Selected Writings / Interviews / Press
WRITINGS
Sangram Majumdar: Choreographed Gestures, essay for the exhibition catalogue somewhere elsewhere, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, published by Jak Printers, Mumbai, 2024
Abir Karmakar’s Invisible Eye, curatorial essay for the exhibition catalogue Nightjar: Abir Karmakar, Aicon Contemporary, New York, 2023
Dear Maya: An Epistolary Curatorial Essay, curatorial essay for the exhibition catalogue Maya Varadaraj: No Feeling is Final, Aicon Contemporary, New York, 2023
A Scream, A Growl, artist pages published in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas journal, Volume 8: Issue 1-2 (May 2023): Imagining an Interval: Towards a Potential Asian and Diasporic American Art History(ies), edited by Grace Yasumura and Z. Serena Qiu, 2023
Artist entry for Alex Anderson in Clay Pop, exhibition catalogue for Jeffrey Deitch, published by Rizzoli New York; edited by Alia Dahl, 2023
Alex Anderson and Michael Stamm, press release for Deli Gallery, New York, 2022
The Persistent Colonial Gaze: Tipu’s Tiger, Then and Now, featured essay, Arcade Project Zine, 2020
The Self as Cipher: Salman Toor’s Narrative Paintings, curatorial essay for the exhibition, Salman Toor: How Will I Know, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2020
20 Years of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, Archival Alchemy exhibition catalogue, the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, 2017
Curatorial Narrative, FIELD MEETING Take 4: Thinking Practice, IBRAAZ Journal for Contemporary Visual Culture in North Africa and the Middle East, 2016
Introduction to Welcome to what we took from is the state, exhibition catalogue essay, the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, 2016 [digital copy not available]
INTERVIEWS
Curating South Asian Voices With Care, interview with the South Asian Institute, Chicago, April 2021
PRESS
South Asian childhood seen through a lens of metaphor and play, in ‘Power/Play’ at Twelve Gates Arts, review by Vriddhi Vinay, Artblog, Philadelphia, May 13, 2024
Magical and visceral, 12 Gates Arts embraces ‘A Space for Monsters,’ review by Corey Qureshi, Artblog, Philadelphia, March 5, 2021
Salman Toor: From Pakistan with Love, interview with Salman Toor by David Molesky, Juxtapoz Magazine, Winter 2022
How Salman Toor Left the Old Masters Behind, artist profile by Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, August 1, 2022
Salman Toor at the Whitney, review by Karen Wilkin, The New Criterion, March 2021
Salman Toor’s ‘How Will I Know’ Exhibition At Whitney Museum Is A Homecoming For The ‘Other’, feature by Nahal Amouzadeh, WNET: All Arts, February 23, 2021
Painting Here And Now, review by Marina Molarsky-Beck, Texte Zur Kunst, Jan. 22, 2021
Pakistani Artist Salman Toor's Success Was a Surprise, profile by Cody Delistraty, Wall Street Journal, Jan. 16, 2021
Salman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds, review by Roberta Smith, The New York Times, Dec. 23, 2020
Salman Toor's Visual Autofiction, exhibition review by Cleo Roberts, Ocula, December 22, 2020
Salman Toor’s “How Will I Know”, review by Murtaza Vali, e-flux Criticism, December 4, 2020
Cosmopolitan Other: Salman Toor, review by David Everitt Howe, Mousse Magazine, June 30, 2020
Goings On About Town: Salman Toor, essay review by Johanna Fateman, New Yorker, July 6 & 13, 2020
Three online exhibitions honouring Pride Month, feature by Gabriella Angeleti, José da Silva and Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper, June 26, 2020