Born Touko Laaksonen in Kaarina, Finland, 1956
Died 1991
Selected One–Person Exhibitions
2011“Tom of Finland: Public and Private,” Antebellum Gallery, Los Angeles
“Tom of Finland, Original Drawings,” PHD Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Tom’s Coming Home! Tom of Finland Retrospective,” Logomo Exhibition Center, Turku, Finland
2009“Tom of Finland,” Schlechtriem Brothers, Berlin
2008Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid
2007Inman Gallery, Houston
2006Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris
Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
“Rough,” Western Project, Culver City, CA
“Coming of Age,” Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
2005“Tom of Finland,” Galeria Espacio Minimo, Madrid
Tom of Finland,” Maes & Matthys Gallery, Antwerp
2001Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels
The Adventures of Kake,” Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Most Famous Finn,” Finnish Institute, Paris (retrospective)
Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland (retrospective)
YYZ Artist Outlet, Toronto (retrospective)
TBA, Chicago (retrospective)
1997Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Galleri Lars Boman, Stockholm
1995Galerie Emanuel Perrotin, Paris
1994Feature Inc., New York
Schwules Museum, Berlin
Museum des Erotik Kunst, Hamburg
Club Champion, Canberra
1993 Gallery Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
1992Galerie Pelin, Helsinki
A Memorial Retrospective,” Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
1991Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
Feature Inc., New York
1989Feature Inc., New York
1988Feature Inc., New York
1987Rob Gallery, Amsterdam
1985 Rob Gallery, Amsterdam
1984Galerie Jansen, Berlin
Andres Ufer, Berlin
1983Rob Gallery, Amsterdam
1982Score Bar, Los Angeles
Rob Gallery, Amsterdam
1982Ambush Bar, San Francisco
1981Rob Gallery, New York
Rob Gallery, Amsterdam
1980Rob Gallery, Amsterdam
Robert Samuel Gallery, New York
1978Rob Gallery, Amsterdam
Feyway Studios, San Francisco
Eons Gallery, Los Angeles
1973The Revolt Press Bookstore, Hamburg
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012“We the People,” Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, New York, curated by Alison Gingeras and
Jonathan Horowitz
“Summer Camp,” Schroeder Romero & Shredder, New York
“The Mutable Portrait,” Clifford Chance US LLP, New York; curated by Jacob Robichaux
2011“Happy Holidays! Drawings!” Alex Zachary, New York
“Tom of Finland and Mates,” Galerie Mooi-Man, Groningen, Netherlands
“Never Alone: A Look at Tom and His Friends,” ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles
2010“Tom of Finland and then some,” Feature Inc., New York
The Boneyard,” Maloney Fine Art + Kim Light / Lightbox, Los Angeles
ARCO, Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid
Revealed: The Tradition of Male Homoerotic Art,” Central Connecticut State University Art Galleries, New Britain, CT
2009“The Collectors,” 53rd International Art Exhibition – Nordic & Danish Pavilions, Venice
Tattoo,” Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York
Compass in Hand: Selections from the Rothschild Foundation Collection,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008Pre–Revolutionary Queer, The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN
“Liverpool Biennial,” Homotopia CUC, UK
“Ma Bête Noire,” Phil, Los Angeles
“Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Trade,” Phil, Los Angeles
ARCO, Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid
2006SCOPE, Miami
Portland Museum of Art, OR
2005Art@Large, New York
2004James Kelly Contemporary Museum, Santa Fe
2001The Armory Show, Mark Moore Gallery, New York
2000Whitechapel Gallery, Londonr
“Made in California,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Armory Show, Mark Moore Gallery, New York
10th Anniversary Exhibition,” Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
1999Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, CA
Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, New York
1997Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Master Drawings,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
Meyerson-Nowinski Gallery, Seattle
Akademie der Kunste, Berlin
1992Casco Gallery, Utrecht, Belgium
Summer group exhibition, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles
1991Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ
Feature Inc., New York
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
National Leather Association Fetish Art Los Angeles
Galerie Mosabaka, Helsinki
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Private Collections,” Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
Matrix Gallery, University of California Berkeley
1990Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles
Wessel O'Connor, New York City
Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco
1989Matrix Gallery, University of California Berkeley
WIWA International, Cologne
New Museum, New York
1988Leonardo da Vinci Gallery, Los Angeles
1986Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
“Naked Eyes,” International Gay & Lesbian Archives, West Hollywood, CA
1983The Basement, New York
1982I.E.M., Paris
1978Stompers Boot Shop, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN
The Art Institute of Chicago
Kaarina Township, Finland
Leather Archives & Museum, Chicago
Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
MSC Finland—Tom’s Club, Helsinki
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Suontausta Museum, Eura, Finland
Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles
Publications
Tom of Finland XXL, Taschen Verlag
The Comic Collection, Taschen Verlag
Berndt, Arell & Kati Mustola. Ennennäkemätönta — Ünforseen, 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 (French edition), Gemini
Life and Times of Tom of Finland (German edition), Bruno Gmunder
Life and Times of Tom of Finland (English edition), St. Martins Press
Life and Times of Tom of Finland (Finnish edition), Otava Press
Retrospectives I – III, Tom of Finland Foundation (1 printing)
Video and Film
Daddy and the Muscle Academy, Crystal Eye, Finnish Film Board
Tom's Men, Eros Series, Altomar Video
Boots Biceps & Bulges, Eros Series, Altomar Video
Advocate Men, Advocate Video Series, LPI