SIMON HAAS

Simon Haas on Foundation : https://foundation.app/@simonhaas

Simon Haas on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/simonhaaspaints/

BIO

I was born in 1984 in Los Angeles CA to a painter father and a screenwriter mother, and I grew up in Austin, TX. I have a twin brother, Niki, who is my other half in The Haas Brothers, and an older brother, Lukas. I currently live and work in West Hollywood, CA.

Mostly known for my work as one half of The Haas Brothers, I continue to pursue my passion of painting and drawing in my free time as well as create and promote queer-centered NFTs.

I studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and have been actively painting since 2005. Sparked by a request by the Tom Of Finland Foundation to draw a mural for Tom’s House, I have recently shifted much of my work to a study of queer male intimacy. My mural at the TOF house, a wall of pencil drawn glory holes, is accompanied by my phone number where visitors are invited to send their dick pics to be added to the wall. In my erotic work, I explore themes of exhibitionism and voyeurism, dick pics as currency, intimacy in the smartphone age, and the beauty of the phallus.

C.V.

7/10/2021 - 9/1/2021 • All Tomorrow’s Parties group show at Domicile Gallery Curated by Michael Slenske

5/28/2021 • Tom of Finland Foundation / Artsy : SEXOLOGY 101 curated by Brooke Wise

12/2020 • Tom of Finland Art & Culture Fair :Plugged In, Tom Of Finland Foundation VIRTUAL FAIR, Los Angeles, CA

02/2020 • I Won’t Bite, Tom Of Finland Foundation @ Neuehouse, Group Show, Los Angeles, CA

02/2020 • The Street & The Shop : Frieze LA, Desert Center LA, Group Show, Los Angeles, CA

11/2019 • Sexy Xmas III, The Lodge LA, Group Show, Los Angeles, CA

05/2019 • The Body Is The Instrument, Tom Of Finland Foundation, Group Show, Los Angeles, CA

12/2018 •The Street & The Shop, Desert Center LA @ Tin Flats, Group Show, Los Angeles, CA

07/2017 • TEN, Chainlink Gallery, Group Show, Los Angeles, CA

08/2010 • Instant LA Summer, Carmichael Gallery / Esteban Schimpf, Group Show, Los Angeles, CA

05/2010 • VOLUME, AT:1 / Andrea Neustein, Group Show, Los Angeles, CA

03/2010 • Manifest Equality, Courage Campaign/LogoTV/Rock The Vote, Group Show, Los Angeles, CA

05/2008 • Simon Haas: Drawings, UNTITLED Gallery, Solo Show, Los Angeles, CA