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, San Francisco Arts Commission, Andy Warhol Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Her articles appear in Afterimage, Art Journal, Performance Research, 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, gender and queer theory, Asian American studies, postcolonial theory, and theories of illness, trauma, and grief.