Shift is a large outdoor sculpture by American artist Richard Serra, located in King City, Ontario, Canada about 30 kilometers north of Toronto.
[1] Shift consists of six large concrete forms, each 20 centimetres thick and 1.5 metres high, zigzagging over the northwest portion of the 4.03 hectares (40,300 m2) property's rolling countryside.
[2] In 1990 the Township of King voted to designate Shift and the surrounding land as a protected cultural landscape under the Ontario Heritage Act.
[1] In 2013 the Township of King voted to prepare a bylaw to designate Shift as protected under the Ontario Heritage Act, preventing its destruction or alteration.
[3] In the summer of 1970 Serra and artist Joan Jonas visited the site, a 13-acre potato farm in King Township.
[6][7] In 1973 Serra discussed Shift in Art in America: What I wanted was a dialectic between one's perception of the place in totality and one's relation to the field as walked.
[1] In 2013 the Township of King voted to prepare a bylaw to designate Shift as protected under the Ontario Heritage Act, preventing its destruction or alteration.