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 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, and the International Association of Art Critics United States Section (AICA USA).
In 2013, he founded the Rail Curatorial Projects which aims to curate exhibits that respond specifically to location, cultural moment, and economic conditions. Recent exhibits include Bloodflames Revisited at Paul Kasmin Gallery, Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior at Red Bull Studios (2014), Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable and Unreasonable Sized Paintings at Mana Contemporary and SVA Chelsea Gallery (2015), and Hallway Hijack at 66 Rockwell Pl., Brooklyn (2016). Forthcoming projects include An Anthology of The Brooklyn Rail Interviews, Volume I to be published by David Zwirner Books in Spring 2017, and Occupy Rail, a two part endeavor to both encourage and support motivated individuals to create their own Rail publications in their local communities, and to stage the Rail’s production cycle of one issue on site at a selected art gallery for one month, turning the Rail into a “social environment,” a consequential step since Joseph Beuys’ “social sculpture” and Nicolas Bourriaud’s “relational aesthetics.”
