Joleen Loh

Joleen Loh is a Curator at National Gallery Singapore. She researches post-war and contemporary art from Singapore and Southeast Asia, with an interest in the transnational movement of art and ideas, artistic exchanges between Britain and Singapore, feminism, and women’s artistic practices. Recent projects include Nothing is Forever: Rethinking Sculpture in Singapore (2022), Nervous City: Goh Beng Kwan (2021), and Suddenly Turning Visible: Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia (1969-89) (2019). She edited a publication on Singapore-born British sculptor and printmaker Kim Lim for The Artist Speaks series in 2022 and is currently working on a forthcoming retrospective exhibition of the artist in 2024. Joleen was also a teaching assistant in art history at the National University of Singapore from 2019 to 2021. Prior to joining the Gallery in 2015, Joleen was Curatorial Associate at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, where she assisted with developing its exhibitions and public programmes from 2012 to 2014. She received an MA in History of Art from University College London, which was supported by a National Arts Council postgraduate scholarship, and a BA in Art History and Asian Studies from the University of Melbourne, Australia.