The fantasy of an unknown artist suddenly being discovered so rarely happens, but for Salman Toor, born in 1983 in Lahore, Pakistan, it became his reality. For over a decade or so, Salman had been creating paintings in NYC reflecting his experience as a queer, immigrant brown man when the moment arrived almost completely out of the blue—or green, in his case!
Unbeknownst to Salman, one of the curators at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Ambika Trasi, had been following Salman’s work for years. After seeing an exhibition of his newest batch of paintings, Ambika and her colleague asked to meet Salman. Several visits later, the curators invited him to produce a new body of works for a solo exhibition at the museum, with the caveat that the show be ready in just seven months. Ecstatically, Salman accepted this golden opportunity and rose to the challenge, swiftly creating powerful new works that so perfectly encompass the fundamentals of his oeuvre.
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Noelia Towers
Empathy and Enlightenment
Nehemiah Cisneros
Legend of a Wicked City
Joy Yamusangie
Primary Colors
rafa esparza
A Sense of Generosity
Eric Yahnker
The Serious Side of a Joke
Ivy Haldeman
Notions of Slippage
Timothy Lai
Painted Syncopation
Katherine Bernhardt
Everlasting Butter
Sabrina Bockler
Conversing From Within
The Burn to Rebirth
Valencia, Spain During Fallas