Simon Wu is an artist and writer involved in collaborative art production and research. Since 2017, he has served as a Curator and the sole Program Coordinator for Claudia Rankine’s Racial Imaginary Institute. He has held curatorial positions at MoMA, the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the New Museum and he has organized exhibitions and programs at David Zwirner, The Kitchen, and CUE Art Foundation, among other places. In 2021 his art writing was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant and he was featured in Cultured magazine's 2021 Young Curators series. He writes for Artforum, Bookforum, BOMB, frieze, and The Drift. In 2018 he was named the Van Lier Fellow in Curation by the Asian American Arts Alliance and in 2018-2019 he was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He will start a PhD in History of Art in Fall 2022 at Yale University and his debut collection of essays Dancing On My Own will be out with Harper Collins in 2024.