Dawn Chan

Dawn Chan is a New York-based writer and editor whose work appears in the Atlantic.com, Bookforum, New York Times, the New Yorker.com, New York Magazine, the Paris Review, and the Village Voice, among other publications. Dawn has also frequently written for Artforum, where she worked as an editor from 2007 to 2018.

Anthologized in volumes from Whitechapel/MIT Press, ITI Press, and Paper Monument, Dawn’s writing has also been recognized with a Thoma Foundation art writing award in digital art and a Warhol Arts Writers Grant.  Currently a visiting faculty member at CCS Bard, she is working with four other editors on November, an editorial project launched in 2020 featuring long-form interviews on art, media, politics, and architecture.

Relevant writing:

on Asian Futurism – https://www.artforum.com/print/201606/asia-futurism-60088

on Sondra Perry – https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/02/21/in-her-new-show-artist-sondra-perry-gets-in-the-game/

on Rachel Rossin – https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201601/rachel-rossin-56733

Relevant Curatorial:

co-curator – https://www.taikwun.hk/en/programme/detail/phantom-plane-cyberpunk-in-the-year-of-the-future/467

More writing here: dawnchan.com