Salman Toor
Born in Lahore, Pakistan, 1983
Lives and works in New York NY
Education
M.F.A. Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY, 2009
B.F.A. Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware OH, 2006
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Salman Toor: New Paintings and Drawings, M WOODS, Beijing, China
Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD [travelled to: Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham MA]
2021
Salman Toor: Music Room,Hayward Gallery Billboard, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, England
2020
How Will I Know, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
2019
Salman Toor: I Know a Place, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India
New Paintings, O Art Space, Lahore, Pakistan
2018
Time After Time, Aicon Gallery, New York NY
2017
Short Stories,Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
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 Centre, Hampshire College, Amherst MA
Group Exhibitions
2024
Spirit House, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford CA
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, 60th 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
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
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 [travelled to: Kiran
Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India]
2022
Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths, Aïshti Foundation, Jal El Dib, Lebanon
16th Biennale d’Art Contemporain Lyon: Manifesto of Fragility: A World of Endless Promise, URDLA,
Villeurbane, France
16th Biennale d’Art Contemporain Lyon: Manifesto of Fragility: The Many Lives and Deaths of Louise Brunet, MAC Lyon, Lyon, 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
2021
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
2020
Relations: Diaspora and Painting, PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal, Canada [travelled to: 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
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
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
Public 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 Centre, 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 Centre, Minneapolis MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
Awards
2019
Painters and Sculptors Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation
