Lassonde Art Trail

The Lassonde Art Trail (LAT) is a free, open-air destination for outstanding contemporary art from around the world.

Located in Biidaasige Park, Toronto, the Lassonde Art Trail is a series of 15 interconnected public art sites covering over 4 km of paths that weave through 60 acres of newly developed parkland along Toronto’s waterfront. Themes and relationships explored by art commissions and loans acknowledge the site’s layered histories, geographies, and changing social dynamics. These include indigenous contexts; the city and lake; civic society and the public realm; waterways past and present; industrial histories; wetland restoration and bioengineering; native plantings and local ecosystems; and the environment and sustainability.

The Lassonde Art Trail is at the heart of a $1.4b project that rerouted the mouth of the Don River and built flood protection for downtown Toronto. The project established a new river valley with functional wetlands and 60 acres of publicly accessible open space along the riverbanks and inner harbour. It cleaned and restored soils contaminated from past industrialisation, and naturally accommodated the effects of flooding and erosion. In the process it re-established aquatic and terrestrial habitat where indigenous species of plants and animals can thrive.

The marque, inspired by the rewilding of the river, forms the backbone of our extensive visual language. The colours are a reflection of the juxtaposition between nature and art.