Salman Toor

Salman Toor (born 1983) is a Pakistani-born American painter. His works depict the imagined lives of young, Queer men of South Asian-birth, displayed in close range in either South Asia and New York City fantasized settings.[1] Toor lives and works in New York City.

Salman Toor
Born1983 (age 37–38)
Lahore, Pakistan
Alma materOhio Wesleyan University,
Pratt Institute
Websitewww.salmantoor.com

Biography

Salman Toor was born 1983 in Lahore, Pakistan. Toor came to the United States to attend school at Ohio Wesleyan University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2006.[2] He then obtained his MFA degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 2009.[3]

Toor is a part of a loosely-affiliated group of LGBTQ painters, sometimes called the New Queer Intimists,[4] which also includes contemporaries Doron Langberg, Louis Fratino, Kyle Coniglio, Anthony Cudahy, TM Davy, and Devan Shimoyama.[5][6]

In 2019, Toor was awarded a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.[7]

From 2020 to 2021, Toor's recent paintings were the subject of a solo exhibition, Salman Toor: How Will I Know at the Whitney Museum of American Art.[8][9][10] From 2021 to 2022, Toor's painting, Museum Boys (2021) is on view at the Frick Collection; as part of the artist residency and the exhibition, Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters where it is placed in a room in conversation with two paintings by Johannes Vermeer, Officer and Laughing Girl (made between 1655 and 1660) and Mistress and Maid (c. 1667).[11][12]

Toor's work is included in the museum collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art,[13] and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.[14]

References
  1. Smith, Roberta (2020-12-23). "Salman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  2. Stone, Julia (2016). "Reimagining His Roots, East and West". Ohio Wesleyan University. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  3. Wilkin, Karen (March 2021). "Salman Toor at the Whitney by Karen Wilkin". newcriterion.com. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  4. "Doron Langberg and the New Queer Intimism". Jewish Currents. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  5. Truax, Stephen (2017-11-07). "Why Young Queer Artists Are Trading Anguish for Joy". Artsy. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
  6. Alessandrini, Christopher (2019-05-18). "'Boys Do It Better': The Paintings of Louis Fratino". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
  7. "Salman Toor". Joan Mitchell Foundation. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  8. "Painter Salman Toor Depicts Contemporary Queer Life". Observer. 2021-02-22. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  9. Wu, Simon. "Salman Toor at Whitney Museum of American Art". Artforum.com. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  10. Murphy, Peter (2021-02-02). "Salman Toor: How Will I Know". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  11. "Contemporary paintings will hang with the Frick's Old Masters in new art series". The Art Newspaper. 2021-09-27. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  12. "Living Histories | the Frick Collection".
  13. "Salman Toor". whitney.org. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  14. "Salman Toor". Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA). Retrieved 2021-10-20.
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