typically outside the mainstream art world.
Nicolas Sassoon: Liquid Landscapes: UrbanScreen returns with Nicolas Sassoon’s hypnotic pixel animations on Surrey City Centre Library in Surrey Civic Plaza.
The evening includes artmaking with Claire Cilliers and Gallery art educators, poetry with Heidi Greco, a conversation between guest curator Sarah Milroy and Gallery Curatorial Assistant Zoe Yang, sound installation with Ruby Singh, and much more!
More events coming up this season at the Surrey Art Gallery include a Thursday night artist talk series in February, and the Art & Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and Family Art Party in March.
We visited the gallery ten years ago for its 40th anniversary, where at the time there had been over 750 exhibitions and 10,000 artists have been featured throughout its history.
About the Surrey Art Gallery
Founded in 1975, the Surrey Art Gallery is the second largest public art museum in the Metro Vancouver region. Internationally recognized for its award-winning programs, exhibitions change quarterly and admission is always free.
The municipal gallery shows all forms of contemporary art by local, national, and international artists, including digital and audio art. Learn more about art at an engaging artist talk or tour, participate in a symposium, or make art by yourself or with family and friends at the Gallery. They offer demonstrations, workshops, and school programs with artists, educators, and other specialists.
