15 Facts About Salman Toor

Salman Toor was born on 1983 and is a Pakistani painter based in the United States.

Salman Toor's works depict the imagined lives of young men of South Asian-birth, displayed in close range in either South Asia and New York City fantasized settings.

Salman Toor made pictures when he was a child, drawing his imaginary friends and scenarios.

Salman Toor then obtained his MFA degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 2009.

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

In 2019, Salman Toor was awarded a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.

In 2022, in an exhibition similar to that at the Frick, Salman Toor's works were placed in conversation with old master painting's from the museum's collection in the exhibition No Ordinary Love at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

Salman Toor's work is included in such museum collections as the Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Salman Toor has described that his work is concerned with various themes, such as the treatment of brown men and young people in public and private spaces and the role of technology in daily life.

In doing so, Trasi has written that Salman Toor aims to include brown men in the art historical canon that is often missing this representation.

Once he began to focus more on art, Salman Toor found inspiration in paintings from the Baroque, Neoclassical, and Rococo eras.

Specifically Salman Toor describes being inspired by Van Dyck, Rubens, Caravaggio, and Watteau.

Curators have noted Salman Toor's paintings make use of bright, saturated colors to evoke emotion.

Salman Toor illustrated Amitav Ghosh's 2021 book in verse, Jungle Nama.

Salman Toor's Whitney show sold almost entirely before opening to museum benefactors.