Justin Loke (b. 1979, Singapore) is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. He is the director of Vertical Submarine, an art collective acclaimed for their interdisciplinary projects that blend art installation, painting, theatre and curating, focusing on storytelling through words and images. Loke’s notable achievements include receiving the JCCI Japan Foundation Arts Award in 2009. He was the creative director and writer for the Singapore Night Festival 2022’s 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. Recently, he completed an artist residency and exhibition at Points Center for Contemporary Arts in Shanghai-Suzhou, organised by the Troy Foundation (London), curated Creative Intersections: Traces of Dragons at Funan Mall, and 8-Bit Word Cloud, a public art installation for National Art Gallery of Singapore’s Light to Night Festival for Singapore Art Week 2024. Vertical Submarine has earned numerous awards. These include The President’s Young Talent Award (Singapore, 2009), The Celeste Prize (New York, 2011), and a finalist position for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize (Hong Kong, 2015). Featured in ROUNDTABLE: The 9th Gwangju Biennale, the work is distinguished by its distinctive visual narrative style that has garnered international recognition and acclaim.