Tina Takemoto

Tina Takemoto is a visual studies scholar and performance artist whose work explores issues of race, illness, queer identity, memory, and grief. Her current work explores the LGBT experience of the Japanese American Incarceration Camps during World War II. She has presented artwork and performances internationally and has received grants funded by Art Matters, James Irvine Foundation, and San Francisco Arts Commission.

Her articles appear in Afterimage, Art Journal, Performance Research, Radical Teacher, Theatre Survey, Women and Performance, and the anthology Thinking Through the Skin (Routledge, 2001). She is a board member of Queer Cultural Center and co-founder of Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts. On occasion, she makes guerilla appearances as Michael Jackson and Bjork-Geisha.

Her teaching interests include contemporary art, visual culture, performance art, Asian American visual culture, queer art and theory, postcolonial studies, and theories of illness, trauma, and grief.