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LAHORE: Pakistani artist Salman Toor has been featured on the Time100 Next list, he announced on Instagram today (Thursday).
“Super excited to be included in TIME100 Next 2021 among emerging leaders who are shaping the future,” he wrote. The Time100 Next list highlights emerging leaders who are shaping the future.
The publication lauded Toor’s brilliance and wrote, “Toor, who was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and lives in New York City, has made his career subverting the styles of old paintings by centering openly queer men of South Asian descent in an attempt to, as he says in the audio guide for The Star, “play with the idea” of societal norms.”
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“Now more people than ever are paying attention: the artist recently secured his first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, which will be on display through April 2021,” it added.
He has had multiple shows both in Pakistan and abroad and was also part of the Lahore Biennale in 2018. Toor recently made headlines when he sold his painting in the United States at a staggering $822,000, probably the highest ever for a Pakistani artist.
Toor’s painting “Rooftop Party with Ghosts I” was sold at Christie’s post-war and contemporary art sale at the said price against an estimate of $100,000-150,000 on December 3, 2021.
