Justin Loke

Justin Loke is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. He is the director of Vertical Submarine, an art collective based in Singapore.

Loke’s accolades include the President’s Young Talents Award (Singapore) and the Japan Foundation Arts Award in 2009. His works have been exhibited internationally at major institutions, museums, and biennales, including National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, Saatchi Gallery (London), Arter (Istanbul), Arndt Gallery (Berlin), and Richard Koh Fine Art (Singapore-Bangkok). He also participated in the 2012 Gwangju Biennale.

As a creative director and writer, he spearheaded the Singapore Night Festival 2022 highlight act, Cathay Hotel: The Curse of the Missing Red Shoe. In 2023, he curated Benchmarks, a placemaking initiative commissioned by the Civic District Alliance, and was selected for a residency and exhibition at the Points Center for Contemporary Arts in Shanghai-Suzhou, organized by the Troy Foundation (London).

Currently, Loke is the curator of Tran-Slates: Cultural Heritage Craft x Contemporary Design 2025-26 for the National Heritage Board (Singapore) and a participating artist in the 15th Bienal de La Habana – Shared Horizons 2024-25 (Havana).