Toronto subway public art

This article catalogues public art on the Toronto subway. It lists public art installed at Toronto subway stations by subway line and station. More information may be found in the individual station articles.

Station	Line	Title	Artist	Description	Photo
College		Hockey Knights in Canada	Charles Pachter	Two-part installation depicting the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs squaring off from opposite sides of the subway tracks, with the Canadiens on the northbound side and the Leafs on the southbound side. The station served the Maple Leaf Gardens when it was the main hockey arena in Toronto.
Downsview Park		Spin	Panya Clark Espinal	Abstract circle-like figure viewable from a certain angle
Dundas		Cross Section	William McElcheran	Terracotta tile murals, located by the northwest entrance and along the under-platform crosswalk, depicting a vibrant urban scene of pets, shoppers, businessmen and other commuters
Dupont		Spadina Summer Under All Seasons	James Sutherland	Two flower mosaics using thousands of pieces of glass built directly into the station's tiling reaching upward into a mezzanine
Eglinton West		Summertime Streetcar	Gerald Zeldin	Two enamel murals depicting PCC streetcars facing each other
Finch		Crossroads	Kseniya Tsoy	Mural painted outside the east side entrance between Finch and Bishop avenues	Photo not available
		Rhythm of Exotic Plants	Krystyna Sadowska	Sculpture displayed on the lower concourse level, outside the fare-paid area
Finch West		(untitled)	Bruce McLean	Sculptured concrete supporting columns
Glencairn		Joy	Rita Letendre	Station-length skylight consisting of panes of art colours inserted between two glass panels
Highway 407		Sky Ellipse	David Pearl	Multi-coloured glass panels for the subway platform skylights and bus terminal façade
Lawrence West		Spacing... Aerial Highways	Claude Breeze	Enamel tile mosaic depicting abstract wavy lines
Museum				Decorative columns resembling the Egyptian god Osiris, First Nations house posts, Doric columns found in the Parthenon, China's Forbidden City columns, and Toltec warriors
North York Centre		Top of the North Hill—1850s	Nicholas and Susana Graven	Mural made of over 5000 pieces of glazed ceramic tile, on the northbound platform
		Traffic at Yonge and Sheppard—1860s	Nicholas and Susana Graven	Mural made of over 5000 pieces of glazed ceramic tile, on the southbound platform
Pioneer Village		LightSpell	Tim Edler and Jan Edler	40 ceiling-suspended chandeliers to display 8 interactively-entered characters; artwork installed but not yet activated due to the TTC's concerns about offensive language, which is prohibited according to the TTC's 2009 revision of its By-law #1.
Queen		Our Nell	John Boyle	Painted murals at the platform level depicting Nellie McClung (a women's rights activist), William Lyon Mackenzie (first mayor of Toronto), and the former Simpson's and Eaton's department stores
Queen's Park			Ana Vilel	A ceramic tile mural, displayed in the mezzanine, donated by the Government of Portugal and inspired by Portuguese exploration of the New World
St. Clair West		Tempo	Gordon Rayner	Enamel mural depicting abstract stripes
		The Commuters	Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky	Many large bronze snails clinging to the walls of a staircase leading down from the streetcar/bus platform; inspired by a children's book by Pierre Berton. The shells of the snails consist of various items lost by commuters.
Sheppard West		Boney Bus	John McKinnon	Abstract bus shape made from giant aluminum beams and basalt "wheels"; located in front of the station.
		Sliding Pi	Arlene Stamp	Large-scale mosaic along the curved wall of the stairway between the bus platform and the mezzanine
Spadina		Barren Ground Caribou	Joyce Wieland	Large quilt featuring caribou in a tundra landscape, located at the concourse level below the 85 Spadina Road entrance[1]
		K'san Village House Posts	Fedelia O'Brien, Murphy Green, Chuck Heit	Large cedar wood carvings depicting an owl, a wolf and a hawk displayed on the ground level of the 6 Spadina Road entrance
		Morning Glory	Louis de Niverville	Surreal enamel mural at the 85 Spadina Road entrance[2]
Union		Zones of Immersion	Stuart Reid	166 large glass panels along the length of the platform depicting sketches of commuters
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre		Atmospheric Lens	Paul Raff Studio	Coloured mirrored panels and windows located on the domed ceiling
Wilson		Canyons	Ted Bieler	Wall sculpture located at the mezzanine level
York Mills		Breaking Ground	Laurie Swim	Tapestry commemorating the 50th anniversary of a 1960 accident that killed five young Italian immigrant workers constructing a tunnel for a water main in Hoggs Hollow
York University		Piston Effect	Jason Bruges Studio	Glass panels that provide a black and white lighting display when a train passes
Coxwell		Forwards and Backwards	Jennifer Davis and Jon Sasaki	Three-dimensional sculpted curtain, cast in polished reflective aluminum
Dufferin		Something Happens Here	Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski	Colourful mosaics with metallic tiles featuring local logos, icons and historical references
Kennedy		A Sense of Place	Frank Perna	Mural painted on the service road entrance; half of the mural was destroyed when the entrance was demolished in 2018
Ossington		Ossington Particles	Scott Eunson	800 stick-on coloured acrylic tiles arranged in clusters near stairways on the platform and mezzanine levels; evocative of Garrison Creek.
Pape		Source/ Derivations	Allan Harding MacKay	Rectangular decorative panels on the platform and concourse levels depicting features of the station and of the neighbourhood
Runnymede		Anonymous Somebody	Elicser Elliott	Depictions of people in Bloor West Village
Sherbourne		The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts	Rebecca Bayer	Wall panels consisting of colourful mosaic ceramic tiles
Woodbine		Directions Intersections Connections	Marmin Borins	Brightly coloured coated metal panels arranged in geometric patterns
Bayview		From Here Right Now	Panya Clark Espinal	Shadows of common objects such as apples and ladders silk screened to the linoleum and walls framed by patches of coloured tile giving it a surreal look called trompe-l'œil[3][4]
Bessarion		Passing	Sylvie Bélanger	Frieze of hands, feet, and backs of heads representing the users of the station with the images of heads at the platform level, feet at the concourse level, and hands along the stairs between the Sheppard Avenue north side entrance and the concourse
Don Mills		Before / after: 1997 / 2002	Stephen Cruise	Tilework on the concourse walls representing geologic strata with depictions of local flora and fauna
				Bronze inlays in the terrazzo floor of the concourse and platform levels depicting fossils of fish, turtles, and leaves found on the site
Leslie		Ampersand	Micah Lexier	17,000 ceramic tiles each with the hand-written words "Sheppard" and "Leslie" separated by a printed ampersand
Sheppard–Yonge		Immersion Land	Stacey Spiegel	Mosaic composed of 1.5 million one-inch tiles developed from a digitized and pixelated blend of 150 photographs depicting lush landscapes, country homes, and rural scenes stretching along Yonge Street

See also

• List of public art in Toronto
• Toronto Subway (typeface)

References

External links

• Media related to Art in the Toronto subway at Wikimedia Commons
• Art on the TTC published by Transit Toronto

This page was last edited on 1 April 2024, at 21:52