Cosmic Encounters

Michiko Itatani
New York Solo Debut

October 27th, 2023 - Extended through February 23rd, 2024

Storage
52 Walker Street
4th Floor
Tribeca, New York 10013

Storage is pleased to announce Cosmic Encounters, a monumental collection of complex, medium and large-scale paintings by the inimitable, Chicago-based painter Michiko Itatani (b. 1948, Osaka, Japan). An established Chicago arts icon, Itatani's impact is preceded by her history of artistic, philosophical, and community-driven accomplishments. Itatani’s oeuvre is long-established by her transcendent tendency for painterly techniques and symbolism. In this exhibition at Storage, Itatani’s range of work offers a dream-bound iconography of figurative and symbolic objects from the greatest extents of human curiosity. The first solo exhibition at Storage within our inaugural, ongoing exhibition series titled Press Release, Cosmic Encounters is also Itatani’s first solo exhibition in New York City after 30+ years.

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• Events

  Opening Reception
  6-8pm
  Friday, October 27th

  Storage Tribeca
  52 Walker St, 4th Fl, New York, NY 10013

• About Michiko Itatani

  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.