Jeannine Tang is an art historian who writes about contemporary art, queer and trans visual culture, curatorial and exhibition history. She has published widely in such venues as Artforum, Art History, Art Journal, GLQ, journal of visual culture, and Theory, Culture & Society, in addition to numerous exhibition catalogues and anthologies. Prior to joining The New School as a professor of art history at Eugene Lang College, she taught art and curatorial history between 2010-2019, at the graduate program of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. In 2018, with Lia Gangitano and Ann Butler, she co-curated the exhibition “The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983–2004)” at the Hessel Museum of Art, and is co-editor of the accompanying book. She is at work on a book on contemporary art and profiling, and a project on Julia Scher’s queer surveillance installations of the 1990s. Current research and teaching also includes ambient and sonic forms, land and climate in Asia; queer and transgender histories of art and care; and visual cultures of the British penal code in South and Southeast Asia. 

In Antiprofile: Art, Personhood and Information Since the 1970s, Jeannine examines how artists working in the U.S. navigated expanded opportunities and risks arising from the acquisition and distribution of information, by adopting profiling techniques from artist biography, cultural demographics, governmental FOIA files, or by evading informational documentation altogether. Bringing together early information studies and contemporary art utilizing diagrammatic, visual, literary, and criminal characteristics of information profiling, this book offers an account of critical art practice upon the onset of the information age’s societies of control.