A New York–based writer, Dawn Chan frequently contributes to the Arts Desk of the The New York Times. Her criticism and analysis also appears in *ArtReview, the Atlantic, Bookforum, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, the Paris Review, Spike, and The Village Voice. A former visiting scholar at NYU’s Center for Experimental Humanities, Dawn has been a speaker at the Guggenheim Museum, Metrograph, Triple Canopy, NYU, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Sharjah Biennial’s April Acts, among other venues. In 2019–2020, as part of a CCS Bard team led by Lauren Cornell, Dawn was a co-curator of Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future at Tai Kwun Museum. She also curated Ghost Bites, photographer Tommy Kha’s solo show at Baxter St. at CCNY in 2023.
Dawn’s essays have been anthologized in Intersubjectivity IV (Sternberg Press, 2026), Alternative Futures: Art as a Toolkit for Survival (University of Chicago Press / Intellect Books, 2026), Spectral Futures (Bloomsbury, 2025), and Science Fiction (Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2020), as well as in publications put forth by the Taipei Biennial, the Sharjah Biennial, the Okayama Art Summit, and Hyundai Artlab. She is the recipient of a Warhol Arts Writers Grant, a Thoma Foundation Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Her recent research focuses on Asian futurisms, East and Southeast Asian diasporic art practices, digital worldbuilding, transpacific studies, and climate justice.