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Howie Chen is the director and curator of 80 Washington Square East gallery at NYU. A founding director of Chen’s, a townhouse gallery in Brooklyn, he has held curatorial roles at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2001-2007) and MoMA PS1. He was also a director of Dispatch, a curatorial production office and project space in New York (2007-2011). His writings have been published by Primary Information and Badlands Unlimited and have appeared in magazines such as Artforum, Frieze, and Art in America. Chen is the editor of the anthology Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network 1990-2001 (Primary Information, 2021). He was recently on faculty at NYU Steinhardt School and has been a lecturer at the Art, Culture and Technology program at MIT, Parsons School for Design, and Rhode Island School of Design. Chen was a board member of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) and currently serves on the board of Primary Information.