As we begin the new year together, we extend our heartfelt thanks and warmest wishes to our incredible supporters. Your belief in the power of the arts makes creativity, connection, and expression possible in our community.
May the year ahead bring you inspiration, joy, and meaningful moments, and may it be filled with new opportunities to imagine, create, and share beauty.
We are deeply grateful for another year made possible by your continued encouragement and partnership.
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Our immersive residency invites LGBTQIA2S+ artists from around the world to explore their practice without censorship, engage with our vast archives, and develop new work in a space rooted in Queer history, pleasure, and creative freedom.
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SAVE THE DATES: 19th February through 19th March
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This exhibition celebrates fifteen years of artists-In-residence at Tom of Finland Foundation and frames TOM House as a living pantheon of Queer mythmaking and features works from Tom of Finland Foundation’s permanent collection, archives, and selected loans.
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Kick off the new year with our first Life Drawing Session featuring model Papi Suave! Join us in person at TOM House or participate virtually via Zoom.
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5th Sept. 2025 – 3rd May 2026
Düsseldorf,Germany
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With works by Paul McCarthy, Peaches, Zheng Bo, Tom of Finland, Joëlle Dubois, Poulomi Basu, Miyo van Stenis, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, Martin de Crignis, Melody Melamed, Fausto Berlin and many more.
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Through 19th January
Los Angeles
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A visual study of intimacy and vulnerability, exploring gender codes and kink creating space for Queer POC.
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Through 8th February
Stockholm
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A retrospective celebrating 15 years of world-class photography—from international icons including Tom of Finland to Swedish masters—highlighting the evolution of visual storytelling across the globe.
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Joshua joins the Board following months of deep collaboration, helping shape our new branding, immersing himself in TOM House and its culture, and contributing significantly to our fundraising and partner development efforts.
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Tom of Finland Foundation is proud to be a partner in an international research project launching in 2026, led by Dr. Kari Silvola at the University of Oxford.
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“I think it kind of defangs fascism,” New York City Councilman Chi Ossé said of Tom’s work. “For something that is supposed to stoke fear in our community to be repurposed in a very sexy, tongue-in-cheek way is really how you defang some of the aggressive conservatism and history we’ve seen.”
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Experience TOM House up close! Small-group tours Thursdays and Saturdays at 2p. Only six guests per tour—claim your spot before it’s gone!
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Tom of Finland’s preparatory drawings, known by the artist as “roughs,” offer a rare glimpse into the creative process behind his venerated finished works. Executed with spontaneity and confidence, these seminal studies present figures in varying stages of emergence, revealing Tom’s exceptional draftsmanship and instinctive command of form and gesture.
In contrast to the highly polished “finished” drawings, these works expose moments of experimentation—poses tested, erased, and refined—allowing collectors to witness the evolution of the aesthetic that would come to define his legacy. Merging socially sanctioned archetypes with marginalized identities, these preparatory drawings embody Tom’s revolutionary vision: The creation of confident, erotic, and aspirational Gay male figures at a time when such imagery was virtually nonexistent.
Balancing raw erotic charge with extraordinary technical skill, the preparatory drawings intimately reveal an artist who used the immediacy of pencil on paper to materialize a world of unapologetic freedom, desire, and self-affirmation.
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A donation to Tom of Finland Foundation helps preserve LGBTQ+ art, culture, and history—our struggles, triumphs, and existence. By supporting us, you empower generations to express their Queerness through art, creativity, and community. Give today and help keep this vital legacy alive.
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