* A catalogue was published with this exhibition.
SALMAN TOOR
Born 1983, Lahore, Pakistan
Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
2009 MFA, Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2006 BFA with honors, Painting and Drawing, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
AWARDS AND HONORS
2019 Painters and Sculptors Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022-2024
Salman Toor: New Paintings and Drawings, M WOODS, Beijing, China
Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Tampa Museum of Art,
Tampa, FL; Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA*
2021-2022
Salman Toor: Music Room, Hayward Gallery Billboard, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, England
2020-2021
How Will I Know, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY*
2019-2020
Salman Toor: I Know a Place, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India
2019
New Paintings, O Art Space, Lahore, Pakistan
2018
Time After Time, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Short Stories, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan*
Toor 2
2015
Salman Toor: Drawings from ‘The Electrician’, Honey Ramka, New York, NY
Resident Alien, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY*
2014
Close Quarters, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan*
2013
The Happy Servant, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY
2011
I ♥ Kitsch, Rohtas II Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2010
New Paintings, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2009
Three Paintings, Kahlo Gallery, Lebrón-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024-2025
Spirit House, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2024
Effetto Notte: Day for Night: New American Realsim, Aïshti Foundation at Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy
Yours Truly, Nahmad Contemporary, New York, NY
Luhring Augustine x MASA, MASA, Mexico City, Mexico
Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, 60
th
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Le monde comme il va/ The World As It Goes, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, France*
2023-2024
Capturing the Moment, Tate Modern, London, England
Seven Rooms and a Garden: Rashid Johnson + Moderna Museet, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture, Museum of the City of New York, New
York, NY
Togetherness: For Better or Worse, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX
The World That Belongs to Us, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England
2023
Beautiful, Vivid, Self-Contained, Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY*
Brave New World: 16 Painters for the 21st Century, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands*
Close, GRIMM, London, England*
Very Small Feelings, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Kiran
Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
2022-2023
Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths, Aïshti Foundation, Jal El Dib, Lebanon
Manifesto of Fragility: The Many Lives and Deaths of Louise Brunet, 16e Biennale d’Art Contemporain
Lyon, macLYON, Lyon, France*
Manifesto of Fragility: A World of Endless Promise, 16e Biennale d’Art Contemporain Lyon, URDLA,
Villeurbane, France
Toor 3
2022
Based on a True Story, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Brave New World: 16 Painters for the 21
st
Century, Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands
Luncheon on the Grass, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
My Reflection of You, The Perimeter, London, England*
Pictus Porrectus: Reconsidering the Full-Length Portrait, Art & Newport at Isaac Bell House and Salon at
Rosecliff, The Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, RI
2021-2022
Any Distance Between Us, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters, Frick Madison, New York, NY*
2021
and I will wear you in my heart of heart, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
Breakfast Under the Tree, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, England
Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London, England
Equal Affections, GRIMM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands*
The Pleasure Pavilion: A Series of Installations, Luhring Augustine Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Plus One, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
2020-2021
Relations: Diaspora and Painting, PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal, Canada; Esker
Foundation, Calgary, Canada*
2020
Art on the Grid: 50 Artists’ Reflections on the Pandemic, Public Art Fund, various locations, New York, NY
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Form & Figure: Bodies of Art, Grosvenor Gallery, London, England
Myselves, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Xenia: Crossroads in Portrait Painting, Marianne Boesky, New York, NY
2019
Home Is Not a Place, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Likeness of Being: Portraiture in the Selfie Age, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY
Them, Galerie Perrotin, New York, NY
2018
Are You Here?, Lahore Biennale 2018, Lahore, Pakistan
2016
Go Figure, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
2014
Wrech, Honey Ranka, New York, NY
2013
Cinephiliac: Art Transcending Technology and Motion, Twelve Gates Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Return of the Native, Rohtas II Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2012
Letters to Taseer II, Drawing Room Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
Stop, Play, Pause, Repeat, Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Toor 4
2010
All About Us, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2009
Exchange Show, Montclair University MFA Gallery, Montclair, NJ
I Think the Word Is Dignity, Lumenhouse Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Pratt MFA Thesis Show, Stueben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Skin Deep, Kips Gallery, New York, NY
Wound, Aicon Gallery, London, England
2008
Pratt in Lucca, Piazza del Anfiteatro, Lucca, Italy
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: MONOGRAPHS AND ARTIST’S BOOKS
2022
Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love, exh. cat. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2022.
2020
Salman Toor: How Will I Know?, exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2020.
2017
Salman Toor: Short Stories, exh. cat. Karachi: Canvas Gallery, 2017.
2015
Salman Toor: Resident Alien, exh. cat. New York: Aicon Gallery, 2015.
2014
Salman Toor: Close Quarters, exh. cat. Karachi: Canvas Gallery, 2014.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2024
Deutsch, David. “Salman Toor’s Enrapturing Contacts: Communicating Joy and Sorrow Through the
Technologies of Everyday Interactions.” In Everyday Joys in Twenty-First Century Queer
American Painting: Ecstatic Ordinarinesses, 55-72. New York: Routledge, 2024.
La monde comme il va, exh. cat., 48-51. Paris: Editions Dilecta, 2024.
Rolls-Bentley, Gemma. Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between, 44-45. London:
Frances Lincoln, 2024.
Schwartz, Sanford. “Young and In Love.” In Artist Stories, 390-394. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2024.
2023
Hartog Jager, Hans den. “Salman Toor: Longing for the Other.” In Brave New World: Sixteen Painters for
the Twenty-First Century, exh. cat., 146-157. Amsterdam: Athenaeum, 2023.
The Mark H. Reece Collection of Student-Acquired Contemporary Art, 130. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest
University, 2023.
Morley, Simon. Modern Painting: A Concise History, 275. London: Thames & Hudson, 2023.
Ng, Aimee, et al. Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters, exh. cat., 78-91. New York: The Frick
Collection, 2023.
Salle, David. Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained, exh. cat. New York: Hill Art Foundation, 2023.
Tovey, Russell. Close, exh. cat., 109-116. London: GRIMM, 2023.
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2022
Amor Mundi: The Collection of Marguerite Steed Hoffman, 799. London: Ridinghouse, 2022.
Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths, exh. cat., 519. Milan: Skira, 2023.
The Many Lives and Deaths of Louise Brunet, exh. cat. Milan: Silvana, 2022.
My Reflection of You, exh. cat. London: The Perimeter, 2022.
Prime: Art’s Next Generation, 412-415. London: Phaidon, 2022.
Why I Make Art: Contemporary Artists’ Stories About Life and Work, 299-311. Los Angeles: Atelier
Editions, 2022.
2021
Equal Affections, exh. cat., 49-51. Amsterdam: GRIMM, 2021.
Ghosh, Amitav. Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban. New Delhi: Fourth Estate, 2021.
Tovey, Russell, and Robert Diament. Talk Art, 118-119, 123. San Francisco: Chronicle, 2021.
Young, Edith. Color Scheme: An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture in Color Palettes, 37-38.
Hudson: Princeton Architectural Press, 2021.
2020
Relations: Diaspora and Painting, exh. cat., 184-188. Munich: Hirmer, 2020.
2016
Koller, Andreas (ed.). “Salman Toor and Hasan Mujtaba.” In Forming in the Pupil of an Eye, exh. cat.,
353-355. Fort Kochi, India: Kochi Biennale Foundation, 2016.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: PERIODICALS
2024
Agostini, Riccardo. “Is a Queer Biennale Really Possible?” Follow.Art, 23 May 2024, follow.art/insights/is-
a-queer-biennale-really-possible.
Allen, Brian T. "A New Paris Museum Shows the Best in Cutting-Edge Art." National Review, 4 April 2024.
Farago, Jason. “The Art of Turning Backward.” The New York Times, 25 April 2024, C1, C8.
Kennicott, Philip. “The Venice Biennale, World’s Preeminent Art Event, Is Alive Again.” The Washington
Post, 20 April 2024.
Luke, Ben. “Intimacy and Violence: ‘Foreigners Everywhere’ Explodes the Biennale Model.” The Art
Newspaper, 19 April 2024.
Ramazzina-Ghirardi, Ana Luiza. “No Ordinary Love: O papel do preceptor na midialidade.” Signo 49, no.
94 (January-February 2024): 23-34.
Wullschläger, Jackie. “Electric Influx of Ideas.” Financial Times/ FT Weekend, 20-21 April 2024, 11.
2023
Bowen, Jared. “Salman Toor’s Colorful Art Depicts Queer Love in Uncertain Times.” GBH News, 20
December 2023, www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Fy2gwQ1HU.
Cain, Amina. “Fantasy Home: The Consoling Power of Salman Toor’s Blurred and Dreamy Paintings of
Domestic Scenes.” Financial Times, 25 April 2023, propertylistings.ft.com/propertynews/new-
york-united-states/7090-fantasy-home-the-consoling-power-of-salman-toors-blurred-and-dreamy-
paintings-of-domestic-scenes.html.
Chaudhry, Rida. “Salman Toor Explores Intimacy & Care.” Queen’s Journal, 24 March 2023,
queensjournal.ca/story/2023-03-22/visual/salman-toor-explores-intimacy-and-care-0/.
Daly, Meg. “No Ordinary Love.” American Art Collector, no.218 (December 2023): 34-39.
Dozier, Ayanna. “Vanguard Spotlight: Salman Toor’s Museum Milestone in Asia.” Artsy, 19 January 2023,
artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-vanguard-spotlight-salman-toors-museum-milestone-asia.
“Salman Toor.” Extra Extra, no. 20, 2023, cover, 185-198.
“Salman Toor: Paradise City.” AGNI, no. 97, 2023, cover, 89-98.
Stansfield, Ted. “C’est la vie.” The Leopard, no. 2, 2023, 86-115.
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Terrenzi, Mikey. “No Ordinary Exhibition at the Rose.” The Justice, 5 December 2023,
thejustice.org/article/2023/12/no-ordinary-exhibition-at-the-rose.
Tripathi, Utkarsh Mani. “Netflix’s First Pakistan-Themed Original Series Credits the Country’s Cultural
Renaissance to the Tenacity of Art.” Vogue India, 25 August 2023, vogue.in/content/netflixs-first-
pakistan-original-series-credits-the-countrys-cultural-renaissance-to-the-tenacity-of-art.
Wise, Louise. “Toor de Force.” Financial Times HTSI, 25 February 2023, 32-35.
2022
Aditya, Harsh. “Aesthetics of Dissent.” Elle India 28, no. 4 (August 2022): 42-43.
Almeida, Gabriel. “Salman Toor and the Clown.” Caesura, 22 September 2022,
caesuramag.org/posts/salman-toor-and-the-clown-gabriel-almeida.
“’Between Cultures’: 10 Things to Know about Salman Toor.” Christie’s Magazine, 3 November 2022,
christies.com/features/living-between-cultures-salman-toor-12501-1.
Bhutto, Fatima. “Superheroes, Jazz, Queer Art: How Pakistan’s Transgressive Pop Culture Went Global.”
The Guardian, 19 December 2022, theguardian.com/culture/2022/dec/19/pakistan-art-pop-
culture-joyland-ms-marvel.
Brooks, John. “In Conversation: Salman Toor with John Brooks.” Strange Fire, 24 October 2022,
strangefirecollective.com/2022-features#/in-conversation-salman-toor-with-john-brooks/.
"It's 9P.M. In... ." T: The New York Times Style Magazine, 4 December 2022, 99.
Marius, Marley. “An Enthralling Exhibition in Newport Puts the Full-Length Portrait in Focus.” Vogue.com,
15 July 2022.
Moffitt, Evan. “Salman Toor.” Atticus, Acne Paper no. 17, Autumn-Winter 2022.
Molesky, David. “Salman Toor: From Pakistan with Love.” Juxtapoz, no.220 (Winter 2022): 84-91.
Ross, Laurence. “Emerald Encounters: Salman Toor at the BMA.” Bmore Art, 17 August 2022,
bmoreart.com/2022/08/emerald-encounters-salman-toor-at-the-bma.html.
Tomkins, Calvin. “Becoming Modern: How Salman Toor Left the Old Masters Behind.” The New Yorker, 8
August 2022, 16-22.
Wong, Ella. “Side by Side: Xinyi Cheng and Salman Toor.” Art Asia Pacific, 28 September 2022,
artasiapacific.com/ideas/side-by-side-xinyi-cheng-and-salman-toor.
2021
Allen, Dan. “Queer Artists of Color Dominate 2021’s Must-See LGBTQ Art Shows.” NBC News, 7
February 2021, nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/queer-artists-color-dominate-2021-s-must-see-
lgbtq-art-n1256968.
Benson, Louise. “Ones to Watch: The Definitive Art Stars of 2021.” Elephant, 2 February 2021.
“Blurring the Lines between Public and Private: Salman Toor Interviewed by Cassie Packard.” BOMB
Magazine, 12 February 2021, bombmagazine.org/articles/blurring-the-lines-between-public-and-
private-salman-toor-interviewed/.
Delistraty, Cody. "Pakistani Artist Salman Toor's Success Was a Surprise Even to Him." The Wall Street
Journal Magazine, 16 January 2021.
Fateman, Johanna. “Living Histories.” The New Yorker, 27 December 2021, 9.
Fendrich, Laurie. “Salman Toor: There’s a boy I know.” Two Coats of Paint, 9 January 2021.
Goldstein, Caroline. “‘It’s Fabulous but Also Pathetic’: Watch Salman Toor Pair His Paintings of Queer
Life With Vermeers for an Unlikely Show at the Frick.” Artnet.com, 18 November 2021.
Gural, Natasha. “A Queer Gaze Emerges as Contemporary Art Hangs Alongside Old Masters at Frick
Madison.” Forbes.com, 30 September 2021.
Haynes, Suyin. “100 X Next: Salman Toor: Subverting Expectations.” Time 197, nos.7-8 (March 1/ March
8, 2021): 87.
“In the Studio With…Salman Toor.” Apollo Magazine, 16 December 2021, apollo-magazine.com/in-the-
studio-with-salman-toor/.
“Inside My Collection: Rob and Eric Thomas-Suwall.” Artsy, 4 June 2021, artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-
inside-collection-rob-eric-thomas-suwall.
Irish, Anni. “Painter Salman Toor Depicts Contemporary Queer Life. Observer, 22 February 2021,
observer.com/2021/02/salman-toor-whitney-museum-queer-life/.
Lubow, Arthur. “Changing the Perspective.” W Magazine, 30 November 2021.
Manzella, Sam. “Meet the Logo30: Salman Toor.” New Now Next, 15 June 2021,
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newnownext.com/logo30-salman-toor/06/2021/.
Mirza, Quddus. “Dreams of Reality.” The News on Sunday, 7 February 2021,
thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/785541-dreams-of-reality.
Molarsky-Beck, Marina. “Painting Here and Now.” Texte Zur Kunst, 22 January 2021,
www.textezurkunst.de/articles/marina-molarsky-beck-painting-here-and-now.
Murphy, Peter. “Salman Toor: How Will I Know.” Brooklyn Rail, February 2021,
82-83.
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Packard, Cassie. “Wake Forest Students Select Works by Salman Toor and Zanele Muholi for School’s
Art Collection.” Hyperallergic, 13 May 2021.
Rizvi, Nafisa. “Brown Boy Knowing.” Artemisia: Art in Pakistan, 12 January 2021,
artemesiaartinpakistan.com/brown-boy-knowing.
Romack, Coco. “Friends Who Inspire Each Another.” T: The New York Times Style Magazine, 18 April
2021, cover, 74.
Schwartz, Sanford. “Young and in Love.” The New York Review of Books, 8 April 2021, cover, 34.
Stoilas, Helen. “Contemporary Paintings Will Hang with the Frick’s Old Masters in New Contemporary Art
Series.” The Art Newspaper, 27 September 2021, theartnewspaper.com/news/contemporary-
paintings-will-hang-with-the-frick-s-old-masters-in-new-contemporary-art-series.
Trouillot, Terence. “The Top 10 Shows in the US of 2021.” Frieze.com, 16 December 2021.
Wilkin, Karen. “Salman Toor at the Whitney.” The New Criterion 39, no. 7 (March 2021): 44-47.
Wolin, Joseph R. “Telling Details: The Painted Life of Salman Toor.” Border Crossings, no. 156 (May
2021): 106-111.
Wu, Rosy. “Manifestos for a New Era.” Harper’s Bazaar Taiwan, no. 373 (March 2021): 82-83.
2020
Angeleti, Gabriella, Jose da Silva and Gareth Harris. “Three Online Exhibitions Honouring Pride Month.”
The Art Newspaper, 26 June 2020, www.theartnewspaper.com/news/three-projects-honouring-
pride-month.
Barbakadze, Nini. “Salman Toor: How Will I Know You.” Metal Magazine, 27 August 2020,
metalmagazine.eu/en/post/article/salman-toor.
Barbosa, Mariana. “A vida como ela é.” Harper’s Bazaar Brazil, no. 98 (September 2020): 76-77.
Cascone, Sarah. “Editor’s Picks: 19 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, Artnet, 10 November 2020,
news.artnet.com/art-world/editors-picks-november-9-1919346.
Chakraborty, Rohit. “Blending Out.” The Caravan, 1 April 2020, caravanmagazine.in/arts/salman-toor-
paintings-reveal-spectrum-queer-lives.
Cohen, Alina. “Salman Toor’s Intimate Paintings Are a Salve for Our Isolated Times.” Artsy, 3 April 2020,
www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-salman-toors-intimate-paintings-salve-isolated-times.
Colucci, Emily. “Now List 2020: Salman Toor Is Painting Queer Brown Life Into Art History.” Them, 17
June 2020, www.them.us/story/now-list-2020-salman-toor.
Crippa, Karim. "Radical and Radiant: These Five Artists Explore Queerness, Intimacy, and Tradition." Art
Basel, 1 December 2020, www.artbasel.com/stories/ovr-miami-beach-queer-voices-anne-imhof-
torey-thornton.
Fateman, Johanna. “Goings On About Town: Salman Toor.” New Yorker, July 6 & 13, 2020, 5.
———. “Salman Toor.” 4Columns, 4 December 2020, 4columns.org/fateman-johanna/salman-toor.
Felder, Rachel. “The Art of Conversation, and Vice Versa.” New York Times, 23 February 2020, AR16.
Fendrich, Laurie. “Salman Toor: There’s a Boy I Know.” Two Coats of Paint, 9 January 2021,
twocoatsofpaint.com/2021/01/salman-toor-theres-a-boy-i-know.html.
Gupta, Nidhi. “Pakistani-Origin, New York-Based Artist Salman Toor Wants to Paint a World Where the
East and West Harmonize.” GQ India, 12 March 2020,
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wants-to-paint-a-world-where-the-east-and-west-harmonise.
Howe, David Everitt. "Cosmopolitan Other: Salman Toor." Mousse Magazine, no. 72, (Summer 2020): 92-
95.
Kumar, Rahul. “16 Shows You Need to Visit This Summer for the Best of South Asian Art.” Vogue India,
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Lagambina, Greg. “Salman Toor.” Flaunt, 28 September 2020, flaunt.com/content/salman-toor.
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December 2020, hyperallergic.com/604818/salman-toor-how-will-i-know-review.
Loos, Ted. “A Different Point of View.” New York Times, 11 March 2020, F26.
———. “In Pandemic, Art Adapts.” New York Times, 21 June 2020, F8.
Mirza, Quddus. “Zones of Displacement.” The News on Sunday, 7 June 2020,
www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/668366-zones-of-displacement.
Nechamkin, Sarah. “Painter Salman Toor Draws Out the Strength in Sissies.” Interview, 6 January 2020,
www.interviewmagazine.com/art/painter-salman-toor-queer-paina-paintings-sissies.
Plagens, Peter. "‘Salman Toor: How Will I Know’ Review: A Contemporary Painter’s Poignant Scenes."
Wall Street Journal, 19 December 2020.
“Queer Artists and Thinkers We Should Be Celebrating Year-Round.” Cultured, 15 August 2020.
Rees, Lucy. “On Our Radar: Salman Toor.” Galerie, no. 19 (Fall 2020): 28.
Roberts, Cleo. “’Form & Figure: Bodies of Art’ at Grosvenor Gallery.” FAD Magazine, 22 June 2020,
fadmagazine.com/2020/06/22/form-figure-bodies-of-art-at-grosvenor-gallery/.
———. “Salman Toor’s Visual Autofiction.” Ocula, 22 December 2020.
Selvin, Claire. “Rising Star Salman Toor Joins Luhring Augustine Ahead of Whitney Museum Show.”
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1202691189/.
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www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jun/10/the-best-online-lgbt-exhibitions-for-pride-month.
Selvin, Claire. “Rising Star Salman Toor Joins Luhring Augustine Ahead of Whitney Museum Show.”
Artnews, 15 June 2020.
Shchurenkov, Alexander. “Dance of Time.” Kommersant, no. 38 (3 December 2020): cover, 24-27.
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C7.
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Toor, Salman. “The Artists’ Artists: Doron Langberg.” Artforum 59, no. 3 (December 2020): 72.
Trembley, Nicolas. “Les rêveries queer de Salman Toor.” Numéro, 2 June 2020,
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trembley-stereotype-new-york-peintre#.
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www.art-agenda.com/features/364886/salman-toor-s-how-will-i-know.
Wally, Maxine. “For Salman Toor, Art Functions as an Anti-Anxiety Practice.” W Magazine, 16 March
2020, www.wmagazine.com/story/whitney-museum-salman-toor-how-will-i-know-studio-visit/.
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2019
“12 Incredible Group Shows to See in New York This Summer.” Galerie Magazine, 3 July 2019,
www.galeriemagazine.com/gallery-shows-this-summer/.
Angelos, Ayla. “’I Wanted to Be as Good as the White Old Masters’: Meet Painter Salman Toor.” It’s Nice
That, 7 November 2019, www.itsnicethat.com/articles/salman-toor-art-071119.
Faisal, Talal. “Ghost Stories, Friendship and Intimate Settings.” The Friday Times, 3 May 2019,
www.thefridaytimes.com/ghost-stories-friendship-and-intimate-settings.
Henry, Joseph. “Love and Loneliness: Queering Modernisms in Figurative Painting.” Momus, 1 August
2019, momus.ca/love-and-loneliness-queering-modernisms-in-figurative-painting/.
Malone, Tyler. “Doron Langberg and the New Queer Intimism.” Jewish Currents, Fall 2019.
Mizra, Quddus. “Of Life and Other Demons.” The News on Sunday, 21 April 2019,
www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/567619-life-demons.
Moffitt, Evan. “The Shows to See During New York Pride.” Frieze, 21 June 2019,
frieze.com/article/shows-see-during-new-york-pride.
Pegues, Micah. “Interview with Salman Toor.” Polychrome Mag, 11 February 2019,
www.polychromemag.com/blog/salman-toor-interview.
Rehman, Khadijah. “Green Dreams and Reveries: ‘New Paintings’ by Salman Toor at the O Art Space,
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Lahore.” Youlin Magazine, 14 April 2019, www.youlinmagazine.com/article/green-dreams-and-
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vision/salman-toor-ePM6CLmDOVI/
Stewart, Chris. “’Them’ Gallery Exhibition.” Gayletter, 2019, gayletter.com/them-gallery-exhibition/.
Tafoya, Harry. “Finding Both Comfort and Challenge in the Idea of ‘Home’.” Hyperallergic, 2 July 2019,
hyperallergic.com/507202/finding-both-comfort-and-challenge-in-the-idea-of-home/.
Tenzer, Harrison. “The New Canon: 7 Queer Painters Who Are Tapping into the History Books.” Cultured,
20 June 2019, www.culturedmag.com/new-figurative-painting-2019/.
Tirado, Fran. “7 Queer Artists Who Are Breaking the Industry Standard.” Out, 28 April 2019,
www.out.com/art/2019/4/28/7-queer-artists-who-are-breaking-industry-standard#media-gallery-
media-4.
Vogel, Maria. “Salman Toor Disrupts Old Attitudes of Gender and Race.” Art of Choice, 10 December
2019, www.artofchoice.co/salman-toor-disrupts-old-attitudes-of-gender-and-race/.
Yerebakan, Osman Can. “Claiming a Seat at the Table.” L’Officiel, 20 June 2019,
www.lofficielusa.com/art/claiming-a-seat-at-the-table.
2018
“Self-Censorship Has Always Been There in the Subcontinent: Salman Toor.” Herald, 10 March 2018,
herald.dawn.com/news/1154032.
Yerebakan, Osman Can. “Salman Toor’s New Art Exhibition Is a Breathtaking Vision of Queer Intimacy.”
Them, 30 October 2018, www.them.us/story/salman-toor-time-after-time.
2017
Alvares, Jovita. “In Conversation with Salman Toor.” Art Now, 2017,
www.artnowpakistan.com/salmantoor/.
Khawaja, Nusrat. “Boom Time Boys.” Newsline, November 2017,
newslinemagazine.com/magazine/boom-time-boys/.
Mizra, Quddus. “The Architect of Images.” The News on Sunday, 29 October 2017,
www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/564267-architect-images.
Shuraka, Violet. “Studio Visit with Salman Toor.” Cheap & Plastique Magazine, 14 March 2017.
2016
Kalra, Vandana. “My Home is a Memory.” Indian Express, 18 December 2016,
indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/artists-at-the-kochi-muziris-biennale-2016-
frame-the-idea-of-home-and-away-4431564/.
2015
“Artnet Asks: Salman Toor, Painter of Modern Life.” Artnet.com, 1 December 2015.
Shuraka, Violet. “Studio Visit with Salman Toor.” Cheap & Plastique, 10 July 2015,
cheapandplastique.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/studio-visit-with-salman-toor/.
Vasvani, Bansie. “Painting the Imagined Space Where East and West Harmonize.” Hyperallergic, 30
November 2015, hyperallergic.com/257346/painting-the-imagined-space-where-east-and-
west-harmonize/.
2014
Mizra, Quddus. “A View with Two Rooms.” The News on Sunday, 2 November 2014,
www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/557369-a-view-two-rooms-salman-toor-exhibition.
Naqvi, Hassan. “Salman Toor: Using His Canvas to Alter Reality.” Express Tribune, 28 February 2014.
2013
“Salman Toor: The Happy Servant.” Wall Street International Magazine, 24 May 2013,
wsimag.com/art/3327-salman-toor-the-happy-servant.
2012
Hughes, Isabella E. “Stop, Play, Pause, Repeat.” Art Asia Pacific, 2012,
Toor 10
artasiapacific.com/Magazine/WebExclusives/StopPlayPauseRepeat.
Muhammad, Sehba. “Lawrie Shabibi Showcases Emerging and Mid-Career Pakistani Artists.” Blouin
Artinfo, 18 October 2012.
2011
Mahmud, Salma. “Salman Toor: The Painter Who Celebrates Kitsch.” Spectrum Tribune India, 18
December 2011, www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20111218/spectrum/main1.htm.
2010
Ahmed, Hammad. “Pakistani Painters.” Studio 360 (radio broadcast), 7 May 2010,
www.pri.org/stories/2010-05-07/pakistani-painters-0.
COLLECTIONS
Aïshti Foundation, Jal El Dib, Lebanon
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Courtauld Gallery, London, England
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
M Woods Museum, Beijing, China
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal, Canada
Pinault Collection, Paris, France
Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Tate, London, England
Wake Forest University Art Collection, Winston-Salem, NC
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
