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Exploring human interactions, as well as the desire and struggle to experience a sense of belonging,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSalman Toor: Someone Like You\u003cspan\u003e (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e2 October 2026 – 10 January 2027) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003esheds fresh light on Toor’s work, addressing his manifold references and illuminating the crucial role that drawing plays in his practice as a painter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eSalman Toor is well-known for his vibrant paintings that represent people in shared moments of friendship and love, as well as experiencing solitude and alienation. The characters that populate Toor’s painting are fictional but rooted in personal experiences and memories. Toor says that his paintings ‘depict queer and immigrant lives that straddle different cultures and inhabit the tension between intimacy and exposure, belonging and estrangement. What it means to find a community, but also the daily costs associated with visibility.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eBorn in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1983, Toor trained in the United States. He currently lives and works in New York. He has had major exhibitions internationally, including his acclaimed first institutional solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2020–21). More recently, he participated in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2024). 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