I LOVE FURRY

I LOVE FURRY was inspired by a desire to produce an artistic survey of furry experience. Drawing from social practice art projects like Learning To Love You More by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, I LOVE FURRY means to provide an opportunity for furries to explore and share their individual experiences of furry and contribute to a unique collective document of our community. Each prompt seeks to highlight a different aspect of being a furry, from fursuiting to drawing, gaming, looking at and commissioning art. Furry is about building a world together, where each participant finds a way to add depth to our collective fantasy.

Artist Bio Tommy Bruce is an artist living in Portland, Oregon. His work centers on an exploration of identity in contemporary culture through work with the Furry community. He was born in State College, Pennsylvania. He received an MFA in Studio Art from the University of New Mexico in 2020 and a BFA in Photography with a minor in Creative Writing from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014.

His work has been featured in exhibitions and publications internationally, including Art in America, The Institute for Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Vice, Lenscratch and ArtForum. He was an invited speaker on the subject of the Furry community at the 2016 New York City Porn Film Festival, and has advocated for the legitimacy and value of the Furry community through public presentations, exhibitions and programming for more than a decade. In 2023 he was nominated to the Silver List by Silver Eye Center. He was named one of “12 New Mexico Artists to Know” by Southwest Contemporary Magazine in 2021. He is the June 2026 Artist In Residence at Bunker Projects, where he is also curating the forthcoming exhibition I LOVE FURRY.