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Tina Takemoto is an American artist and associate professor of visual studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Takemoto's work explores issues of race and queer identity. She has presented work internationally, and received numerous grants for her work, notably from ART Matters, the James Irvine Foundation and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Her film  Looking for Jiro  received Best Experimental Film Jury Award at the Austin LGBT International Film Festival, and opened MIX 24: New York’s Queer Experimental Film Festival

Takemoto also writes articles for Afterimage, Art Journal, GLQ, Performance Research, Radical Teacher, Theatre Survey, Women and Performance,  and the anthology  Thinking Through the Skin. Takemoto is the board president of the Queer Cultural Center and co-founder of Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts.

Education
BA, University of California, Berkeley; MFA, Rutgers State University of New Jersey; MA, PhD, University of Rochester

Work
Her work examines issues of race, queer identity, memory, and grief. Her current project explores the hidden dimensions of same-sex intimacy and queer sexuality for Japanese Americans incarcerated by the US government during World War II.