Art History from Home: / Salman Toor: How Will I Know Thurs, Jan 14, 2021, 12 pm

Art History from Home:
Salman Toor: How Will I Know

Thurs, Jan 14, 2021
12 pm

A painting of a bar lit in green light filled with people dancing, kissing, checking their phones, and drinking.
A painting of a bar lit in green light filled with people dancing, kissing, checking their phones, and drinking.

Salman Toor, Bar Boy, 2019. Oil on plywood, 48 × 60 in. (121.9 × 152.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from John Auerbach and Ed Tang 2020.119. © Salman Toor. Image courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York

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Learn more about the work of Salman Toor whose first museum solo exhibition, Salman Toor: How Will I Know, is currently on view at the Whitney. Toor’s intimately scaled figurative work of imagined vignettes references historic styles while conveying the vulnerability and sense of community in queer, diasporic identity and the artist’s own lived experience. 

Xin Wang is a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum and a Ph.D. candidate in modern and contemporary art at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. She is the curator of numerous exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Her latest writings have appeared in Art in America, Art Agenda, and Wallpaper (Chinese edition). She is currently planning an exhibition that explores Asian Futurisms for The Museum of Chinese in America in New York City.  


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