Born in 1918, Berkeley, California. Died in 1983, Chicago, Illinois.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
VeneKlasen Werner, Berlin
2006
Miyoko Ito: Paintings, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York
2004
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago
2000
Myoko Ito: Mistress of the Sea, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago
1999
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia
1992
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
1989
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1985
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1980
The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1978
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
1975
Kornblee Gallery, New York
1973
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
1971
The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1963
Gres Gallery, Chicago
Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois
1960
Superior Street Gallery, Chicago
1958
Stuart Brent Gallery, Chicago
1949
Palmer House Galleries, Chicago
1943
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1986
Realizations: Paintings by Pat Adams and Miyoko Ito, Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, Richmond
1980
100 Artists 100 Years: Alumni of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Centennial Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
The Art Collection of Sears Bank and Trust Company, Sears Bank and Trust Company, Chicago
1979
Chicago Currents: The Koffler Foundation Collection of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1978
Contemporary Chicago Painters, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
Chicago: The City and Its Artists 1945 - 1978, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
Chicago Abstractionists: Romanticized Structures, University of Missouri, Kansas City
1977
The Chicago Connection, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California
1976
Painting and Sculpture Today, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
1975
Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Illinois Artists 79: A Bicentennial Invitational Exhibition, Center for the Visual Arts Gallery, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
1974
The Chicago Style: Painting. Arts on the Midway Program., The University of Chicago, Chicago
1972
Chicago Imagist Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
American Women: 20th Century, Lakeview Center of the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois
1969
Thirty Works by Thirty Artists, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1967
Six Illinois Painters 67/69: Arcilesi, Ito, Lanyon, Paschke, Rosofsky, Wirsum, The Illinois Arts Council (travelling exhibition), Chicago
1965
Exhibition Chicago 80 Artists, Student Union, University of Illinois at Chicago, in the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1963
Group Exhibition, McCormick Place, Chicago
Group Exhibition, Gres Gallery, Chicago
1961
Miyoko Ito/Jerrold Ballaine, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1960
Midwest Painters Invitational Show, Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Tenth Annual National Exhibition, Sarasota Art Association and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
1959
Ravinia Festival Art Exhibit, Ravinia Festival Art Exhibition Committee, Ravinia, Illinois
Fourth Annual Exhibition, The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1958
1958 Art Exhibit of the Ravinia Festival, Ravinia Festival Art Exhibition Committee, Ravinia, Illinois
1957
62nd American Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1955
The 1955 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
1954
Artists of Chicago, 1020 Art Center, Chicago
1953
The 51st Annual International Exhibition: Watercolors-Prints-Drawings, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Exhibition Momentum Midcontinental, Wener’s Book Gallery, Chicago
1952
Sixteenth Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
1950
Momentum Nineteen-fifty, Bordelon Gallery, Chicago
1949
Artists League of the Midwest Members Exhibition: Painting Show, Mandel Brothers Art Exhibition Galleries, Chicago
1948
Room of Chicago Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Twelvth Annual Watercolor Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
1947
Representative Works by Chicago Artists, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago
1946-1977
Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (except 1953, 1955, 1958, 1963, 1966 and 1976)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Adrian, Dennis, Miyoko Ito: A Review. Chicago: The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, 1980
Artner, Alan. "Ito Paintings Weave Magic". Chicago Tribune (May 1 , 1980): 11-12
Barrie, Dennis. Oral Interview with Miyoko Ito at the Oxbow Summer School of Painting. Smithsonian Archives of American Art. July 20, 1978: 1-16
Blumenthal, Lyn and Kate Horsfield. Interview with Miyoko Ito. On Art and Artists series. Chicago: Video Data Bank/Art Institute of Chicago, 1978: 2-32
Frank, Peter. "Miyoko Ito". ARTnews (October 1987) 183-184
Gedo, Mary Matthews. "Abstraction as Metaphor: The Evocation Imagery of William Conger, Miyoko Ito, Richard Loving, and Frank Piatek" Arts Magazine (October 1982): 112-117
Glatt, Cara. "Ito Show Offers Visual Impact". The Hyde Park Herald (October 29, 1980): 7
Loving, Richard. "A Passionate Control". New Art Examiner (May 1985): 72
McCracken, David. "Ito Exhibit Shows Late Artist’s Sensitivity and Sure Touch." Chicago Tribune (December 23, 1988): 42
Pieszak, Devonna. "Miyoko Ito" New Art Examiner (May 1980): 18
Russick, David. "Miyoko Ito". Charlottesville: Fayerweather Gallery, The University of Virginia. 1986: 18-21
Sozanski, Edward. "Abstract Self". The Philadelphia Inquirer (February 19, 1999): 32
Upshaw, Regan. "Miyoko Ito at the Renaissance Society". Art in America 69 (January 1981): 133
Warren, Lynne. Art in Chicago , 1945-1995. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995
Wells, Daniel M. "One–Woman Show of Depth, Focus". Chicago Tribune (March 7, 1971)