Simon Chan is the Director of Art Atrium, an art gallery exhibiting contemporary Australian, Asian and Aboriginal art and also a practising architect and Director of SCA Architects. He holds several directorships and sits on various boards spanning the arts, multiculturalism, Chinese community and local government. In 2013, he was awarded the inaugural NSW Premier’s Multicultural Award for Arts & Culture in recognition of his work and expertise in this area.
Simon is a Director on the Board of VisAsia at the Art Gallery of NSW and a Council member of the Power Institute, Foundation for Art and Visual Culture at the University of Sydney. He is also a Board member of Multicultural NSW Advisory Board and a Director on the Board of Parramasala, an annual multicultural arts and culture festival. He is a Committee Member of the NSW Government Chinese Garden of Friendship Advisory Committee and an Executive Committee Member of Contemporary Asian Australian Performance. Simon is the President of the Haymarket Chamber of Commerce and member of the Woollahra Council Cultural Committee.