Salman Toor
Salman Toor’s sumptuous and insightful figurative paintings depict intimate, quotidian moments in the lives of fictional young, brown, queer men ensconced in contemporary cosmopolitan culture. Toor playfully engages the history of European painting, particularly certain Baroque, Rococo, Romantic, and Impressionist masters with whom he shares an aesthetic kinship; he disrupts entrenched attitudes toward gender and race prevalent within this tradition by introducing elements of fantasy, humor, and cultural hybridity.
Toor’s work oscillates between heartening and harrowing, seductive and poignant, inviting and eerie. In many of his paintings, he creates subtly disarming depictions of familiar idealized environments in which often-marginalized bodies flourish safely and in comfort. In other pieces, Toor creates allegorical spaces of waiting, anticipation, and apprehension; border crossings into a world that may or may not be welcoming. Central to his work are the anxieties and the comedy of identity. In creating his figures, he employs and destabilizes specific tropes in order to reflect on the way difference is perceived by the self and by others. As Whitney curators Christopher Lew and Ambika Trasi have noted, Toor’s project is one that examines “vulnerability within contemporary public and private life and the notion of community in the context of queer, diasporic identity.” Furthermore, in depicting the mundane and the memorable moments of his characters’ lives, Toor reveals a deeply relatable existence, ultimately creating an opportunity for empathy through the language of painting.
Toor was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1983 and currently lives and works in New York. He studied painting and drawing at Ohio Wesleyan University, and received his MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Salman Toor: How Will I Know, the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition, will open at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York when the museum resumes programming. Toor’s work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including most recently Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Xenia: Crossroads in Portrait Painting, Marianne Boesky, New York; Them, Galerie Perrotin, New York; Are You Here?, the Lahore Biennale 2018, Pakistan; and the 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India. Recent solo shows include I Know a Place at Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India; New Painting at O Art Space in Lahore, Pakistan; and Time After Time at Aicon Gallery, New York, NY. Upcoming exhibitions include Relations: Diaspora and Painting, Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal, Canada; A Story With No End: A conversation with timeless treasures from Xinjiang, M Woods, Beijing, China, and an upcoming Public Art Fund project, New York. Toor is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and his work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Tate, London, UK; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Kate Fowle
Kate Fowle is the director of MoMA PS1. She was appointed in 2019 after six years as the inaugural chief curator of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, and director-at-large at Independent Curators International, New York. During her tenure at Garage, she oversaw the institution’s transition from art center to internationally recognized, public-facing museum, establishing new infrastructure and developing departments of exhibitions, archives, education, public programs, performance, publishing, research, development, and communications. Ms. Fowle also worked closely with Rem Koolhaas and OMA to oversee the design and opening of Garage’s first 56,000-square-foot Museum building in 2015.Ms. Fowle’s curatorial projects at Garage included exhibitions and commissions with David Adjaye, John Baldessari, Sammy Baloji, Louise Bourgeois, Marcel Broodthaers, Olga Chernysheva, Urs Fischer, Rashid Johnson, Irina Korina, Robert Longo, Andrei Monastyrsky, Anri Sala, Taryn Simon, Juergen Teller, and Rirkrit Tiravanija, among others. In 2014 she established Field Research, the first research-oriented program in Russia for artists, and in 2017 she established Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art.Ms. Fowle’s recent writing includes catalogue texts on Rasheed Araeen, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Ari Marcopoulos, Sterling Ruby, Althea Thauberger, and Qiu Zhijie. She has authored three books—Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo (2016); Exhibit Russia: The New International Decade 1986–1996 (2016); and Rashid Johnson: Within Our Gates (2016)—and established a number of publications series, including Perspectives on Curating, featuring Terry Smith (2012/15) and Zdenka Badovinac (2019), and the Artists Sourcebook, featuring Martha Wilson (2011), Allen Ruppersberg (2014), and Apichatpong Weerawesethakul (2016).
From 2009 to 2013, Ms. Fowle was the executive director of Independent Curators International (ICI). She led the organization out of deficit and transformed it into the largest global network for curators. She also founded ICI’s signature program, the Curatorial Intensive, the first itinerant, short-term international professional training program for curators. Previously, Ms. Fowle was the inaugural international curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing from 2007 to 2008 and chair of the Master’s Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, which she cofounded in 2002. Before moving to the United States, Ms. Fowle was codirector of Smith + Fowle in London. From 1994 to 1996 she was curator at the Towner Art Gallery and Museum in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
Conversation with the Critics
Johanna Fateman is a writer, art critic, and owner of Seagull salon in New York. She writes art reviews regularly for the New Yorker and 4Columns, and she is a contributing editor for Artforum. She is a 2019 Creative Capital awardee and currently at work on a novel.

Seph Rodney, PhD was born in Jamaica, and came of age in the Bronx, New York. He is the opinion editor and managing editor for the Sunday edition for Hyperallergic, and writes on visual art and related issues. He has also written for The New York Times, CNN Op-ed pages, American Craft Magazine and NBC Universal, and penned catalog essays for Joyce J. Scott, Teresita Fernandez, and Meleko Mokgosi. He can be heard weekly on the podcast “The American Age”. His book, The Personalization of the Museum Visit, was published by Routledge in May of 2019. In 2020 he won the Rabkin Arts Journalism Prize.
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Alex Greenberger is senior editor of ARTnews, where he began as an intern in 2013. His writing has appeared in the Village Voice, Artspace, and Architectural Digest, and his essays have appeared in catalogues for galleries. He runs a column on the ARTnews website called “The Browser,” which focuses on photographic, moving-image, and digital work, and his recent articles include coverage of calls by activists for accountability and transparency in New York museums, profiles of the artist Wu Tsang and the collective Forensic Architecture, an infographic about French collector François Pinault’s network, a ranking of Hito Steyerl’s videos, and a survey about diversity in exhibition programming at US institutions. He runs the “Retrospective” section on the ARTnews website, in which materials from the publication’s archives are republished regularly. A graduate of New York University’s art history and cinema studies departments, he wrote his undergraduate thesis on Bill Viola’s 2002 video installation Going Forth by Day, and he continues to maintain an interest in video art, film, photography, and net art. He can be found on Twitter at @alexgreenberger(where he posts memes about Steyerl and Louise Lawler, in addition to his articles) and on Instagram via the same handle (where he mainly just posts pictures of art). He is based in Brooklyn.
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2020 Chubb Fellows Exhibition
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2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition
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2020 Vision
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Click here to view the panel discussion from October 15, 2020 featuring co-curators David Kratz and Stephanie Roach with art patron Bernard Lumpkin and artists Tawny Chatmon, Taha Clayton, and Justin Wadlington.
Click here to view the panel discussion from November 12, 2020 featuring co-curators David Kratz and Stephanie Roach with Steve Mumford, Clifford Owens, Paine the Poet, and Pamela Sztybel.
The pain, loss and uncertainty of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
The awakening cry for social justice following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery and many others.
The unnerving possibility of global recession.
2020 has already experienced seismic events that are shifting values and shaping our choices as citizens and as creators.
Artists and writers are always the antennae of our society, all the more so at a time as challenging as this one. They have an opportunity—some might say, a duty—to interpret this moment and imagine the world not only as it is, but also as it could be.
This is the guiding challenge of the group exhibition, 2020 Vision. We asked artists, writers, and creative thinkers to consider three questions of critical importance: Our lives will never be the same, but what will change look like? What do we want to keep as we rebuild? And what must we guard against?
We invited these creators to express what they saw, what they felt, and what they experienced during this time of pause and reassessment, upheaval and risk, and anxiety and uncertainty.
It is our hope that 2020 Vision marks one of many beginnings in the necessary process of ‘post-traumatic growth’ and positive change for our society and our world.
Curators David Kratz and Stephanie Roach
Editor Emma Gilbey Keller
Participating Sponsor Douglas Elliman
Insurance generously sponsored by AXA XL
The New York Academy of Art will present “2020 Vision” at the Southampton Arts Center, co-curated by Academy President David Kratz and Stephanie Roach of the FLAG Art Foundation and edited by Emma Gilbey Keller.
“2020 Vision” takes as its subject the lived experience of our present, a time of social upheaval and unimaginable loss but also a moment of stirring change. The works in “2020 Vision” offer a glimpse of how creative minds are critically engaging with 2020, from Chris Wilson’s vibrantly colored painting of a Black funeral in Baltimore to Rachel Lee Hovnanian’s witty installation commenting on social distancing, with two computer monitors at opposite ends of a dinner table.
Notably, the exhibition encompasses not only visual artworks but a variety of texts, including poetry and essays from writers and thinkers reflecting on what 2020 means. Contributors include former US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, mass incarceration activist Paine the Poet and chef J. Kenji López-Alt. “2020 Vision” has over 60 participating artists and writers, and like many New York Academy of Art exhibitions, the show features work from current art students and young emerging artists hung alongside contemporary stars such as Eric Fischl and Rashid Johnson.
“2020 Vision” will be on view July 25 – December 27 at 25 Jobs Lane in Southampton and is supported by AXA XL, a division of AXA.
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- John Alexander
- Scott Avett
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- Amy Bennett
- Tim Buckley
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- Tawny Chatmon
- Kate Clark
- Taha Clayton
- Monica Cook
- Shiqing Deng
- Vincent Desiderio
- Peter Drake
- Richard Dupont
- Eric Fischl
- Audrey Flack
- Natalie Frank
- Elizabeth Glaessner
- Ramiro Gomez
- Andrae Green
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- Matthew Hansel
- Candace Hill
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- Nir Hod
- Rachel Lee Hovnanian
- Rashid Johnson
- Adam Lupton
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- Steve Mumford
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- Tim Okamura
- Clifford Owens
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- Adam Pendleton
- Luján Pérez Hernández
- Jean-Pierre Roy
- Bastienne Schmidt
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- Krista Louise Smith
- Pamela Sztybel
- Phillip Thomas
- Justin Wadlington
- Chris Wilson
- Frank Wimberley
- Alexi Worth
- Jiannan Wu
Contributing Writers:
Curtis Bashaw, Hotelier, Curtis’s Index
Thomas Dyja, Historian, New York, a City and a Community
Various Writers, idreamofcovid.com
Keionna Jackson, Operations Intelligence Analyst United States Air Force, The War: COVID-19
Julia Jordan, Playwright, Opening Night
David Kamp, Author & Journalist, The Siren Song of… Covid?
David Kamp, Author & Journalist, with Steve Porcaro, Singer & Songwriter, The Covid Kid
Emma Gilbey Keller, Author & Journalist, Shaved Heads in Lockdown
J. Kenji López-Alt, Chef & Food Writer, Deviled Egg Salad Sandwiches
Bernard Lumpkin, Art Patron, Inside Out
Vivek Murthy, 19th Surgeon General of the United States, Excerpt from Together
Wendy Olsoff, Gallerist, The Future of the Art Gallery
Paine the Poet, Poet, Crisis Journal
Sarah Paley, Poet, Bringing Back the Dead and Eastertide 2020
Brynne Rebele-Henry, Poet & Author, Looking Forward
Stephen Roach, Economist, The Quality Imperative
Brooke Shields, Actress, A Life in a Day
Douglas Unis, Surgeon, Stay Home…if you don’t want an orthopaedic surgeon treating you for pneumonia!
David Kratz is a painter and the President of the New York Academy of Art. In 2008, he received an MFA from the Academy, where he focused on figurative art and won the Vasari Prize for best-in-show painting at the MFA Thesis exhibition. Kratz has shown in group exhibitions at the New York Academy of Art, Lodge Gallery, Sotheby’s, and Eden Rock Gallery in St. Barth. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Boston University School of Law, Kratz has served on the boards of Citymeals-on-Wheels, the Lifelines Center, and the New Group, as well as helping to found One Day’s Pay. He became president of the Academy in 2009, and since then developed a new strategic plan, spearheaded a facilities renovation and expansion, and oversaw the Academy’s accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
Stephanie Roach has been the director of The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, since the institution’s founding in 2008, where she has developed and overseen more than sixty exhibitions with a range of guest curators, including those by Lisa Dennison, Jim Hodges, and Shaquille O’Neal, as well as in-house exhibitions featuring over six hundred established and emerging international artists. At FLAG, Roach curated One, Another (2011) and Space Between (2015), a co-curated exhibition with Louis Grachos. She is currently an Institutional Advisor for the Suzanne Deal Booth/FLAG Art Foundation Prize and was on the jury panel for the New York Academy of Art Seventh Annual Summer Exhibition in 2013. She has been a member of the Leadership Circle at The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania since 2009 and a member of the Contemporary Circle at The Jewish Museum, New York, since 2016. Roach graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005.
Emma Gilbey Keller is an author and a journalist. She has written two books, The Comeback: Seven Stories of Women Who Went From Career to Family and Back Again (2008) and The Lady: The Life and Times of Winnie Mandela (1994). She has been a contributing writer and a columnist for The Guardian, and her work has appeared in Slate, Vanity Fair and The New York Times among other publications. She lives in Southampton with her husband, Bill Keller.