Designed to enrich travel through Toronto Pearson, our extensive art and exhibition program offers a unique, uplifting and educational experience to the airport’s many visitors. Terminal 1 brings travellers a renewed era of design, amenities and customer service excellence.

Eight commissioned pieces, created by Canadian and international artists, were selected from more than 300 submissions during an open call for expressions of interest in early 2000. Each permanent piece of our collection was designed to represent Toronto’s role as the gateway to the North American global air transportation system, and communicates the essence of flight in a conceptual, abstract or realistic manner.

In addition, three large-scale sculptures were commissioned or purchased for Pier F. Works from the Transport Canada Collection complete the GTAA’s permanent Art and Exhibitions Program. For a preview of these works, view the art catalogue.

The GTAA also features several changing exhibition spaces in various locations in Terminal 1.

For more information about the art program at Toronto Pearson, contact our Curator via e-mail at art@gtaa.com.


Toronto on Film

Toronto on Film is now on display in Terminal 3, in the Arrivals Transfer Corridor. Passengers arriving from the US can see the exhibit as they approach Canada Customs. The exhibition was created for Toronto Pearson by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). To see the entire exhibition, click here.


Dinosaurs in Terminal 1

The GTAA has unveiled a new display at Toronto Pearson that will take passengers back to a time when pterodactyls traveled the skies instead of airplanes. The prehistoric display, A Scene from the Late Jurassic, is sure to thrill the international airport travelers and visitors with two dinosaurs, courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). The unique display is now open to the public in Terminal 1’s International Arrivals area, which includes the scene of a large Allosaurus bearing down on an Othnielia that has tripped to the ground.

Allosaurus		Othnielia

Research Casting International installed the dinosaurs in less than four hours. Our time lapse version only takes a minute and half to watch.

ARTSTAGE

ARTSTAGE is a public art exhibition at Toronto Pearson, overlooking the north side of Highway 401 between Renforth Drive and Dixie Road. This privately sponsored exhibition will remain at Toronto Pearson for a period of three years (2006–2009). The sculptures by three artists, Michel De Broin, Carl Skelton and Ilan Sandler, provide hundreds of thousands of people with the opportunity to view large-scale public art as they travel to and from the City of Toronto. For more information, visit www.artstage.ca.