List of Art on the Underground Tube map covers

Since 2004, Art on the Underground has commissioned artists to create covers for London Underground's pocket Tube map. These free maps are one of the largest public art commissions in the UK. Over 35 different designs have been produced, with designs from a wide variety of British and international artists. Around 2 million maps are printed for each cover, down from a high of around 12 million in the early 2010s. In 2014, The Guardian published a pictorial survey of the first 10 years' designs, and The Londonist has a survey up to 2017. Between 2016 and 2018, there were also a series of covers for Night Tube.

Tube map covers

No Year Month Artist Title
1 2004 August Emma Kay You Are in London
2 2005 June Gary Hume Untitled
3 2006 February David Shrigley Untitled
4 June Yinka Shonibare Global Underground Map
5 2007 January Liam Gillick The Day Before (You Know What They'll Call It? They'll Call it the Tube)
6 July Jeremy Deller and Paul Ryan Portrait of John Hough (TfL's longest serving member of staff - 45 years of service)
7 2008 January Cornelia Parker Underground Abstract
8 March Mark Wallinger Going Underground
9 October Pae White ...fragment of a Magic Carpet, circa 1213
10 2009 March Paul Noble Untitled
11 September Richard Long Earth
12 2010 May Barbara Kruger Untitled (Tube Map)
13 2011 March Eva Rothschild Good Times
14 August Michael Landy All My Lines in the Palm of Your Hand
15 December Yayoi Kusama Polka Dots Festival
16 2012 June Tracey Emin The Central Line
17 December Sarah Morris Petrobas (Rio)
18 2013 May Mona Hatoum London: The World
19 December Imran Qureshi All Time Would Be Perpetual Spring
20 2014 May Rachel Whiteread The Hole of London 2014
21 December Daniel Buren From A Single One To Millions: Ink On Paper
22 2015 May Pablo Bronstein Design for a magnificent London Underground Grand Pendulum in gilt bronze
23 2016 January Tomma Abts Untitled
24 June Hew Locke Tunnel Vision
25 December Gillian Carnegie Metropolitan Diamonds
26 2017 June Lily van der Stokker Out Next Stop
27 2018 January Marc Camille Chaimowicz Untitled
28 May Geta Brătescu Game of Forms
29 December Linder The Bower of Bliss
30 2019 June Laure Prouvost You are deeper than what you think
31 December Bedwyr Williams Morden
32 2020 May Elisabeth Wild Fantasías
33 December Phyllida Barlow helter skelter
34 2021 September Helen Cammock sit alongside and feel me breathe
35 2022 January Larry Achiampong What I Hear I Keep
36 May Joy Labinjo Twist Out
37 November Do Ho Suh Routes/Roots: London
38 2023 May Sharon Hayes Come Out, Come Out

Night Tube map covers

No Year Month Artist Title
1 2016 December Samara Scott Night Tube Map Commission
2 2017 May Pio Abad Eddie
3 December Marianna Simnett Wing-sleepers
4 2018 May Marie Jacotey You in my bedroom
5 December Jade Montserrat hand this piece to one Jacob Aston West (b. approx. 1941–43, Montserrat)