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, artistic director 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, the International Association of Art Critics United States Section (AICA USA), Anthology Film Archives, Studio in a School, among others.

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 Hallway Hijack (2016), Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable and Unreasonable Sized Paintings at Mana Contemporary and School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery (2015), Bloodflames Revisited at Paul Kasmin Gallery, Migration to the Interior at Red Bull Studios (2014), Forthcoming projects are: Tell Me Something Good: Artist Interviews from The Brooklyn Rail (David Zwirner Books, October 2017), and Occupy Rail, an endeavor to encourage and support motivated individuals to create their own Rail publication in their local communities. The Houston Rail and The LA Rail are in-the-making stages.