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Ms. Itatani’s work has been seen in more than 100 one-person and group exhibitions locally, nationally, and internationally. Large solo exhibitions were held at the Alternative Museum, New York City (1985); Rockford Art Museum, Illinois (1987); Musée du Quebec, Canada, (1988); Chicago Cultural Center (1992); University of Wyoming Art Museum, (2002); Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri (2003), and many others. Ms. Itatani is represented by the Flatfile Contemporary Gallery and Printworks Inc., Chicago, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, NYC, Geleria Senda, Barcelona and Galerie Bhak, Seoul. Her work has been included in numerous corporate, public, and private collections. These include The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Canada’s Musée du Quebec, and Barcelona’s Museu D’art Contemporani. She has been a professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1979. She has taught at many other institutions, including the Maine College of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, California State University, San Francisco Art Institute, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Bonn, Royal College of Art, China National Academy of Fine Arts, and Shizuoka University of Art and Culture. Ms. Itatani has received several fellowships and awards for her work including an Illinois
Arts Council Artist’s Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Marie
Sharp Walsh New York Studio Grant and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
She was awarded a “Distinguished Artist’s Membership” at the Union League Club
in 2004.
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Michiko Itatani was born and raised in Japan. In her
youth, she studied literature and philosophy and wanted
to become a fiction writer. Following her senior writer’s
advice, she decided to do something she had never done
in a place she had never been to before. She came to
Chicago in 1970 and studied visual art at the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago. She became an artist, and
started to show her paintings and installation work in
1973 and she has been active in the field ever since.