Dawn Chan

Writer and curator Dawn Chan is a Senior Lecturer at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies, where she is also core faculty. Her criticism has appeared in ArtReview, The Atlantic, Bookforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review and Spike Art Magazine. A former editor at Artforum, she has also contributed to Science Fiction (Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2020) and exhibition catalogues for the Taipei Biennial, Okayama Art Summit and Hyundai Artlab. She has spoken at New York University, Rhode Island School of Design, Guggenheim Museum and Metrograph Cinema. Chan’s curatorial projects include Phantom Plane: Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2019–2020) and a solo exhibition of Tommy Kha’s work at Baxter St, Camera Club of New York (2023). In 2018, Chan received a Warhol Arts Writers Grant and the Thoma Foundation’s art writing award.