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The following is a list public artworks, monuments, and memorials that have been installed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Owner / administrator Notes

More images 		48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Memorial The north end of Queen's Park

43°39′57″N 79°23′34.6″W / 43.66583°N 79.392944°W / 43.66583; -79.392944 		1923 Eric Haldenby, Alvan Mathers War memorial White granite 2m tall, 8m long [1][2]

More images 		Adam Beck Memorial In the landscaped median of University Avenue just south of Queen Street West

43°39′02″N 79°23′11″W / 43.650464°N 79.386444°W / 43.650464; -79.386444 		1934 Emanuel Hahn Statue Bronze [3][4]

More images 		Afghanistan Memorial Queen's Park

43°39′40.9″N 79°23′30.6″W / 43.661361°N 79.391833°W / 43.661361; -79.391833 		2020 Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg (architectural firm) War memorial Bronze, granite [5][6]

More images 		The Arrival: Apprehensive Man (depicted), Jubilant Man, Orphan Boy, Pregnant Woman, and Woman on Ground Ireland Park 2007 Rowan Gillespie Sculptures Bronze [7]

More images 		The Audience 1 Blue Jays Way, Rogers Centre, Toronto 1989 Michael Snow Sculpture Steel, heavy foam, fibreglass, gold paint Each figure ~6.1m in height [8]

More images 		Bitter Memories of Childhood Holodomor Memorial Parkette, Exhibition Place 2018 Petro Drozdovsky Memorial Bronze 5 feet tall [9][10][11]

More images 		Businessman on a Horse St. Michael's College 1989 William McElcheran Sculture Bronze [12][13]

More images 		Bust of Alexander the Great Alexander the Great Parkette, Greektown 1994 Bust The City of Toronto [14]
Community 2001 Kirk Newman Sculpture Bronze 2m tall, 8m long Manulife [15]

More images 		Complexes of a Young Lady Hart House, University of Toronto 1962 Sorel Etrog Sculpture Bronze 270 x 75 x 52 cm Hart House Collection, University of Toronto [16]

More images 		Consolation St. Michael's College, University of Toronto 1996 Joe Rosenthal Sculpture Bronze University of St. Michael's College [17]

More images 		Couch Monster Art Gallery of Ontario June 20, 2022 Brian Jungen Sculpture Bronze 4m tall and 5.5m long Art Gallery of Ontario [18][19]

More images 		Courante Toronto Music Garden Various Sculpture City of Toronto [20]

More images 		Dr. William D. Young Memorial The eastern border of Kew Gardens, The Beaches

43°40′09″N 79°17′52″W / 43.669273°N 79.297819°W / 43.669273; -79.297819 		August 1920 M.D. Klein, Frances Gage, Ivor Lewis Drinking fountain and memorial Stone, bronze Designated under the Ontario Heritage Act [21][22]

More images 		Dreaming Richmond-Adelaide Centre, 120 Adelaide St. W. Fall 2020 Jaume Plensa Sculpture White marble and resin Three stories tall, weighing more than 2.5 tonnes Oxford Properties

More images 		Dreamwork of the Whales Little Norway Park, 659 Queens Quay W., west of Bathurst Street 1981 Designer: Georganna Malloff
Sculptors: Ben Barclay, Daniel Gauvin, Earl Thomlinson, Julian Bowron and Lynn Daly 		Sculpture Wood 12 metres tall [23]

More images 		The Elevated Wetlands Near Don Mills Road and the DVP 1998 Noel Harding Sculptures [24]

More images 		Endless Bench Sick Kids Hospital 1984 Lea Vivot Sculpture Bronze Sick Kids Hospital "Represents the bond between mothers and their children... Engraved with 476 messages of love, hope and inspiration."[25][26][27]

More images 		Equal Before the Law McMurtry Law Gardens, Osgoode Hall (Ontario Court of Appeal) 2011 Eldon Garnet Sculpture Bronze Scale: height: 10 ft, width 4 ft
Platform: length: 20 ft, width 4 ft, thickness 6 ft 		[28][29]

More images 		Equestrian statue of Edward VII Queen's Park 1969 Thomas Brock Sculpture Bronze [30][31][32]

More images 		Flight Stop Toronto Eaton Centre 1979 Michael Snow Sculpture Styrofoam, fibreglass 32 x 20 x 16 m

More images 		Frederick G. Gans QC Memorial
Freedom of Expression
Helix of Life Ted Bieler
Homeless Jesus
Hours of the Day
Immigrant Family Tom Otterness [33]
IT Michael Christian
Koilos Michael Christian
Large Two Forms Henry Moore
Last Alarm
Let the Oppressed Go Free
Little Glenn
Lower Simcoe Street underpass murals
Megaptera
Michael Anne Allardyce
Monument to Multiculturalism
Monument to the War of 1812
Ned Hanlan Monument
Neighbours Joe Rosenthal
Northwest Rebellion Monument
Notre Place Monument
Nurture Nature Joe Fafard
Ontario Firefighters Memorial
Ontario Police Memorial
Ontario Veterans' Memorial
Our Game Edie Parker
PanAm People’s Cauldron PanAm games opening and closing ceremony 2015 Craig White, Yshmael Cabana, Christiano De Araujo [34]
The Pasture [35]
People Walking 333 Bloor Street East, Rogers Head Office. 2007 Julian Opie [36][37][38]
Pillars of Justice Edwina Sandys [39]
Post One Monument
Princes' Gates
Princess Margaret Fountain
Queen Elizabeth Way Monument
Rhythm of Exotic Plants
Rising Zhang Huan
Sentinelles Jean-Pierre Morin
Shrine Peace Memorial
Sons of England War Memorial
South African War Memorial
Spirit of Discovery
Statue of Al Purdy [40]
Statue of Alexander the Great Alexander the Great Parkette [14]
Statue of Alexander Wood [41][42]
Statue of Edward S. Rogers Jr.
Statue of Egerton Ryerson
Statue of Elizabeth II
Statue of George Brown
Statue of Glenn Gould
Statue of Jack Layton
Statue of James Whitney
Statue of John A. Macdonald
Statue of John Graves Simcoe
Statue of John Sandfield Macdonald
Statue of Johnny Lombardi
Statue of Lesya Ukrainka [43]
Statue of Norman Bethune
Statue of Northrop Frye
Statue of Oliver Mowat
Statue of Queen Victoria [44]
Statue of Robert Raikes [45]
Statue of Sun Yat-sen Chinatown
Statue of Winston Churchill [46]
Still Dancing Dennis Oppenheim [47]
Survivors Are Not Heroes Sorel Etrog
Symbolic Peace Distillery District [48]
Tembo, Mother of Elephants
Three Way Piece No.2: Archer Henry Moore
U.V. Ceti Andrew Posa
Untitled relief (1973) John M. Kelly Library William McElcheran
When I Was Naked
When I Was Sick Church of the Redeemer
William Lyon Mackenzie Monument
Woodpecker Column [49]


See also

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References

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  2. ^ "Regimental Memorial, Queen's Park, Toronto – 15th Batt Cdn Expeditionary Force". 15thbattalioncef.ca. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
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  4. ^ "The sculpture of Sir Adam Beck - German Traces in Toronto - Goethe-Institut Canada". www.goethe.de. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
  5. ^ "Explore Queen's Park | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
  6. ^ "The Ontario Veterans' Memorial + The Afghanistan Memorial" (PDF). The Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
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  15. ^ "Community". Kirk Newman. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  16. ^ "Complexes of a Young Lady, 1962". Art Canada Institute. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
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  20. ^ "Toronto Music Garden". City of Toronto.
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  30. ^ "Dumping statue in the Don River a statement about colonialism, performance artists say". CBC. Archived from the original on 2023-09-03. Retrieved 2023-09-03.
  31. ^ "Toronto cleans up vandalized King Edward VII statue". Toronto Sun. Archived from the original on 2023-09-03. Retrieved 2023-09-03.
  32. ^ "Eddie and Me".
  33. ^ "You can't help but love new 'Immigrant Family' sculpture". Toronto Star. 2007-05-19. Archived from the original on 2023-09-03. Retrieved 2023-09-03.
  34. ^ "PanAm People's Cauldron". STEPS Public Art. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
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  44. ^ "Long-delayed statue of Queen Elizabeth II to finally be unveiled - at taxpayer's expense". The Globe and Mail. 2023-03-24. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. Retrieved 2023-09-03.
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  46. ^ "Sir Winston Churchill statue at Nathan Phillips Square gets new home". CityNews. 24 June 2014. Archived from the original on 2023-02-01. Retrieved 2023-09-03.
  47. ^ "What is that?: Colourful roller-coaster depicts Toronto's boozy history". CityNews. 25 May 2016. Archived from the original on 2018-06-10. Retrieved 2023-09-03.
  48. ^ "The Distillery Historic District: Self-Guided Tour of Victorian Industrial Heritage and Art" (PDF). August 2021.
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