Born in Lahore and based in New York, the painter Salman Toor depicts the lives of queer South Asian men in imagined surroundings that draw as much from Old Masters as they do from the modern metropolis. Toor’s scenes often seem casual – his figures dance at house parties and stare into smartphones – but are meticulously composed. They are often awash in shades of emerald, as if his subjects are being glimpsed underwater or inhabiting some otherworldly space. His first solo museum show, ‘How Will I Know’, took place at the Whitney in New York in 2020–21; later in 2021 he exhibited Museum Boys at the Frick: a spectral, dreamlike painting made in response to two Vermeer paintings in the museum’s collection. Since then, he has had solo shows in Baltimore and Honolulu, and his first solo show in Europe is opening at the Courtauld Gallery in October 2026.