Writer, Artist, Friend
Simon Wu is a writer and artist born in Myanmar and raised in Philadelphia. His writing has been published in The Paris Review, Bookforum, The Drift and The New Yorker. His first book, “Dancing On My Own,” was published in 2024. He has organized exhibitions and programs at the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, MoMA and David Zwirner, among other venues. In 2021, Wu was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant and was featured in Cultured magazine’s Young Curators series. He was a 2018 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and is currently in the Ph.D. program in history of art at Yale University. He has two brothers, Nick and Duke, and loves the ocean.