Salman Toor Age, Wiki and Bio

Quick Info

Profession	Artist
Nationality	American
Date of Birth	01/01/1983
Age	41 years
Birthplace	Lahore, Pakistan

Physical Stats & More

Height	175 cm
Eye Color	Black
Hair Color	Black

Educational Qualification(s)

School	Aitchison College, Lahore, Pakistan
College/University	Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware Ohio, United States; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
Educational Qualification	Bachelor's of Fine Art (Painting and Drawing), with Honors at Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware Ohio, United States (2006) Master of Fine Art (Painting) from The Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York (2009)

Personal Life

Date of Birth	1983
Birthplace	Lahore, Pakistan
Nationality	American
Hometown	Lahore, Pakistan

Relationships & More

Marital Status	Unmarried
Sexual Orientation	Gay
Affairs/Girlfriends	Ali Sethi

Family

Father	Name Not Known (businessman)
Mother	Name Not Known (homemaker)
Siblings	He has two younger siblings.
Spouse	N/A

Career

Theme & Style	Toor's art is primarily centered around themes like LGBTQ issues, how brown men are treated in society, the experiences of young people in both public and private places, and the impact of technology on our daily lives. His paintings touch upon a wide array of subjects, ranging from the history of art to queer culture and Post-Colonialism. In his paintings, he mainly uses the figurative art, featuring figures of skinny, undernourished, and hairy men. Some curators believe that the use of bright and saturated colours by Toor in his paintings evokes emotions in the viewers. He mainly uses green colour in his paintings and believes that the green colour brings the effect of nighttime and possesses a contradictory association with both toxicity and allure.
Selected Solo Shows	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 (2022-2024) Salman Toor: New Paintings and Drawings, M WOODS, Beijing, China; The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia (2022-2023) Salman Toor: Music Room, Hayward Gallery Billboard, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, England (2021-2022) How Will I Know, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2020-2021) Salman Toor: I Know a Place, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India (2019-2020) New Paintings, O Art Space, Lahore, Pakistan (2019) Time After Time, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY (2018) Short Stories, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan (2017) Salman Toor: Drawings from ‘The Electrician’, Honey Ramka, New York, NY (2015) Resident Alien, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY (2015) Close Quarters, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan (2014) The Happy Servant, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY (2013) I ♥ Kitsch, Rohtas II Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan (2011) New Paintings, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan (2010) Three Paintings, Kahlo Gallery, Lebrón-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA (2009)
Selected Group Shows	Capturing the Moment, Tate Modern, London, England The New York Century: 100 Years of Imagining New York, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY 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 Very Small Feelings, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India 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 Based on a True Story, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL Brave New World: 16 Painters for the 21st 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 Any Distance Between Us, RISD Museum, Providence, RI Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters, Frick Madison, New York, NY 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 Relations: Diaspora and Painting, PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal, Canada; Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada 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 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 Are You Here?, Lahore Biennale 2018, Lahore, Pakistan Go Figure, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India Wrech, Honey Ramka, New York, NY Cinephiliac: Art Transcending Technology and Motion, Twelve Gates Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Return of the Native, Rohtas II Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan Letters to Taseer II, Drawing Room Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan Stop, Play, Pause, Repeat, Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates All About Us, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan 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 Pratt in Lucca, Piazza del Anfiteatro, Lucca, Italy

Some Lesser Known Facts

Salman Toor is an American painter born in Pakistan, acclaimed for his LGBTQ-themed figurative paintings.
He discovered his love for drawing in his childhood and began painting at the tender age of five.
Toor often depicted pretty young women with flowing hair in his art, a preference that stemmed from his fondness for painting feminine figures since childhood.
In 2019, he held a solo exhibition at the Nature Morte Gallery in New Delhi, unable to attend due to strained India-Pakistan relations, where his works garnered praise when displayed later at a museum in India.
The Joan Mitchell Foundation awarded Salman Toor the Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2019.
In June 2021, his painting 'Girl with Driver' sold for $890,000 at the Phillips Auction House in Hong Kong, far surpassing its estimated price.
He is associated with the LGBTQ painter group 'New Queer Intimists.'
Toor draws inspiration from artists like Van Dyck, Peter Paul Rubens, Caravaggio, and Watteau.
Initially drawing ideas from Pakistani advertisements, he later shifted to deriving inspiration from ancient art forms like Baroque, Neoclassical, and Rococo periods.
Toor once found modern art dull and disheartening, opting to create modern versions of old portraits, landscapes, and scenes till the eighteenth century.
He breathes new life into figurative art and narrative by openly infusing queerness into his works, revitalizing the 1990s art style.
In 2023, rumours swirled about Toor's marriage to singer Ali Sethi, with Sethi clarifying they had not tied the knot despite their long-standing relationship since their school days at Aitchison College in Lahore.