Sara Ishii, Ph.D.

CURRENT POSITION

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Texas Woman’s University

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies, Rhetoric concentration, May 2018

Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX.

Dissertation: Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s “Art as a Mode of Research”: Applications in Feminist Research Methods and Feminist Rhetoric. 

Dissertation Advisor: Dr. AnaLouise Keating

M.A., Feminist, Gender, and Women’s Studies, October 2013

York University, Toronto, Ontario.

Thesis: “Unless she had implants, she must be Chinese”: A feminist analysis of players’ responses to representations of Chinese and Japanese female video game characters. 

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Jenson

M.F.A., Art and Technology, May 2006

University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX.

M.F.A. Exhibition: Making-up the Difference.

M.F.A. Exhibition Advisor: Professor John Pomara

B.A., Arts and Performance, magna cum laude, May 2004

University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

“Hallworks Exhibition.” Dallas Center for Contemporary Arts, Dallas, TX.  2007.

“Making-Up the Difference.” University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX. 2006.

“If the Shoe Fits, Sozo Salon.” Dallas, TX.  2005.         

“Ready Wear” Mezzanine Gallery, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX. 2004.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

4th Annual Small Works Show, Art Room, Fort Worth, TX 2020 (upcoming)

Adjunct Show.  500X, Dallas, TX. 2019.

Visual Arts Adjunct Faculty Exhibition.  Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX. 2019.

Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.  Nathan Philips Square, Toronto, ON. 2011

“Scapes.”  Propeller, Toronto, ON.  2011.

“Bad Acid.”  Propeller, Toronto, ON.  2009.

“Pix 2.”  University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX.  2008.

Group Show.  Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, TX.  2007.

“Ungrown.”  Flotsam Gallery, Dallas, TX.  2007.

“Reality Bytes.”  Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX.  2007.

“Inter-play.”  University of Guanajuato, Mexico.  2006. 

“Two Faced.”  Local Color Gallery, Dallas, TX.  2006. 

“OH6.”  500X Gallery, Dallas, TX.  2006. 

“Driver.”  Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX.  2006.

“New Texas Talent XII.”  Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX.  2005. 

“contextual.”  Oh 6 Art Collective.  Casket Factory at Southside on Lamar, Dallas, TX.  2005. 

“Mission Control.”  Oh 6 Art Collective.  Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX.  2005.

“A Friend in Deed.”  Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX.  2005. 

“Hooch & Pooch Gala Preview Party.”  Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX.  2005.

“Super 8.”  Oh 6 Art Collective.  Kennedy Gallery at Southside on Lamar, Dallas, TX.  2004.  “Well, Red.”  Oh 6 Art Collective.  Casket Factory at Southside on Lamar, Dallas, TX.  2004.

“New Texas Talent XI.” Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX.  2004.

“Human Interest.”  Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, TX. 2003. 

REVIEWS OF ARTISTIC WORK

Obrien, Titus.  “Reality Bytes: Dallas Contemporary”.  Artl!es, Issue 54, Summer 2007.

Pomara, John, “Artists Statements,” Inter-play Exhibition catalogue and essay.  September 2006. (photo pg 4).

Terranova, Charissa, “Drive by Booting,” Glasstire, January 2006.

Terranova, Charissa, “OH6 Art Collective: Mission Control,” Artl!es, Issue 52, Fall 2006.

Compton, JR, “Stories + Photographs,” Dallas Arts Revue, December 2005. (photo pg 2).

Terranova, Charissa, “Mission Control”, Dallas Observer, March 3-9, 2005.

Terranova, Charissa, “Super 8,” Dallas Observer, December 23, 2004.

Daniel, Mike, “Celebrating Artists with Promise,” Dallas Morning News, July, 21, 2004.

Big Bend Sentenial, Marfa Texas, page 7, June 19, 2003.

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund Award.  Dallas Museum of Art. May 2007.

Summer Show Critic’s Choice Award.  Dallas Center for Contemporary Art. May 2006.

PUBLICATIONS

“Epistemologies of Emotion: Explorations of Gloria Anzaldúa’s La Facultad and Jane Bennett’s Enchantment.”  El Mundo Zurdo 5. 2016.  Aunt Lute Books, pp. 161-169.

“‘Unless she had implants, she must be Chinese’: A feminist analysis of players’ responses to representations of Chinese and Japanese female video game characters.” Loading…Journal of the Canadian Games Studies Association. 8.13 (2014):81-99.