Biography

Zulkhairi Zulkiflee (b. Singapore) is an artist-curator based in Singapore. His lens-based artworks unpack the structures of his Malay identity in relation to local and global contexts, particularly through the racialized body as a conduit.

Zulkhairi earned a Master of Fine Arts in Art at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts at the LASALLE College of the Arts. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Nanyang Technological University’s School of Art, Design and Media (NTU ADM).

He has shown in exhibitions like Worldly Dis-position, Heaven Gallery, United States; certain places, Comfort Station, Chicago, United States; SG Contemporary, Gajah Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia (2023); Der Greif: Past & Present, Munich, Germany (2023); Vantage Point Sharjah 10, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2022) and Expo 2020, The Singapore Pavilion, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2022).

Zulkhairi was awarded the IMPART Awards (2020), the Objectifs’ Curator Open Call (2019) and was an artist resident of the Chow and Lin mentorship list (2019) and NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore Residencies Programme (2023-2024).

Profile photo by Billy Tucker.