Salman Toor Courtauld 2026 means Salman Toor: Someone Like You, the artist’s first major European solo exhibition, at the Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, London, from Friday 2 October 2026 through Sunday 10 January 2027. The show gathers 19 paintings made since 2019—never before seen together in Britain—plus a companion drawings display. This ADVANCE Art guide locks dates, ticket floor, loans, and themes before the opening-week spike—without twinning our live Renoir National Gallery or Gemäldegalerie Portraits hubs.
Exhibition dates, tickets, and rooms
Item — Detail
Title — *Salman Toor: Someone Like You*
Venue — Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London
Paintings run — 2 October 2026 – 10 January 2027 (Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries, Floor 3)
Drawings — Same dates — Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery, Floor 1
Hours — 10:00–18:00 (last entry 17:15)
Tickets — Temporary exhibition from £16 (includes permanent collection); Members and under-18s free
Members preview — Thursday 1 October, 14:00–18:00
Lead support includes the Bukhman Foundation and the Salman Toor Exhibition Circle; media partners Another Man and Dazed. Catalogue edited by Dr Elena Crippa with essays by Richard Meyer and Aziz Sohail.
Who is Salman Toor?
Born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1983, Toor lives and works in New York. His figures are fictional but rooted in personal memory—queer and immigrant lives between intimacy and exposure, belonging and estrangement. Institutional milestones include Whitney’s How Will I Know (2020–21), Baltimore’s No Ordinary Love touring show, and a suite at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024). The Courtauld presentation is his first solo museum exhibition in Europe.
Themes and key works named by the museum
Courtauld materials highlight nightlife and belonging (The Bar on 13th Street, Bar Boy), border-control anxiety (Man with Face Creams and Phone Plug, Group B, Citizens), and Old Master / Mughal dialogues (Museum Boys, Ghost Ball from the Pinault Collection, The Joke). The Bar on 13th Street nods to Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère in the Courtauld’s own collection—an in-house conversation the museum foregrounds.
Major loans
Key loans come from the Whitney, Guggenheim, National Gallery of Art (Washington), Baltimore Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, the Pinault Collection, and private collections. The drawings gallery includes Fag Puddle in Vitrine (2021), acquired by the Courtauld in 2024.
People also ask: do I need a separate permanent-collection ticket?
Temporary exhibition tickets quoted from £16 already include entry to the permanent collection and displays. Courtauld Members and visitors 18 and under go free; other concessions apply—confirm live pricing on courtauld.ac.uk before travel.
Why ADVANCE now (spike ~2 October)
“Salman Toor Courtauld,” “Someone Like You exhibition,” and London October art-show queries climb hard in the final days before 2 October. A sourced dates-tickets-loans guide ranks ahead of listicle roundups that bury the Courtauld under larger Trafalgar Square neighbours.
Related Sunday Profile Art exhibitions
Deepen the Art exhibitions cluster with our live Renoir and Love National Gallery 2026 (https://www.thesundayprofile.com/renoir-and-love-national-gallery-2026) (opens 3 Oct across town) and Gemäldegalerie Portraits 2026 (https://www.thesundayprofile.com/gemaldegalerie-portraits-2026) (16 Oct Berlin)—October museum calendar pieces without twinning this Courtauld primary keyword.
Sources and caveats
2 Oct 2026–10 Jan 2027 dates, first Europe solo framing, 19 paintings since 2019, drawings display, named works, loan list, £16 ticket floor, members preview 1 Oct, and Crippa catalogue: Courtauld press release and exhibition page. Run-date corroboration: Sotheby’s / Art UK listings. Timed-entry inventory and concession codes can still change—recheck courtauld.ac.uk in the week of 2 October.