Keerat Kaur's If Gardens Could Dream celebrates lush language and nature at Surrey Art Gallery, July 4 to August 30
Solo exhibition spans painting, sculpture, digital media, embroidery, poetry, and architectural forms
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Keerat Kaur’s Symbol Harvester, 2025, acrylics, hand embroidery, and beading on canvas.
Keerat Kaur’s BAL, natural handmade pigments on wasp paper.
Surrey Art Gallery presents If Gardens Could Dream, a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Keerat Kaur, from July 4 to August 30. A launch party takes place on July 11 from 6 pm to 9 pm as part of the Gallery’s summer exhibition opening.
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. Drawing from Sikh philosophies, Panjabi language traditions, and broader South Asian literary and visual histories, her work explores the connections between land, migration, language, and identity.
Keerat Kaur’s Cor Granati, 2025, gouache on card.
Keerat Kaur. Photo by Baljit Singh
At the Seeds of Imagination Art Party on July 11, visitors can enjoy an enchanting evening of music, poetry, and art. Kaur joins associate curator Suvi Bains for a discussion and a live reading of her poetry. Attendees can make their own artworks inspired by Kaur’s love of the Gurmukhi language, view the juried ARTS 2026 exhibition, and listen for the announcement of the People’s Choice award. RSVP here to guarantee a seat at this free event.
There are more opportunities to interact with Kaur over the course of the exhibition. On July 18, families can drop into the gallery to make art inspired by If Gardens Could Dream, and Kaur will host an interactive story time and poetry reading in the studio theatre. At a Family Art Jam on August 8, artist-educators will lead children and their families through an intimate guided tour of Kaur’s exhibition followed by an artmaking activity (to register, call 604-501-5566, dial 0, or email gallerytours@surrey.ca). And on July 30, Kaur will lead an exhibition tour in Panjabi. Admission to all events is free.
Community partners for If Gardens Could Dream are DIVERSEcity Community Resources and Indian Summer Festival. Visit Surrey Art Gallery to learn more.
Post sponsored by Surrey Art Gallery.
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