The artists and designers included in the exhibition are Thora Dolven Balke, Massimo Bartolini, Hernan Bas, Guillaume Bijl, Maurizio Cattelan, Elmgreen & Dragset, Pepe Espaliú, Tom of Finland, Simon Fujiwara, Han & Him, Laura Horelli, Martin Jacobson, William E. Jones, Terence Koh, Jani Leinonen, Klara Lidén, Jonathan Monk, Nico Muhly, Norway Says, Henrik Olesen, Nina Saunders, Vibeke Slyngstad, Sturtevant and Wolfgang Tillmans.
Other features Fredrik Sjöberg's Fly Collection, Massimo De Carlo's Porcelain Collection, Collected Etnographica, Real Estate Agents performed by Helen Statman & Trevor Stuart.
Tom of Finland
born in Kaarina, Finland in 1920
Died in Helsinki, Finland in 1991
www.tomoffinlandfoundation.org
Untitled, 1979
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Selected Solo Shows
2008, Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid [2005 - 2008]
2006, Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris
2006, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
2006, Western Project Rough, Culver City, Los Angeles
2006, Charles Cowles Gallery Coming of Age, New York
2001, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica [1999 - 2001]
1999, James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels
1999, Finnish Institute - retrospective The Most Famous Finn, Paris
1999, Jyvaskyla Art Museum (retrospective), Jyvaskyla
1999, YYZ Artist Outlet (retrospective), Toronto
1999, TBA (retrospective), Chicago
1997, Galleri Lars Boman, Stockholm
1994, Feature Inc., New York [1988 – 1994]
1994, Schwules Museum, Berlin
1994, Museum des Erotik Kunst, Hamburg
1993, Gallery Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
1992, Galerie Pelin, Helsinki
1991, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
1987, Rob Gallery, Amsterdam [1978 - 1987]
1980, Robert Samuel Gallery, New York
1978, Feyway Studios, San Francisco
1978, Eons Gallery, Los AngelesSelected Group Shows
2009, MoMA, Compass in Hand: Selections from the Rothschild Foundation Collection, New York
2008, The Kinsey Institute l Pre-Revolutionary Queer, Bloomington
2008, Homotopia CUC Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
2008, MoMA Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing, New York
2008, Galería Espacio Mínimo ARCO, Madrid
2006, Portland Museum of Art, Portland
2001, Mark Moore Gallery The Armory Show, New York City [2000 - 2001]
2000, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Made in California, Los Angeles
2000, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation 10th Anniversary, New York
1999, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
1998, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange
1998, Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, New York
1997, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Master Drawings, Los Angeles
1997, The Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
1997, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin
1991, Amos Andersonin Taidemuseo, Helsinki
1991, Galerie Mosabaka, Helsinki
1991, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
1989, WIWA International, Cologne
1989, New Museum, New York
1986, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles
1978, Stompers, New YorkPublic Collections
The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Kaarina Township, Kaarina, Finland
Leather Archives & Museum, Chicago
Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
MSC Finland, Helsinki
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Portland Museum of Art, Portland
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Suontausta Museum, Eura
Tom of Finland Foundation, Los AngelesSelected Bibliography
Tom of Finland XXL, Taschen Verlag
Arell, Berndt & Mustola, Kati; Ennennäkemätönta — Ünforseen, LIKE Pub Ltd
Art of Pleasure, Taschen Verlag (3 editions)
Dirty Pictures, St. Martins Press
Life and Times of Tom of Finland, (French, German, English and Finnish)
Retrospectives I – III, Tom of Finland FoundationVideo and Film
Daddy and the Muscle Academy | Crystal Eye | Finnish Film Board
