Salman Toor: Someone Like You opens at the Courtauld Gallery in London on Friday 2 October.

Marking Toor's first solo museum exhibition in Europe, the presentation brings together 19 of the artist’s most iconic, thought-provoking, and at times humorous paintings. Representing people in shared moments of friendship and love, as well as experiencing solitude and alienation, Toor explains that the works, “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”.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a display of Toor’s drawings in the Courtauld’s Gilbert & Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery, showcasing his mastery of drawing and its importance to his artistic practice. It is also accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with text contributions by Richard Meyer, Aziz Sohail, and exhibition curator Elena Crippa.

Salman Toor
Someone Like You

2 October 2026–10 January 2027

Courtauld Gallery
Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 0RN