Michi Itami

Michi Itami (born 1938) is a visual artist, known for her printmaking, painting, ceramics and digital art. Her work has been exhibited internationally. She has had solo exhibitions at A.I.R. Gallery, New York; 2221 Gallery in New Delhi, India; Shinsegae Gallery in Seoul, Korea; Beni Gallery in Kyoto, Japan, among others. In 2004 Itami was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Woman's Caucus on Art.[1] She taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and at California State University, Hayward, and is Professor Emerita at City University of New York where she taught for over 20 years.[2] Itami received a BA in English Literature from UCLA in 1959; later studied at Columbia University in New York where she performed graduate work from 1959-1962 in Japanese and English literature, later receiving a MA degree in 1971 from the University of California Berkeley.[3] She was a member of Godzilla, an Asian American arts advocacy group.[4][5]

Michi Itami
Born1938
Los Angeles, California
NationalityJapanese American
EducationBA in English Literature, University of California Los Angeles,
Columbia University,
University of California, Berkeley
Known forprintmaking, painting, ceramics, digital media artist
AwardsNational Endowment for the Arts, 1981
Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2004

Early life

Itami and her family were sent to live in Manzanar a Japanese internment camp during World War Two.[6] Her father, Akira Itami, was the model for a character in Toyoko Yamasaki's 1983 novel titled "Futatsu no Sokoku", Two Motherlands.[7]

Awards, honors

Itami has received several awards and honors, among them a National Endowment for the Arts grant in printmaking, a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, and a Printmaking Fellowship in Asilah, Morocco.

Collections

Itami's work is included in numerous public and private collections including those at the Brooklyn Museum; San Francisco Legion of Honor Museum; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, Cincinnati Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.[8]

References
  1. "Honor Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts" (PDF). nationalwca.org. Women's Caucus for Art. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  2. Kort, Carol; Sonneborn, Liz (2014). A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 9781438107912.
  3. Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century. Routledge. ISBN 9781135638825. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  4. Chang, Andrea. "Interview with Margo Machida, Co-founder, Godzilla". Art Spaces Archives project. funded by National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  5. Cotter, Holland (August 14, 1998). "ART IN REVIEW; 'Urban Encounters' at the New Museum of Contemporary Art". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  6. Japanese Relocation Camp File Summary. "Michi Itami - Manzanar - WWII Internment Summary". japaneserelocation.org. WWII Internment Summary. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  7. Otake, Tomoko. "Tried to the limit and beyond". Japan Times. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  8. "Michi Itami – American, born 1938". Collection. Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 3 January 2017.



This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.