Janine Biunno is a New York City based visual artist and archivist.

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Janine's art practice is centered on analyzing and interpreting the semiotics of the built environment. Her work explores the subjectivity of spatial perception, with focus on both the evident and intrinsic infrastructural systems and architectural constructions found in urban environments. Janine's work also addresses how our understanding of physical space is continually altered due to the increasing influence of the digital realm.

As an archivist, Janine's focus is on the complex collections of varied studio and professional materials belonging to artists, architects, designers, as well as cultural heritage institutions.

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Janine has attended residencies with the Frans Masareel Centrum in Belgium and ACRE in Wisconsin. She has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the International Print Center of New York, the Center for Book Arts in New York, Transmitter Gallery and Satellite Miami. Her work is in the collections of Tufts University Libraries, San Francisco Public Library, Monserrat School of Art, and has been selected for the flat files at Deanna Evans Projects (2022) and Tiger Strikes Asteroid (2018).

Janine received a B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University, M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston @ Tufts University, GCert. in Museum Studies from Tufts University, and M.L.S. from CUNY Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies.

Janine has lectured extensively and previously taught a graduate seminar at Pratt’s School of Information. After an 8 year tenure as the Director of Archives and Information Management at The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, Janine currently works at The Metropolitan Museum of Art where she heads the Museum’s Archives, which span over 150 years of institutional history.