Dawn's writing on contemporary art often appears in the New York Times. You can also find her art criticism and journalism in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the Paris Review, Spike, and the Village Voice.

Dawn writes about AI and its evolving relationship to culture in publications such as the Atlantic.com, the New Yorker, and Bookforum. Her subjects include professional Go players in Korea facing unbeatable AI, books co-written by ChatGPT, the recurrent characters Alice and Bob in algorithmic design, prediction markets as conceptual art, and the depiction of high-tech Asian cities in art and visual culture worldwide.

A faculty member of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Dawn has received a Warhol Arts Writers Grant, a Thoma Foundation writing award, and a Fulbright. Dawn's essays and texts also appear in publications released by the Sharjah Biennial and the Taipei Biennial. As a speaker, Dawn has appeared at venues ranging from NYU and RISD to the Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, and Metrograph.

Occasionally, Dawn moonlights as a curator. 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.

These days, Dawn is taking part in a personal challenge to stay gainfully employed as an art critic without flying for work. Her hope is that the constraint will force experiments with weird, alternative modes of knowledge exchange that reduce carbon emissions and also keep things local. Instead of flying, she turns to doppelgängers, locally-based stringers, proxies, and, if all else fails, Zoom. to Read more here.