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A QUARTER CENTURY OF DEDICATION TO PROTECTING, PRESERVING AND PROMOTING EROTIC ART.
WEST HOLLYWOOD / LOS ANGELES EROTIC ART FAIR WEEKEND March 27 - 28, 2010

TOM OF FINLAND
EXHIBITION HISTORY

Major solo exhibitions    Major Group exhibitions
Public Collections   
Publications    Video and Film


Major Solo Exhibitions:

2008 | Galería Espacio Mínimo | Madrid, Spain          

2007 | Keith Talent Gallery | London, England

2007 | Inman Gallery| Houston, USA

2006 | Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard | Paris, France

2006 | Helsinki City Art Museum | Helsinki, Finland

2006 | Western Project Rough | Culver City (Los Angeles), USA

2006 | Charles Cowles Gallery Coming of Age | New York City, USA

2005 | Galeria Espacio Minimo Tom of Finland | Madrid, Spain

2005 | Maes & Matthys Gallery Tom of Finland | Antwerp, Belgium

2001 | Mark Moore Gallery | Santa Monica, USA

1999 | James Van Damme Gallery | Brussels, Belgium

1999 | Mark Moore Gallery The Adventures of Kake |  Santa Monica, USA

1999 | Finnish Institute - retrospective The Most Famous Finn | Paris, France

1999 | Jyvaskyla Art Museum (retrospective) | Jyvaskyla, Finland

1999 | YYZ Artist Outlet (retrospective) | Toronto, Canada

1999 | TBA (retrospective) | Chicago, USA

1997 | Mark Moore Gallery | Santa Monica, USA

1997 | Galleri Lars Boman | Stockholm, Sweden

1995 | Galerie Emanuel Perrotin | Paris, France

1994 | Feature Inc. | New York City, USA

1994 | Schwules Museum | Berlin, Germany

1994 | Museum des Erotik Kunst | Hamburg, Germany

1994 | Club Champion | Canberra, Australia

1993 | Gallery Daniel Buchholz | Cologne, Germany

1992 | Galerie Pelin | Helsinki, Finland

1992 | Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation A Memorial Retrospective | New York City, USA

1991 | Amos Anderson Art Museum | Helsinki, Finland

1991 | Feature Inc. | New York City, USA

1989 | Feature Inc. | New York City, USA

1988 | Feature Inc. | New York City, USA

1987 | Rob Gallery | Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1985 | Rob Gallery | Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1984 | Galerie Jansen | Berlin, Germany

1984 | Andres Ufer | Berlin, Germany

1983 | Rob Gallery | Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1982 | Score (bar) | Los Angeles, USA

1982 | Rob Gallery | Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1982 | Ambush (bar) | San Francisco, USA

1981 | Rob Gallery | New York City, USA

1981 | Rob Gallery | Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1980 | Rob Gallery | Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1980 | Robert Samuel Gallery | New York City, USA

1978 | Rob Gallery | Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1978 | Feyway Studios | San Francisco, USA

1978 | Eons Gallery | Los Angeles, USA

1973 | The Revolt Press Bookstore | Hamburg, Germany

Major Group Exhibitions:

2008 I The Kinsey Institute l Pre-Revolutionary Queer l Bloomington (Indiana), USA

2008 | Homotopia CUC Liverpool Biennial | Liverpool, England

2008 | MoMA Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing | New York City, USA

2008 | Galería Espacio Mínimo ARCO | Madrid, Spain

2007 | Keith Talent Gallery | Miami, USA

2007 | Keith Talent Gallery Preview Berlin | Berlin, Germany

2006 | Portland Museum of Art | Portland (Oregon), USA

2005 | Art@Large | New York City, USA

2004 | James Kelly Contemporary Museum | Santa Fe, USA

2001 | Mark Moore Gallery The Armory Show | New York City, USA

2000 | Whitechapel Gallery | London, England

2000 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art Made in California | Los Angeles, USA

2000 | Mark Moore Gallery The Armory Show | New York City, USA

2000 | Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation 10th Anniversary Exhibition | New York City, USA

1999 | Pori Art Museum | Pori, Finland

1999 | Mark Moore Gallery | Santa Monica, USA

1998 | Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College | Orange, USA

1998 | Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art | New York City, USA

1997 | Patricia Faure Gallery | Santa Monica, USA

1997 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art Master Drawings | Los Angeles, USA

1997 | The Centre for Contemporary Arts | Glasgow, Scotland

1997 | Meyerson-Nowinski Gallery | Seattle, USA

1997 | Akademie der Kunste | Berlin, Germany

1992 | Casco Gallery | Utrecht, Belgium

1992 | Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation Summer Group Exhibition | New York City, USA

1992 | Stuart Regen Gallery | Los Angeles, USA

1991 | Rutgers State University | New Brunswick, USA

1991 | Amos Andersonin Taidemuseo | Helsinki, Finland

1991 | Feature Inc. | New York City, USA

1991 | Rosamund Felsen Gallery | Los Angeles, USA

1991 | National Leather Association Fetish Art | Los Angeles, USA

1991 | Galerie Mosabaka | Helsinki, Finland

1991 | Whitney Museum of American Art | New York City, USA

1991 | Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation Private Collections | New York City, USA

1991 | University of California (Matrix Gallery) | Berkeley, USA

1990 | Couturier Gallery | Los Angeles, USA

1990 | Wessel O'Connor | New York City, USA

1990 | Mincher/Wilcox Gallery | San Francisco, USA

1989 | Matrix Gallery | University of Berkeley, USA

1989 | WIWA International | Cologne, Germany

1989 | New Museum | New York City, USA

1988 | Leonardo da Vinci Gallery | Los Angeles, USA

1986 | Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) | Los Angeles, USA

1986 | International Gay & Lesbian Archives Naked Eyes | West Hollywood, USA

1983 | The Basement | New York City, USA

1982 | I.E.M. | Paris, France

1978 | Stompers (boot shop) | New York City, USA

Public Collections:

The Kinsey Institute | Bloomington (Indiana), USA

The Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, USA

Kaarina Township | Kaarina, Finland

Leather Archives & Museum | Chicago, USA

Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation | New York City, USA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles, USA

MSC Finland - Tom's Club | Helsinki, Finland

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) | New York City, USA

Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art | Helsinki, Finland

Portland Museum of Art | Portland (Oregon), USA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | San Francisco, USA

Suontausta Museum | Eura, Finland

Tom of Finland Foundation | Los Angeles, USA

Publications:

Tom of Finland XXL | Taschen Verlag 

The Comic Collection | Taschen Verlag  (2 editions)

Tom of Finland | Ennennäkemätönta — Ünforseen | Berndt Arell & Kati Mustola | LIKE Pub Ltd

Art of Pleasure | Taschen Verlag (3 editions)

Tom of Finland | Monogram | Taschen

Dirty Pictures | St. Martins Press

Life and Times of Tom of Finland | Gemini (French)

Life and Times of Tom of Finland | Bruno Gmunder (German)

Life and Times of Tom of Finland | St. Martins Press (English)

Life and Times of Tom of Finland | Otava Press (Finnish)

Retrospectives III | Tom of Finland Foundation (1 printing)

Retrospectives II | Tom of Finland Foundation (2 printings)

Retrospectives I | Tom of Finland Foundation (3 printings edition one; 1 printing edition two)

Video and Film:

Daddy and the Muscle Academy | Crystal Eye | Finnish Film Board

Tom's Men I Eros Series, Altomar Video

Boots Biceps & Bulges I Eros Series, Altomar Video

Advocate Men | Advocate Video Series | LPI

© TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION 2003-2009

“In those days, a gay man was made to feel nothing but shame about his feelings and his sexuality. I wanted my drawings to counteract that, to show gay men being happy and positive about who they were. Oh, I didn’t sit down to think this all out carefully. But I knew — right from the start — that my men were going to be proud and happy men!" — Tom of Finland