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

Dawn's writing on AI and its evolving relationship to culture can be found in the Atlantic.com, the New Yorker, and Bookforum, among other publications. Her subjects have included 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.

Currently teaching at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Dawn has received a Warhol Arts Writers Grant, a Thoma Foundation writing award, and a Fulbright Grant. Her essays have been anthologized in books ranging from Spectral Futures (Bloomsbury, 2026), to Science Fiction (Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2020) to Intersubjectivities, vol. 4 (Sternberg Press, 2026). 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 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. The hope is that the constraint will force experiments with weird, alternative modes of knowledge exchange that reduce carbon emissions but also keep things local. Read more here.