The Festival is ToFF’s yearly programming effort to bring together artists, galleries and patrons from all over the globe in a socially friendly setting, so that they can network as well as buy and sell works.

A free screening of Daddy and the Muscle Academy! ToFF President and Cofounder Durk Dehner will be on hand to introduce the film. Following the screening, Kiasma museum guide Antti Solin will lead a tour of the exhibition TOM OF FINLAND Bold Journey with Durk on hand to provide context about the artwork and answer questions.

Desire will showcase artwork and performances by over 20 artists, including friends of the Foundation Gio Black Peter, Florian Hetz, Bruce LaBruce, Matt Lambert, Łukasz Leja, Slava Mogutin, and Stuart Sandford.

Join Durk Dehner and Richard Villani in conversation on Friday 8th September beginning at 7p. In conjunction with the Desire group exhibition curated by Yves de Brabander and Eric LeRouge, Durk and Richard will chat on the topics of love and desire.

Tom of Finland Foundation is on the ground in Berlin for Folsom Europe. Stop by our booth on Saturday 9th September to say hello to Durk Dehner and Richard Villani. A limited edition poster created just for the event and signed by Durk will be available for purchase.

MODELS: Anderson and Stan. We will be outside at TOM House. Room for 18 artists only in the live session. Join in person: $30 through Friday 8th September, $40 after Friday 8th September. OR Join online: $17 through Friday 8th September, $22 after Friday 11th August.

Foundation artist-in-residence Jonathan David Smyth (AKA Julian Scott) will exhibit a new series of still images he has produced during his time here at the TOM House. The photo series – documenting various friends, fellows, and fam – will be presented as an immersive and site-specific installation.

The Irvine Fine Arts Center is proud to announce the opening of All Media 2023, an exhibition featuring 67 local and national artists who work in disciplines such as sculpture, photography, painting, ceramics, drawing, collage, metal, works on fiber, and more.

Gay cruising vendor/leather/fetish event for experienced rough trade and the kink curious for man-on-man fun. Buy/trade/sell your leather/fetish gear and support San Diego’s finest custom leather hand crafters and fetish artists. Come for the swap, stay for the meat! A portion of the proceeds will benefit Tom of Finland Foundation.

Based on James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus, this experimental film blends together haunting historical narrative and COVID-19 era reality of Bangkok’s infamous red light district. It follows the daydream of a beautiful boy prostitute who conceives a series of interlinked fantasies populated by ghosts from the Cold War.

The characters in Tom of Finland’s drawings – lumberjacks, bikers, soldiers and policemen – exude vitality, joy and pride. The artist drew to arouse desire, initially for his own private pleasure, and later for an expanding world of fans.

Dreamy – Queer Imaginaries, from the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma’s collection, aims to underline the connectivity between past and present practices dealing with LGBTQI+ identities, historicizing recent practices and signaling Tom of Finland’s pioneering agency.

We will be drawing from live male models in a variety classical poses and highly graphic depictions of homoerotic nudity and sex.

We will be outside at TOM House AND online!

Kink Out is a bi-coastal collective that unites people of diverse identities with lived experience in BDSM culture through art, activism, community organizing, and conversation.

“Kink Out: Ephemera” is co-organized with kd Diamond and Daphne aka EthicalDrvgs in collaboration with The Carter/Johnson Library and Collection.

Just as the emerging Gay rights movement started gathering momentum in the United States in the 1960s, a Finnish illustrator captured the community’s newfound self-confidence in his works: Tom of Finland’s pornographic drawings of hyper-masculine bikers, cowboys and sailors did away with the age-old stereotypical depiction of the homosexual man as an effeminate dandy.

Tom’s work was dismissed as cheap smut for much of his career, but it’s been posthumously reclaimed and preserved by fashion designers as an important part of the Queer art canon. The idea that someone might want to cloak themselves in kitsch illustrations of swollen nipples and pendulous appendages has become significantly less risqué.