Jeannine Tang
Assistant Professor
Jeannine Tang is an art historian who teaches as Assistant Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Jeannine’s writing on contemporary art, exhibition and curatorial histories, queer and trans cultures has appeared in venues such as Art Journal, Artforum, GLQ, Theory Culture & Society, journal of visual culture, Art India, anthologies including Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (New Museum & MIT Press, 2017) and exhibitions catalogues for museums, galleries and biennials. With Lia Gangitano and Ann Butler, Jeannine co-curated the 2018 exhibition The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004) at the CCS Bard Hessel Museum, and co-edited the accompanying book. Jeannine received a 2020 Warhol Writer's grant towards writing the book Living Legends: Contemporary Art & Trans* History.
Recent collaborative programs with the Singapore Biennale (2022) and Asia Art Archive in America (2023 -) have emphasized Asian/diasporic feminist, queer and trans* artistic and curatorial practices.
EDUCATION
National University of Singapore (B.A.)
Courtauld Institute of Art (M.A. and PhD)
AREAS OF ACADEMIC INTEREST
Art history (modern & contemporary), Queer and Transgender studies, Visual culture and cultural studies, Exhibition and curatorial history, and Environmental and ecological aesthetics