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.
| width=10% | Station | width=5% | Line | Title | Artist | Description | Photo | |
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| data-sort-value="1" | Hockey Knights in Canada | data-sort-value="Pachter, Charles" | 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. | ||||
| data-sort-value="1" | Spin | data-sort-value="Espinal, Panya Clark" | Panya Clark Espinal | Abstract circle-like figure viewable from a certain angle | ||||
| data-sort-value="1" | Cross Section | data-sort-value="McElcheran, William" | 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 | ||||
| data-sort-value="1" | Spadina Summer Under All Seasons | data-sort-value="Sutherland, James" | James Sutherland | Two flower mosaics using thousands of pieces of glass built directly into the station's tiling reaching upward into a mezzanine | ||||
| data-sort-value="1" | Summertime Streetcar | data-sort-value="Zeldin, Gerald" | Gerald Zeldin | Two enamel murals depicting PCC streetcars facing each other | ||||
| Crossroads | data-sort-value="Tsoy, Kseniya" | Kseniya Tsoy | Mural painted outside the east side entrance between Finch and Bishop avenues | |||||
| Rhythm of Exotic Plants | data-sort-value="Sadowska, Krystyna" | Krystyna Sadowska | Sculpture displayed on the lower concourse level, outside the fare-paid area | |||||
| data-sort-value="1" | (untitled) | data-sort-value="McLean, Bruce" | Bruce McLean | Sculptured concrete supporting columns | ||||
| data-sort-value="1" | Joy | data-sort-value="Letendre, Rita" | Rita Letendre | Station-length skylight consisting of panes of art colours inserted between two glass panels | ||||
| data-sort-value="1" | Sky Ellipse | data-sort-value="Pearl, David" | David Pearl | Multi-coloured glass panels for the subway platform skylights and bus terminal façade | ||||
| data-sort-value="1" | Spacing... Aerial Highways | data-sort-value="Breeze, Claude" | Claude Breeze | Enamel tile mosaic depicting abstract wavy lines | ||||
| data-sort-value="1" | 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 | |||||||
| Top of the North Hill—1850s | data-sort-value="Graven, Nicholas and Susana" | Nicholas and Susana Graven | Mural made of over 5000 pieces of glazed ceramic tile, on the northbound platform | |||||
| Traffic at Yonge and Sheppard—1860s | data-sort-value="Graven, Nicholas and Susana" | Nicholas and Susana Graven | Mural made of over 5000 pieces of glazed ceramic tile, on the southbound platform | |||||
| data-sort-value="1" | LightSpell | data-sort-value="Edler, Tim" | 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. | ||||
| data-sort-value="1" | Our Nell | data-sort-value="Boyle, John" | 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 | ||||
| data-sort-value="1" | data-sort-value="Vilel, Ana" | 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 | |||||
| Tempo | data-sort-value="Rayner, Gordon" | Gordon Rayner | Enamel mural depicting abstract stripes | |||||
| The Commuters | data-sort-value="Weppler, Rhonda" | 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. | |||||
| Boney Bus | data-sort-value="McKinnon, John" | John McKinnon | Abstract bus shape made from giant aluminum beams and basalt "wheels"; located in front of the station. | |||||
| Sliding Pi | data-sort-value="Stamp, Arlene" | Arlene Stamp | Large-scale mosaic along the curved wall of the stairway between the bus platform and the mezzanine | |||||
| Barren Ground Caribou | data-sort-value="Wieland, Joyce" | 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 | data-sort-value="O'Brien, Fedelia" | 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 | data-sort-value="Niverville, Louis de" | Louis de Niverville | Surreal enamel mural at the 85 Spadina Road entrance[2] | |||||
| data-sort-value="1" | Zones of Immersion | data-sort-value="Reid, Stuart" | Stuart Reid | 166 large glass panels along the length of the platform depicting sketches of commuters | ||||
| Vaughan Metropolitan Centre | data-sort-value="1" | Atmospheric Lens | data-sort-value="Raff, Paul" | Paul Raff Studio | Coloured mirrored panels and windows located on the domed ceiling | |||
| data-sort-value="1" | Canyons | data-sort-value="Bieler, Ted" | Ted Bieler | Wall sculpture located at the mezzanine level | ||||
| data-sort-value="1" | Breaking Ground | data-sort-value="Swim, Laurie" | 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 | ||||
| data-sort-value="1" | Piston Effect | data-sort-value="Bruges, Jason" | Jason Bruges Studio | Glass panels that provide a black and white lighting display when a train passes | ||||
| data-sort-value="2" | Forwards and Backwards | data-sort-value="Davis, Jennifer" | Jennifer Davis and Jon Sasaki | Three-dimensional sculpted curtain, cast in polished reflective aluminum | ||||
| data-sort-value="2" | Something Happens Here | data-sort-value="Aquino, Eduardo" | Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski | Colourful mosaics with metallic tiles featuring local logos, icons and historical references | ||||
| data-sort-value="2" | A Sense of Place | data-sort-value="Perna, Frank" | Frank Perna | Mural painted on the service road entrance; half of the mural was destroyed when the entrance was demolished in 2018 | ||||
| data-sort-value="2" | Ossington Particles | data-sort-value="Eunson, Scott" | Scott Eunson | 800 stick-on coloured acrylic tiles arranged in clusters near stairways on the platform and mezzanine levels; evocative of Garrison Creek. | ||||
| data-sort-value="2" | Source/ Derivations | data-sort-value="MacKay, Allan Harding" | Allan Harding MacKay | Rectangular decorative panels on the platform and concourse levels depicting features of the station and of the neighbourhood | ||||
| data-sort-value="2" | Anonymous Somebody | data-sort-value="Elliott, Elicser" | Elicser Elliott | Depictions of people in Bloor West Village | ||||
| data-sort-value="2" | The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts | data-sort-value="Bayer, Rebecca" | Rebecca Bayer | Wall panels consisting of colourful mosaic ceramic tiles | ||||
| data-sort-value="2" | Directions Intersections Connections | data-sort-value="Borins, Marmin" | Marmin Borins | Brightly coloured coated metal panels arranged in geometric patterns | ||||
| data-sort-value="4" | From Here Right Now | data-sort-value="Espinal, Panya Clark" | 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] | ||||
| data-sort-value="4" | Passing | data-sort-value="Bélanger, Sylvie" | 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="4" | Ampersand | data-sort-value="Lexier, Micah" | Micah Lexier | 17,000 ceramic tiles each with the hand-written words "Sheppard" and "Leslie" separated by a printed ampersand | ||||
| data-sort-value="4" | Immersion Land | data-sort-value="Spiegel, Stacey" | 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 |