Michiko Itatani (b. 1948, Osaka, Japan) is a Chicago-based painter. Itatani studied literature and philosophy in her youth before relocating to the US in the 1970's, where she studied visual art at the School of Art Institute of Chicago. She has shown paintings and installation work in a great range of exhibitions since 1973, and remains active as a prolific artist and professor emeritus at the Painting and Drawing department at the SAIC since 1979. Itatani currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.
Michiko Itatani's work has been shown in more than 100 one-person and group exhibitions locally, nationally, and internationally. The largest of these exhibitions were at Rockford Art Museum, Illinois (1987); Musée du Quebec, Canada, (1988); Chicago Cultural Center (1992); Tokoha Museum, Shizuoka, Japan (1998); Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany(2000); University of Wyoming Art Museum (2022-3), Wrightwood 659, IL (2022-3). Museum and institutional collections include the Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museu D’art Contemporani (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain; Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; and many more.
Itatani has received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Marie Sharp Walsh New York Studio Grant and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship among others. She was selected by the Women’s Caucus for a Lifetime Achievement Award 2020.
