Dawn Chan is a writer who has frequently contributed to the New York Times. You can also find her writing in ArtReview, the Atlantic.com, Bookforum, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, the Paris Review, Spike Art Magazine, and the Village Voice. Currently a senior lecturer at Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies, Dawn has received a a Warhol Arts Writers Grant, a Thoma Foundation writing award, and a Fulbright Grant. She also formerly wrote for Artforum, where she worked as an editor in the 2010s.

Dawn's writing has been anthologized in books ranging from Science Fiction (Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2020) to Intersubjectivities, vol. 4 (Sternberg Press, forthcoming). Her essays and texts appear in publications released by the Sharjah Biennial, the Taipei Biennial, the Okayama Arts Summit, and the New School's Vera List Center. As a speaker, Dawn has appeared at venues ranging from NYU and RISD to the Guggenheim Museum and Metrograph.

Occasionally, Dawn also moonlights as a curator, though the curveballs of curating usually send her rushing back to the realm of the written word. She worked as one of five co-curators for "Phantom Plane: Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future" at Tai Kwun Museum in Hong Kong. Dawn also curated artist Tommy Kha's solo 2023 show at Baxter St. Camera Club, which received press in the Amp, AnOther, the British Journal of Photography, Cultured, and the Times.

With friends and former Artforum colleagues, Dawn is also working on November, an editorial project launched in 2020 featuring long-form interviews on art, media, politics, and architecture.