LOO Zihan
罗子涵
b. 1983 — Singapore
MFA 2011
Studio (Film, Video, New Media and Animation), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BFA 2009
Digital Filmmaking with a minor in Drama and Performance
Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media, Singapore
2011
Currents: From Singapore, in Macau, Macau International Performance Art Festival (Forthcoming)
Manhood: Masculinity, Male Identity and Culture, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
Abject Systems: Artists Who Love The Unlovable, Studio Bibliothèque, Singapore
Imagine Malaysia, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore
Shiftchanges, Defibrillator, Chicago, IL
Experiment #48: Magnetic Affinities and Altered Relations, Outer Space Studio, Chicago, IL
Tender Exchange, Next: Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, Art Chicago, IL
Touch then push or pull and maybe nothing, Defibrillator, Chicago, IL
Sexier, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
aWay, Boomerang Space, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2010
Stories of Relativity, Sullivan Galleries, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2009
Frozen Angels, M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, The Necessary Stage, Singapore*
Don’t Forget to Remember Me, The Necessary Stage, Singapore*
Past Carin’, The Necessary Stage, Singapore and the Tony Yap Company, Australia*
2008
Gemuk Girls, The Necessary Stage, Singapore*
*Multimedia Theatre Production, Multimedia Artist
2011
2nd Singapore Short Film Awards (Nominated, Best Experimental Film for Aemaer)
2010
1st Singapore Short Film Awards (Awarded, Best Script for Threshold)
7th Singapore Short Cuts, National Museum of Singapore
15th Chicago Asian American Showcase
1st Experimental Film Forum, Singapore
2009
Solo Focus Program (Showcase of 5 films), Democrazy Theatre Studio, Bangkok, Thailand
14th Pusan International Film Festival, South Korea
Experimental Film and Video Festival, Seoul, South Korea
5th InDPanda International Short Film Festival, Hong Kong
2008
23rd Turin GLBT Film Festival, Italy (Awarded, Best Debut Feature for Solos)
10th Deauville Asian Film Festival, France (Nominated, Best Feature Film for Solos)
5th Singapore Short Cuts, National Museum of Singapore
Frameline32, San Francisco LGBT Film Festival
NewFest, New York LGBT Film Festival
Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
22nd London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, United Kingdom
2007
American Film Institute Festival, L.A. (Nominated, Best International Feature for Solos)
21st Singapore International Film Festival (Nominated, Best Feature Film for Solos)
12th Pusan International Film Festival, South Korea
2011
James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2010
Best Script, 1st Singapore Short Film Awards for Threshold
Special Mention, Best Multimedia Artist, Life! Theatre Awards, Singapore for Frozen Angels
2009
Trustee Full-Tuition Merit Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Valedictorian (School of Art, Design and Media), Nanyang Technological University
2008
Awarded, Best Debut Feature Nuovi Sguardi Award, 23rd Turin GLBT Film Festival, Italy for Solos
2011
Lecturer, Time-based Media, Foundation Year
School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Teaching Assistant, Abandoned Practices: Summer Performance Institute
Lin Hixson, Mark Jeffery and Matthew Goulish, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Visiting Scholars: Jane Blocker and Daniel Sack
Teaching Assistant, Media Practices: Moving Image
Michele Fleming and Frederic Moffett, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Teaching Assistant, Graduate Seminar: Theory into Practice
Gregg Bordowitz, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Visiting Artists: Tony Cokes, Andrea Geyer, Ashley Hunt, and Yael Bartana
2010
Teaching Assistant, Directing Actors for Film and Video
Melika Bass, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Teaching Assistant, Graduate Seminar: Theory into Practice
Gregg Bordowitz, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Visiting Artists: Andrea Fraser, Glenn Ligon, and Paul Chan
2011
Artist Presentation, The Public Shaming of Loo Zihan
24th Singapore International Film Festival
Curated Mythic Reincarnations: The Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Filmmaker in Attendance)
Graduate Admission Review Panel – Film, Video, New Media and Animation Department,
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Visiting Artist Presentation, Performing Labor
Mark Jeffrey, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2010
Presented Toshio Mastumoto’s Funeral Parade of Roses at the IFC Center, New York City
as part of Queer/Art/Film Series. (Curated by filmmaker Ira Sachs)
2011
The Precession, performance collaboration with Mark Jeffrey and Judd Morrissey,
Hyde Park Art Center and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2009
Bondage, main lead in theatre production, Festival of Emerging Playwrights,
Dramabox, Singapore
2007
Pleasure Factory, lead in independent feature film, directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham,
premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 60th Cannes Film Festival