Dawn Chan
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Dawn Chan is a senior lecturer at Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies and a freelance writer who has frequently contributed to the New York Times. You can also find her journalism, criticism, and essays in ArtReview, the Atlantic.com, Bookforum, the New Yorker.com, New York Magazine, the Paris Review, Spike Art Magazine, and the Village Voice. The recipient of a Thoma Foundation art writing award in digital art and a Warhol Arts Writers Grant, she also formerly wrote for
Dawn's writing has been anthologized in volumes ranging from Science Fiction (Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2020) to Intersubjectivities, vol. 4 (Sternberg Press, forthcoming) to Best, Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts (Paper Monument, 2021). She has written essays for catalogs and publications put out by the Sharjah Biennial, Taipei Biennial, and the Okayama Arts Summit. She has guest-lectured at RISD, MICA, NYU, SAIC, and the Guggenheim Museum symposium "Technology is History." With friends and former colleagues, Dawn is also working on November, an editorial project launched in 2020 featuring long-form interviews on art, media, politics, and architecture. |
Selected Work
The Mormon Transhumanists
NewYorker.com (2016) Review: Night Journey, a Video Game by Bill Viola
Artforum (2018) "An Artist's View of Hazing Rituals, Haunted by Tragedy"
The New York Times (Dec 2020) Review: Sondra Perry
The Village Voice (Feb 2018) Review: Aki Sasamoto
Artforum (May 2015) Catalog Essay: Beverly Fishman
Miles McEnery Gallery (2018) Review: Thiago Rocha-Pitta
Artforum (Summer 2017) Critic's Pick: Bryon Kim
Artforum.com (Jan 2017) Review: Wong Ping
The New York Times (Aug 2021) A Summer School for Mathematicians Fed Up with Gerrymandering
NewYorker.com (Aug 2017) The AI That Has Nothing to Learn from Humans
Atlantic.com (Oct 2017) The Year in Video Games
Artforum.com (Dec 2014) |