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
		Summertime Streetcar	Gerald Zeldin	Enamel murals on opposite sides of the tracks depicting PCC streetcars
		Super Signals	Douglas Coupland	Aluminum panels with brightly coloured concentric circles against a background of black and white diagonal lines
		Hockey Knights in Canada	Charles Pachter	Two-part installation depicting the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs on opposite sides of the subway tracks, with the Canadiens on the northbound side and the Leafs on the southbound side
		Spin	Panya Clark Espinal	Abstract circle-like figure viewable from a certain angle
		The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower	James Sutherland	Mural that highlights the role of plant life in shaping Earth's ecosystems; named after Dylan Thomas's poem of the same name
		Miscellaneous Hardware	Ron Baird	Decorative gate to an electrical substation, inspired by caps on railway tank cars
		Spadina Summer Under All Seasons	James Sutherland	Flower mosaics using thousands of pieces of glass built directly into the station's tiling reaching upward into a mezzanine
		Crossroads	Kseniya Tsoy	Mural painted outside the east side entrance between Finch and Bishop avenues
		Rhythm of Exotic Plants	Krystyna Sadowska	Abstract sculpture on the lower concourse level
			Bruce McLean	Sculptured concrete supporting columns
		Joy	Rita Letendre	Station-length skylight consisting of panes of art colours inserted between two glass panels
		Sky Ellipse	David Pearl	Multi-coloured glass panels for the subway platform skylights and bus terminal façade
		Spacing... Aerial Highways	Claude Breeze	Enamel tile mosaic depicting abstract wavy lines
				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 Heritage Murals	Nicholas and Susana Graven	Murals made of over 10,000 pieces of glazed ceramic tile on the northbound and southbound platforms
		LightSpell	Tim Edler and Jan Edler	40 ceiling-suspended chandeliers to display 8 interactively-entered characters; installed but not yet activated due to the TTC's concerns about offensive language
		Our Nell	John Boyle	Painted murals at the platform level depicting Nellie McClung, William Lyon Mackenzie, and the former Simpson's and Eaton's department stores
			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
		Boney Bus	John McKinnon	Abstract bus shape made from aluminum beams and basalt "wheels"
		Dodecadandy	Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins	Sculpture adjacent to the station's emergency exit that represents a dandelion shedding its seeds
		Sliding Pi	Arlene Stamp	Large-scale mosaic along the curved wall of the stairway between the bus platform and the mezzanine
		Flocking Together	Erika James and Jieun June Kim	Aerosol and acrylic mural on the wall of the Harlandale entrance
		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
		Barren Ground Caribou	Joyce Wieland	Large quilt featuring caribou in a tundra landscape, located at the concourse level below the 85 Spadina Road entrance
		K'san Village House Posts	Fedelia O'Brien, Murphy Green, and 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
		The Commuters	Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky	Several 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.
		The Spirits of the Ancestral Trees	Paula Gonzalez-Ossa	Mural adorning the station's emergency exit
		Tempo	Gordon Rayner	Enamel mural depicting abstract stripes
		City in Motion	Asli Alin	Mural depicting people, architecture, and public transit in downtown Toronto
		Cross Section	William McElcheran	Terracotta tile murals depicting a vibrant urban scene of pets, shoppers, businessmen and other commuters
		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
		Canyons	Ted Bieler	Wall sculpture located at the mezzanine level
		Daily Migration	Shalak Attack, Edan Maxam, and Kseniya Tsoy	Three murals located on the walls of the Tippett Road entrance and the corridor underneath Allen Road
		The Guardians	Shalak Attack	Murals of four female gatekeepers that adorn the supportive columns beneath the station
		Outside the Lines	Christine Leu and Alan Webb	Seven painted steel sculptures, inspired by air shows hosted at Downsview Airport
		Breaking Ground	Laurie Swim	Tapestry commemorating the 50th anniversary of a 1960 accident that killed five Italian immigrant workers constructing a tunnel for a water main in Hoggs Hollow
		Piston Effect	Jason Bruges Studio	Glass panels that provide a black and white lighting display when a train passes
		Earth Runs Wild	Vivian Rosas	Three-dimensional aluminium wall pieces depicting Pachamama flanked by earth and water motifs
		Florae	Katharine Harvey	Ceramic tile mosaics that depict plants and flowers indigenous to the nearby neighbourhoods and ravines
		Forwards and Backwards	Jennifer Davis and Jon Sasaki	Three-dimensional sculpted curtain, cast in polished reflective aluminum
		Pods Through Time	Cristina Delago	Mural on the wall of the bus loop, divided into two sections representing the past and the future
		Field	April Hickox	Photographic collage of wildflowers, plants, and trees native to the Toronto Islands
		Something Happens Here	Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski	Colourful mosaics with metallic tiles featuring local logos, icons and historical references
		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 Particles	Scott Eunson	800 stick-on coloured acrylic tiles arranged in clusters near stairways on the platform and mezzanine levels; evocative of Garrison Creek.
		Source/ Derivations	Allan Harding MacKay	Rectangular decorative panels on the platform and concourse levels depicting features of the station and of the neighbourhood
		Anonymous Somebody	Elicser Elliott	Depictions of people in Bloor West Village
		The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts	Rebecca Bayer	Wall panels consisting of colourful mosaic ceramic tiles
		Roots	Aniko Meszaros	Laser-cut stainless steel screens with organic, root-like designs, casting shadows through a perforated canopy
		Directions Intersections Connections	Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins	Brightly coloured coated metal panels arranged in geometric patterns
		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
		Passing	Sylvie Bélanger	Friezes representing the station's users, depicting heads at the platform, legs at the concourse, and hands along the stairways leading to the station entrances
		before/after	Stephen Cruise	Tilework and bronze inlays that represent the local geology, flora, and fauna
		Northern Dancer	Stephen Cruise	Sculpture on the wall of an electrical substation that pays homage to the eponymous racehorse
		Ampersand	Micah Lexier	17,000 ceramic tiles, each inscribed with the hand-written words "Sheppard" and "Leslie" divided by a printed ampersand