In Conversation: Salman Toor

Join artist Salman Toor for a virtual conversation with Dr. Gannit Anorki, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator of the Rose Art Museum and Professor of Fine Arts and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Focusing on paintings and drawings from Toor’s solo exhibition Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love, currently on view at the Rose Art Museum, the conversation will address the artist’s creative process and major themes that inform his work, among them, queer desire, intimacy, violence, the immigrant experience, and reconfigured art-historical genres.

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In Conversation: Salman Toor, 2024. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Salman Toor (b. Lahore, Pakistan, 1983) lives in New York. His first institutional solo exhibition, Salman Toor: How Will I Know, was presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY in 2020-2021. A major solo presentation of Toor’s work, recently on view at M Woods in Beijing in Winter 2023, will open at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Fall 2023. He has been featured in numerous group exhibitions and projects, including Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters at Frick Madison, New York, NY, and others held at the RISD Museum, Providence, RI; the Public Art Fund, New York, NY; Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Lahore Biennale 2018, Pakistan; and the 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India. Toor is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and his work is in many public collections.

This program was held in conjunction with the exhibition Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love, November 16, 2023–February 11, 2024.