Murals

Mural Locations

  • Legacy in Motion

    This mural was designed and created from May 15th to July 15th, 2018 as a SPARK project of the Cultural Hotspot, produced in partnership with the City of Toronto and supported by a StreetARToronto Partnership Program grant. ‘Legacy in Motion’ began with an Introduction to Mural Art program, held at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto.
    Congratulations to Rob Matejka and artists Leyland Adams, Joefrey Anthony Cabalu, Mel Coleman, Banafsheh Erfanian, Siddarth Khaire, Raoul Olou, Menelik Powell, Kareen Weir and thanks to all volunteers.

  • Hockey Bees

    A couple of bees playing hockey, a moth playing a saxophone, some grapes, and a poppy flower. This is painted under the pedestrian bridge accessing the Meridian Center, by Mac Peters, as part of the Niagara International Mural Festival in June 2018.

  • St. George and the Dragon

    A street art re-interpretation of the old trope of St. George the Martyr, battling the Dragon. This 2015 version is based on a 1502 renaissance painting by Vittore Carpaccio. In the new version the figures have been warped using photoshop and stripped of their 16th century surroundings. They instead exist here, in Toronto, displayed on the raw cinderblock of a former industrial warehouse building in the West End. In a notable change from former paintings of the same theme, this St. George has no lance, and the Dragon flees in fear rather than battling the martyr. Jacob Hughes’ version was painted as a response to a different mural by artist Istvan Kantor, on the same wall. The mural has since received a third layer response by artist Oscar Figueroa, as the wall (and neighbourhood) continue/s to evolve.

  • Truly Two

    The silo’s cylindrical shape serves as the conceptual starting point for birdO’s message; the necessity of a greater synchronicity between the natural and anthropomorphic world.

  • A Red Fork

    Jarus’ approach to the South Liberty silo emphasizes the human gaze within an area of industrial buildings and residential towers, reminding the viewer that nature is there if we just take a look.

  • Multipli’city

    This project, entitled Multipli’city, is managed by Mural Routes and is part of the StreetARToronto Partnership Program in collaboration with the Corktown Residents and Business Association, the City of Toronto Parks Department, and Relay 2017 – Friends of the PanAm Path.
    Located at Underpass Park in downtown Toronto.

  • Little Bangladesh

    The mural means home. It’s a depiction of an ordinary but very distinctly recognizable Bangladesh scene. The neighbourhood of Crescent Town is populated by Bangladeshis and is near the intersection that is essentially “little Bangladesh” with the culture flourishing on the streets and in businesses. I wanted to remind them a little of their old…

  • Vaughan Road Lives On

    A tribute mural to Vaughan Road Academy/Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute in honour of the high school that served the community for 91 years, before closing in 2017. Using the school colours of Red, Blue and Gold (Yellow), the mural contains images of the school mascot, athletes and sports activities and high school memorabilia.
    Created by Karen Roberts, former VRCI Alumni, for the Bell Box Project, Aug. 2017.

  • Hommage à Oliver Jones

    To mark the 80th anniversary of Oliver Jones (September 11th, 2014), MU celebrates the immense talent of this great Montrealer, pianist and teacher by producing a large outdoor mural in Little Burgundy where he grew up. He will now be immortalized on the wall of Habitations Albert, near the Parc des Jazzmen, by muralists Dan Buller and Five Eight.

  • Rush of Fall

    The given theme for all the artistic projects at the Habitations Jeanne-Mance is “nature and vegetation”. This first mural of the serie Les saisons montréalaises (The Montreal Seasons) depicts a contemporary landscape highlighting the beautiful autumn colours.

  • Hot Summer Night

    David Guinn and Phillip Adams used the fireworks, the Mount Royal tamtams and the crowds of festival-goers to capture summer in Montreal. Hot Summer Night is yet another mural in the series The Montreal Seasons located at Habitation Jeanne-Mance.

  • Manifeste à Paul-Émile Borduas

    Le 22 février 2010 marquait le cinquantième anniversaire du décès de Paul-Émile Borduas. À cette occasion, MU a amorcé la production d’un diptyque mural visant à souligner l’apport inestimable de Borduas à la vie culturelle québécoise, et à revitaliser la Place Paul-Émile-Borduas. Cette première murale rend un hommage à la contribution de ce grand artiste à la vie artistique et sociale du Québec dans une composition graphique reprenant des éléments visuels de six différents tableaux de Borduas.
    February 22, 2010 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Paul-Émile Borduas. To mark the occasion, MU launched a two-phase mural project to highlight Borduas’ important cultural contribution and to revitalize and beautify Place Paul-Émile-Borduas. The mural paid homage to Borduas’ contribution to Quebec’s artistic and social development by graphically assembling visual elements from six of the artist’s paintings.

  • Breath of Spring

    Artists David Guinn and Phillip Adams completed the Habitations Jeanne Mance (HJM) series Les saisons montréalaises (Montreal Seasons) with an ode to Spring. The work immortalizes Montrealers taking advantage of the colours, odours, and picnics and flowering trees that characterize the arrival of good weather and of spring.

  • L’air du temps

    Continuing along the theme of the four seasons found in the murals produced at the Jeanne-Mance Housing Complex (visible from de Maisonneuve Blvd. East), MU has begun a new series on the theme of the four elements (air, water, earth and fire).

  • Terre d’accueil

    Located at the Habitations Jeanne-Mance housing project (at the intersection of Ontario E. and Saint-Dominique Streets), the mural, produced by MU, is the third in the series representing the four elements. After an impressive overcast sky (L’air du temps, 2012) and the majestic Saint-Lawrence River (Au fil de l’eau, 2013), artist Philip Adams – who was in creative residency at the Habitations Jeanne-Mance during the creation of the mural – chose Mount Royal to depict the earth.