Isis Rodriguez is an American born artist from San Francisco California. She has been drawing since a child and received a B.F.A from the University of Kansas 1988 in Painting.  Afterwards, she attended the San Francisco Art Institute to work toward her M.F.A., where she studied sex positive feminism and art for social responsibility. She emerged into the art world, with a solo show was at Galeria de la Raza in 1997, called, "My Life as a Comic Stripper" where she created editorial cartoons to talk about the politics, the rewards and consequences of the sex industry from her experience working as an exotic dancing. After 11 years, she retired from dancing and continued to work as a performance artist and painter to explore feminine archetypes with performance artist, Guillermo Gomez Peña, "The Mexterminator Project", 1998, SOMA, San Francisco, CA USA., where she created a Zapatista Stripper, fighting for the rights of exotic dancers. In 2006, she exhibited, at Patricicia Correa Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA,  "Glyphtoons", which was a reflection of sex positive feminism.