Phong Bui

In addition to fostering the creative energy behind The Brooklyn Rail, Bui publishes Rail Editions, a venture that features experimental poetry, fiction, artist interviews, and art criticism, and has published titles on artist Ron Gorchov, art critic Irving Sandler, poet Luigi Ballerini, and a collection of poems by Florbela Espanca, the first collection of the Portuguese modernist poet to appear in English.

[5][6] He has written articles for Matador Magazine, Art in America, and Riot of Perfume, among others,[7] as well as essays for exhibition catalogues and books on artists.

[14][15][16][17] In 2015, Bui organized a two-part exhibition entitled Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable and Unreasonable Sized Paintings taking place at both Mana Contemporary[18] and the SVA Chelsea Gallery.

[20] This exhibit included over 60 artists addressing social and political issues, including human rights and equality, immigration, foreign relations, the environment, and climate change, and continued Bui's curatorial activation of Peter Lamborn Wilson's concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone, "a space wherein the fluctuation of artistic energy establishes the flow of information, and in so doing aligns—however fleetingly—a great collective imagination.

Firstly in May 2019 as part of the Venice Biennale titled, Artists Need To Create On the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity To Destroy: Mare Nostrum, an exhibition co-curated with art historian and independent curator Francesca Pietropaolo.

[22] Bui served as curatorial advisor at MoMA PS1 from 2007 to 2010 where he organized monographic exhibitions of artists including Robert Bergman, Jonas Mekas,[23] Joanna Pousette-Dart,[24] Tony Fitzpatrick, Harriet Korman, and Jack Whitten,[25] and numerous group exhibitions including Irrational Profusion: Nicole Cherubini, Marc Leuthold, Joyce Robins, Peter Schlesinger[26] and Orpheus Selection: Nicola Lopez & Lisa Sigal.

In 2017, Bui was a member of the jury that selected Reem Fadda for the Menil Collection's Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement.