When many artists want to see their work, they can take the subway to the closest station and walk to the gallery or museum. Unlike most artists, Sophie Ong, also known as Zovi, typically doesn’t have to leave the station, or even the subway car, to see her work on display.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is her Met; the subway is the showcase for her work, seen by millions in stations and on the subway itself. If you ride the subway, you’ve seen her work, even if it’s unlikely you knew her name. For New York City’s most moving art, just look at subway cars, as well as stations.

“That’s my work seen the most,” Ong said recently of her illustrations for “Don’t be Someone’s Subway Story,” possibly one of the highest profile campaigns in New York City history. “A lot of people wer

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