The Off Sunset Festival, now in its 8th year, is a playful summer celebration bring together over 10,000 revelers to bask in the L.A. sunshine while venturing through the half-mile street fair. Find us there!

Discover diverse perspectives on aesthetics, practice, alternative histories, and possible futures for queer architecture by three talented artists.

To kick off the Daddy’s Day weekend celebrations in June’s Pride Month, Tom of Finland Foundation presents an exciting photography exhibition by world famous photographer Mike Ruiz at TOM House.

Featuring twenty analog portraits of friends, lovers, mentors, and inspirations – a method of photographing that focuses on the tender connections and bonds we form as we orbit each other and move throughout this world.

For thirty-seven years, Tom of Finland Foundation has been building the world’s most extensive collection of LGBTQ+ art. AllTogether explores this collection consisting of thousands of artworks, spanning multiple decades and encompassing all media and techniques.

Featuring a major installation An Army of My Life, which takes inspiration from the Terracotta Army, it includes 50 3D sculptures, each of which are modelled on the artist and manifestations of Lismore’s life living as sculpture

This is the first major posthumous presentation within the United States of musician, writer, occultist, cultural engineer, and visual artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020) and he/r romantic partner Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge (1969-2007).

At a moment of unprecedented creativity in men’s fashion and reflection on gender, this exhibition explores how designers, tailors and artists – and their clients and sitters – have constructed and performed masculinity, and unpicked it at the seams.

“I have tried to capture each model’s individual character and personality in my art. These range from the reserved and sometimes boyish charm of one to the raw sexuality of another.“ -Tank

Rather than highlight Tom’s later work, Tom of Finland: An Imaginary Sketchbook is instead a cross-section of his less polished and unfinished freehand drawings and sketches.

What better way to treat yourself to a new harness or pair of chaps than with The Mr. She’s amazing leather designs? The Mr. She will set up shop at #TOMsBar2022 for all your calfskin needs.

“I find it incredibly inspiring and invigorating the way the Foundation in its current form is able to carry on Tom’s work and visibility in so many ways, from just keeping his important and groundbreaking work in the public eye to finding active ways to keep his work engaged with the art community..."-HB

“We want to bring light to a long legacy of Queer imagination and perseverance worldwide. Stories of artists which many have faced discrimination and misrepresentation due to the nature of who they are and what they create."

Since the 1980s, Tom of Finland Foundation has listed a lot of works by LGBTQI+ artists whose work is in line with the homoerotic style of the famous Tom of Finland. This is the first time that a collection has been presented outside of Los Angeles.

In an era plagued by AIDS, Tom and his friend Durk Dehner, looked towards the future. They collected works by international illustrators who often had to work anonymously and under a pseudonym, such as Mr. Link, a teacher and musician originally from the American Midwest...

Get ready to turn it up with Lights Down Low, performing a live DJ set at TOM’s Bar. Founders and resident DJs Corey Sizemore and Richie Panic both got their start in small venues, throwing intimate parties with wild vibes.

As a part of our Artist-in-Residence program our artists work on a final presentation to conclude their stay. In American Headache, Żukowski explores his experience of the state of overload that is a part of everyday life in the United States.

Tom of Finland Foundation is proud to announce Orville Peck as the Honored Guest, who will be presented with the Tom of Finland Foundation 2022 Cultural Icon Award.

Since the ’90s, Diesel’s advertisement campaigns have set a unique tone of voice, serving as an antidote to the status quo, normalizing taboos, flipping the script on stories of social injustices, minorities, absurd in society.

Anyone who has even tangentially come in touch with the LGBTQ+ community on a regular basis has likely had at least some exposure to imagery related to the Leather community. Now, that community finds itself at the center of the lenses of Mike Ruiz’s cameras.

Skira has published a volume dedicated to the drawings of the master of homoerotic art Tom of Finland who made the gay leather aesthetic iconic, transforming it into a pop language. Tom of Finland was the perfect eyewitness to document the birth of communities linked to uniform fetishes...

Have you guessed it yet? Mike Ruiz is into Leather. The celebrity photographer — also known for his reality TV appearances on RuPaul’s Drag Race and The A-List: New York — has turned his lens on Leathermen for a photo series celebrating the Queer subculture.

For the apparel, Tom of Finland Foundation provided Diesel with a selection of works from its LGBTQIA+ art collection to feature on separates and accessories ranging from denim jackets and shirts to tote bags and underwear.

To give further visibility to this legacy, the designer created a special Pride 2022 capsule collection with the artwork of some of the same artists of the exhibition that have been curated by Foundation.