This exhibition celebrates fifteen years of artists-in-residence at Tom of Finland Foundation and frames TOM House as a living pantheon of Queer mythmaking. For over forty years, artists have passed through TOM House, not just drawing from Tom’s legacy, but reshaping it—bending it, stretching it, slipping into it. The exhibition proposes Tom of Finland as a modern folk hero, with his move to Los Angeles marking a shift from underground icon to something larger: a mythic figure whose image is continually rewritten through the desires, anxieties, and fantasies of Queer life today.

FXLK PLAY: Artists-in-Mischief, Devotion, and Mythmaking is curated by LA based independent curator Jamison Edgar and features works from Tom of Finland Foundation’s permanent collection, archives, and selected loans.

Participating artists include: Marcel Alcalá, Pol Anglada, Sam Ashby, Aurélien Nobécourt-Arras, Yinon Avoir Philipsohn, M Black, Tristor Blue, Rachel Britton, Rowland Byass, Tom Cho, Antonio Da Silva, Ryan Davis, James Davison, Carlos Enfedaque, Felix d’Eon, Michael Espinoza, Xiaobing Fan, Fausto, Ed Firth, Carrington Galen, FCK-Frédérick Gautier, Jordan Michael Green, Brian Grillo, Onur Hastürk, Mark Timothy Hayward, Antoni Hervás, Florian Hetz, Rinaldo Hopf, Hovvrad, Yun-Pei, Jamison Rockmore, Antti Kauppinen, Christine Kessler, Michael Kirwan, Bas Kosters, Phuc Le, Rev. Steven Johnson Leyba, David Lindert, Jacob Love, Łukasz Leja, Éamon McGivern, Konstantinos Menelaou, Mies Mikkonen, Carta Monir, Oat Montien, Orpheus, Palanca, Joel Parsons, Gio Black Peter, Brontez Purnell, Tero Puha, Stuart Sandford, Donald C. Shorter Jr., Jonathan David Smyth, Sung Hwan Bobby Park, Sweatmother, Vincent Tiley, Basil Twist, frank.xarate, Henning von Berg, Daphne Von Rey, Gray Wielebinski, Ben Youdan, and Paweł Żukowski.