Salman
TOOR

A young artist featured in the Pinault Collection, Salman Toor was born in 1983 and grew up in Lahore, Pakistan in a generally homophobic environment. Now a naturalised American citizen who lives in New York, his work explores vulnerability of one’s identity, duplication, and the anxiety or apprehension of the image one projects of oneself. He adopts a queer tonality to explore the desire and hopes specific to his own immigration story in paintings populated with characters that are both comical and tragic.