Zihan is an artist and academic working at the intersections of critical theory and performance. His performance work has been commissioned by the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival (2012, 2015 and 2019), the Singapore International Festival of Arts (2016), and Esplanade Theatres on the Bay (2017). He won Best Multimedia Design for Manifesto (The Necessary Stage and Drama Box) at the Life! Theatre Awards (2017). Zihan was also awarded the Young Artist Award (2015) and an Arts Postgraduate Scholarship (2017) by the National Arts Council of Singapore.
Zihan has a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Art Institute of Chicago, where he was supported with a merit scholarship and a graduate fellowship. He subsequently received his Masters of Arts in Performance Studies from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. His scholarship at NYU was recognised with a Performance Studies Emerging Scholar Award (2018). He is a contributor to arts media website ArtsEquator and has penned a chapter for Queer Asia, an edited volume published by ZED Books in 2019. He commenced his PhD in Performance Studies in Fall 2019, with a research focus on distended gestures of performative dissidence over time in Singapore. More information about his work can be retrieved from www.loozihan.com.