Phong Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator and former curatorial advisor at MoMA PS1, 2007 to 2010. He is also the Co-Founder, Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of the monthly journal, the Brooklyn Rail, and the publishing press, Rail Editions, as well as the Host/Producer of “Off the Rail” on Art International Radio. He is a board member of the Third Rail of the Twin Cities, the Miami Rail, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Walentas/Walsh Sharpe Foundation, and the International Association of Art Critics United States Section (AICA USA). He is currently teaching graduate seminars in M.F.A. Writing and Criticism and M.F.A. Photography, Video, and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts.
In 2013 he founded the Rail Curatorial Projects, which aims to curate group and one-person exhibits that respond specifically to location, cultural moment, and economic conditions. Recent exhibits include Bloodflames Revisited at Paul Kasmin Gallery, Migration to the Interior at Red Bull Studios (2014), Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable and Unreasonable Sized Paintings at Mana Contemporary and School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery. Forthcoming projects are: An Anthology of The Brooklyn Rail Interviews, Volume I, and Occupy Rail, an endeavor to encourage and support motivated individuals to create their own Rail publication in their local communities.
Followed by dinner in the Ranch Café, $20
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