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Launching 2026 in Toronto, LAT will be a free, open-air destination for outstanding contemporary art from around the world.

02/18/2026

A behind-the-scenes look at how we are using 3D scanning to bring artwork to life on the Art Trail this summer. 👨‍💻

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02/11/2026

We’re so excited to share the first behind-the-scenes peek at our artists, who are busy creating for the launch of the trail this summer.

Here are Nadia Belerique ( ) and Tony Romano ( ) in their home and studio, working on their first-ever collaborative public artwork—an incredible project that will help inaugurate the trail.

We can’t wait to share more in the lead-up to June 2026. For the most up-to-date info, sign up for our newsletter.

🎥 David Hartman ( )

02/02/2026

Introducing Oluseye.
seye will inaugurate the LAT trail this summer with a new public artwork that questions how histories of movement, memory, and resilience are carried through the body and the land.

Slide 1: Oluseye. Photograph by Josh Rille.
Slide 2: “Mighty Peter”, 2024.
Slide 3: From exhibition “Orí mi pé” Documentation photograph by LFdocumentation / “Good Luck Totem”, 2024.
Slide 4: “Black Ark”, 2022.
Slide 5: Making of “Subject to the Tide (After David Hammons)”, 2018-2025.
Slide 7: Oluseye. Photograph by Josh Rille.

01/28/2026

We’re excited to see the river’s emerging biodiversity highlighted in a new CTV News article by Joe Van Wonderen, published yesterday. This feels especially meaningful as several of our artists are already engaging directly with the living systems of the area. 🐟🌳☀️

Check out the article through the link in our bio!

Image Credit:
Slide 1: Underwater Video Survey, TRCA. Recording Date: August 2025
Slide 3: Screenshot: CTV News

01/27/2026

.hirmer will be creating a new work that will launch with the LAT launch in June, 2026. Sign up for our newsletter (link in bio) to stay connected and follow us here for live updates!

Slide 1: Lisa Hirmer. Courtesy of the artist.
Slide 2: “The Atmosphere is Always Still Being Made”, 2022.
Slide 3: “We Are Atmosphere”, 2024.
Slide 4: “Moth Garden”, 2021-Ongoing.
Slide 6: Lisa Hirmer. Courtesy of the artist.

01/16/2026

Introducing Alexandre Arrechea.

We are excited to host an interactive artwork by whose collaborative practice spans many mediums.

Slide 1: Alexandre Arrechea
Slide 2: Orange Functional, 2022. Photograph by Alon Koppel.
Slide 3: Helmsley (NOLIMITS Series), 2013./Katrina Chairs, 2016. Photograph by Rafael Garcia
Slide 4: Perpetual Free Entrance, 2006.
Slide 5: Dreaming With Lions, 2020. Photographs by Luis Gomez
Slide 7: Alexandre Arrechea

01/09/2026

Introducing Ryan Gander.

will be creating new, site responsive artworks for the art trail which will be unveiled in summer 2026!

Slide 1: Ryan Gander. Photograph by Deniz Guzel.
Slide 2: “More really shiny things that don’t mean anything”, 2012. Photograph by Pete Huggins
Slide 3: “I... I... I…”, 2019. Photograph by Aurélien Mole
Slide 4: “Chronos Kairos”, 14.58, 2021. Photograph by Aurélien Mole
Slide 5: “The Happy Prince”, 2010. Photograph by Jason Wyche
Slide 6: Ryan Gander. Photograph by Deniz Guzel.

12/18/2025

Before taking a moment to pause for the holidays, we’re looking back to a fall site visit with Toronto Actor, Director and Waterfront Resident, Michael Seater ( ), sharing an early glimpse into the projects now in development.

More to come in 2026!! 🎊

12/03/2025

Joana Vasconcelos' "Solitaire" has just been re-installed in Rome by with several of her other public artworks, as an invitation to rediscover the city through contemporary art.

LAT is currently working with sixteen exceptional artists from Canada and around the world, including to shape a new Art Trail right here in Toronto. This Giving Tuesday, your gift to LAT can help create ways to discover the city's reimagined Port Lands through visionary public art.

The Lassonde Art Trail is made possible by the generosity of people like you who join us as champions of open-air, accessible public art.

Together, we will build something extraordinary. Donate today. Your gift will be matched by the Pierre Lassonde Family Foundation. See link in the bio.

Image courtesy: "Solitaire", 2018, Lisbon © Joaquim Norte de Sousa.

11/08/2025

LAT's Executive Director Chloë Catán .catan recently spoke to journalist Annabel Keenan about the importance of maintenance planning when working on public art projects. For her text in .official on how 'the long-term maintenance of public art raises questions about funding and the complexities of who is responsible,' Annabel also references and .

A link to the pdf is available on LAT's website under News (link-in-bio).

11/05/2025

Introducing Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka.

Over the coming months we will be introducing the artists in LAT's opening program. First their practices and later sneak peaks into their plans for the Art Trail.

We start with who is working on a new temporary sculpture for LAT, which will be unveiled in summer 2026 in Biidaasige Park.

Image Captions:
Slide 1: Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka. Photograph by Roya Del Sol.
Slide 2: Documentation photograph of "tracing what is done, not done, overdue, to do,” Hand carved and hand printed linocuts on handmade gampi paper, 180" x 83, 2023
Slide 3: Documentation photograph of “Instability,” Patchwork of printed, sumi ink painted and naturally dyed washi from Kashiki Seishi, gyotaku, artist’s handmade paper, 145x168,” 2024
Slide 5: Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka. Photograph by Roya Del Sol.

10/22/2025

We are excited to announce the artists who will inaugurate the Lassonde Art Trail in 2026 with newly commissioned artworks and signature loans.

They are: Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka (Japanese - Canadian), Alexandre Arrechea (Cuban), Caroline Monnet .monnet (Algonquin Anishinaabe - French) & Dean Baldwin Lew (Canadian) in partnership with , Hank Willis Thomas (American), Kara Hamilton (Canadian) in partnership with , Kent Monkman (Cree), Lisa Hirmer .hirmer (Canadian – Mexican - German), Monira Al Qadiri (Kuwaiti) in partnership with , Nadia Belerique (Canadian) & Tony Romano (Canadian), Oluseye .seye (Nigerian - Canadian), Ryan Gander (British), and Tracey Emin (British) in partnership with .

A newly commissioned permanent destination sculpture by Joana Vasconcelos (Portuguese) will follow in 2027.

More details about the artists and their artworks will be shared on social and on LAT's website from now through to the opening next summer.

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