Jeannine Tang
Assistant Professor
Jeannine Tang is an art historian from Singapore, who teaches as Assistant Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at NYU. Her writing on contemporary art, exhibition and curatorial history, 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, she 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, 2018, and is co-editor of the accompanying book.
Jeannine received a 2020 Warhol Writer's grant towards writing the book Living Legends: Contemporary Art & Transgender History, and is also working on projects involving artists such as Julia Scher, Shu Lea Cheang, Ellen Pau and Marla Bendini, among others. Recent collaborations 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