A New York–based writer, Dawn Chan frequently contributes to The New York Times. She has also published in ArtReview, the Atlantic, Bookforum, The New Yorker.com, New York Magazine, the Paris Review, Spike, and The Village Voice, as well as Artforum, where she was an editor in the 2010s. As an editor, she has also worked as an assistant editor in the publications department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Dawn’s writing has been anthologized by Whitechapel/MIT Press, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, ITI Press, and Paper Monument, and her essays appear in monographs on Beverly Fishman, Luis Gispert, Ai Weiwei, and Matthew Wong, as well as in publications put out by the Okayama Art Summit, the Taipei Biennial, and Hyundai Artlab.
Formerly a visiting scholar at NYU’s Center for Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement, Dawn has been a speaker at the Guggenheim Museum, Triple Canopy, NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2019–2020, as part of a CCS Bard team led by Lauren Cornell, Dawn was one of the co-curators of the exhibition Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future at the Tai Kwun museum in Hong Kong, co-presented by CCS Bard. The recipient of a Warhol Arts Writers Grant, a Thoma Foundation Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, and a Fulbright Fellowship, Dawn currently also works on the editorial team for November, a publication launched in 2020 featuring long-form interviews with thinkers on art, media, and politics.