Curriculum Vitae
Group Exhibitions
2024 :: Art of Materials (Fill 2024, 5050 2014)
Petaluma Art Center, Petaluma, CA
2024 :: Dialogues (Kaikei No Niji 2024)
SFArtsEd Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2023 :: Art @ SCP (Covers :: A Pandemic-Endemic Era Project 2020-2022)
Sonoma Clean Power, Santa Rosa, CA
2022 :: Essential Truths (dash(i), srsly, next 2020-2022)
Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2019-2020 :: Discovered: Emerging Artists of Sonoma County (s+oryprobl=m :: changed conditions 2019-2020, What portion? 2019)
Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA
2019 :: Instructions for Underground Movements (Philosophers’ Stone 2014, 5050 2014)
The Imaginists, Santa Rosa, CA
2018 :: 4 Women Artists (s+toryprobl=m :: 156 2018, s+oryprobl=m :: fragile vessels 2017)
Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg, CA
2017 :: Erotica Art (Oyster Piece 2017)
Seishin Studio, Santa Rosa, CA
2016 :: Black & White and Shades of Gray (Walk 2016)
O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2016 :: Aesthetic Blitzkrieg (Ad 2015, Behavior 2015, Ladies 2015)
Asian American Women Artists Association, San Francisco, CA
2016 :: 3/16 (Ad 2015)
Calabi Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
2015 :: Bay Area Women Artists (5050 2014)
O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2015 :: Under Pressure: printmaking in modern times (News 2014)
Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA
2014 :: BookWorks (FOG 2014)
Skylight Gallery, Main Library, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
2014 :: The Poetry of Printing (FOG 2014, A Printer on Printing in Print 2013)
RiskPress Gallery, Sebastopol, CA
2014 :: Invitational 8 (Relief 2014, A Printer on Printing in Print 2013)
Graton Gallery, Graton, CA
2013 :: The Art of Letterpress II (A Printer on Printing in Print 2013)
The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013 :: Roadworks (Masterpiece 2013)
San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
2013 :: ABZetcetera (A Printer on Printing in Print 2013)
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2013 :: Reverse Image (A Printer in Printing in Print 2013)
RiskPress Gallery, Sebastopol, CA
Grants/Awards
2019 :: Discovered Award for Emerging Visual Artists
Creative Sonoma and Community Foundation Sonoma County, Sonoma County, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2016 :: w[o]rdrobe
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Gallery II, Sebastopol, CA
2016 :: Visualization, a duo exhibition
Gallery 300, Santa Rosa, CA
2015 :: dress code(x)
The Spinster Sisters, Santa Rosa, CA
Installations / Activations / Objects
2022 :: maybe/possibly/perhaps (a zine, a dodecahedron, a hands-on making meditation)
Art Party 2022, Berkeley Commonplace at Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2021 :: Materia Prima (a streetroller linocut)
Nimbash, Nimbus Arts, St. Helena, CA
2020 :: 12 Steps to Free (a play / script / object)
Post-theater, The Imaginists, Santa Rosa, CA
2019 to 2020 :: s+oryprobl=m :: changed conditions (installation, activation)
Discovered: Emerging Artists of Sonoma County, Museum of Sonoma County, CA
2019 :: Creating New Traditions - One Cup At A Time (installation, activation)
Sukkah Studio, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2019 :: What portion? (letterpress print, activation)
Discovered: Emerging Artists of Sonoma County, Museum of Sonoma County, CA
2018 :: s+oryprobl=m :: 156 (installation, activation)
Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg, CA
2017 :: s+oryprobl=m :: alternate route (installation)
The Spinster Sisters, Santa Rosa, CA
2017 :: s+toryprobl=m :: 1461, alternate title s+oryprobl=m :: fragile vessels (installation)
City Hall Council Chambers, Santa Rosa, CA
Publications
2022 :: Uncommon Ground: BIPOC Journeys to Creative Activism (Circuitous Paths of the Yonsei essay and selected artworks, October 2022)
The fifth anthology of Write Now! SF Bay, Edited by Shizue Seigel
Supported by San Francisco Arts Commission. Made possible with support from California Humanities.
2022 :: Entanglements, a curated collection of contemporary culture (covers: a pandemic-endemic era project, 2020 thru 2022, October 2022)
Published by hunger button books, Editor Nanette Wylde
2021 :: Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color (Self Portrait With 9 Masks, 2020 and next Vol. 3, November 2020)
The fourth anthology of Write Now! SF Bay
Supported by San Francisco Arts Commission. Made possible with support from California Humanities.
2021 :: Talking to Strangers (Self Portrait With 9 Masks, 2020)
A project of Write Now! SF Bay
Supported by San Francisco Arts Commission. Made possible with support from California Humanities.
2020 :: MFA Never (s+oryprobl=m :: changed conditions 2020)
Exhibition Catalog, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2016 :: Uppercase Magazine (Featured)
Ad, from the dress code(x) project by C.K.Itamura
featured in Uppercase 29: The Book Arts Issue
2016 :: Celebrate Magazine (January/February)
Bay Area Book Arts, Photography by C.K.Itamura
Selected Collaborations
2024 :: Angels Set In Motion (album cover art)
Release date by Orbeatize (vinyl 2024) and Paleo Music (digital and CD 2024)
Music by Conrad Praetzel
2022-2023 :: Adventures Into Somethingness (Somethingness I, II, III & 4 album cover and CD disk art)
Released by Orbeatize (vinyl 2023) and Paleo Music (digital and CD 2022)
Music by Conrad Praetzel
2018 :: Cow Cow Voodoo (Music Video)
A collaboration with Clothesline Revival
Music and arrangement by Conrad Praetzel
Directed by C.K.Itamura
Artist-In-Residence
2024 :: Artist-In-Residence
San Francisco Unified School District Library Programs, San Francisco, CA
2023 :: Artist-In-Residence
San Francisco Unified School District Library Programs, San Francisco, CA
2022 :: Artist-In-Residence
In Cahoots Residency, Petaluma, CA
2021 :: Artist-In-Residence
Guest House Artist Residency, The Imaginists, Santa Rosa, CA
2019 :: Artist-In-Residence
In Cahoots Residency, Petaluma, CA
2018 :: Artist-In-Residence
Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg, CA
Curator / Juror
2020 :: Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Competition
Jurors C.K.Itamura et al
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2017 :: POP! The Power of Printmaking
Jurors C.K.Itamura, Michelle Wilson, Luz Marina Ruiz
Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA
2016 :: Look! Book Arts
Curator C.K.Itamura
Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA
2015 :: Downtown Connect, public art project
Selection Panelist C.K.Itamura
City of Santa Rosa, CA
2015 :: Congressional Art Competition
Jurors C.K.Itamura and Vicky Kumpfer
5th Congressional District, CA
2015 :: Under Pressure: printmaking in modern times
Curated by C.K.Itamura and Sue Labouvie
Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA
2015 :: The National Arts Program
Jurors C.K.Itamura and Vicky Kumpfer
City of Santa Rosa Parks & Recreation, Santa Rosa, CA
2015 :: Art of Gastronomy: a national juried exhibition
Exhibition Chairperson C.K.Itamura
Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA
Teaching Artist
2023 :: San Francisco Unified School District Libraries, SFArtsEd, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco Public Libraries, San Mateo County Libraries, San Mateo County office of Education and South San Francisco Unified School District via Young Audiences of Northern California, Youth Art Exchange, Gamble Gardens
2022 :: Book Arts Roadshow
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Mateo County Libraries, San Francisco Public Library, Gamble Gardens
2021 :: Book Arts Roadshow
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco Public Library, San Mateo County Libraries, San Mateo County Office of Education, South San Francisco Unified School District, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Sonoma Community Center
2020 :: Book Arts Roadshow
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco Public Library, Arts Ed Matters/Burlingame School District, Healdsburg Center for the Arts
2019 :: Book Arts Roadshow
San Francisco Public Library, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Mateo Public Libraries, San Francisco Public Library
2018 :: Book Arts Roadshow
Contemporary Jewish Museum
2017 :: Book Arts Roadshow
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Community Engagement
2023 :: Books in Boxes
Family ArtBash Sunday, Contemporary Jewish Museum
2022 :: Paper Puppet Theaters
Family ArtBash Sunday: Celebrate Imagination, Contemporary Jewish Museum
2019 :: The Typewriter Project
Contemporary Jewish Museum
2019 :: The Typewriter Project / Where To Here
A collaborative project with Andrea Guskin, StationSL
2018 :: The Typewriter Project
Contemporary Jewish Museum
2017 :: The Typewriter Project
Contemporary Jewish Museum
2017 :: Books for Children / Chronicle Books and Children's Museum of Sonoma County
2014 :: Head {Art} Shop / Cure Studio, Winterblast, South A Arts District
Press / Interviews
2021 :: Theater In The Woods (podcast, interview)
Episode 1, The Imaginists
2021 :: Sonoma Magazine (interview)
March/April 2021 Issue
2020 :: Shelter-In-Studio (artist talk)
Hosted by San Francisco Center for the Book
Live Zoom on Vimeo
2020 :: Social DistanZine (Presenter, JUSTICE tRUTHs 2020)
In Celebration of International Zine Month
Hosted by San Francisco Center for the Book & San Francisco Zine Fest
Live Zoom on Vimeo
2019-2020 :: Discovered: Emerging Artists of Sonoma County (Artist Talk)
Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA
2017 :: Whirligig (Interview)
An Interview with C.K.Itamura
Written by Nanette Wylde
2015 :: 428 Collective Salon
Presenting Artist C.K.Itamura, Healdsburg, CA
2015 :: Sonoma County Tourism Bureau (Interview)
Meet Sonoma County Artist C.K.Itamura
Sonoma County, CA
Affiliations
Current :: Founder & Publisher Kanreki Press
Current :: Co-Founder of Book Arts Roadshow
Current :: Creator of Collab Arts Lab
Current :: Artist/Director on the Board of Berkeley Commonplace
Current :: Artist-in-Residence of San Francisco Unified School District Library Department/SFArtsEd
Current :: Advisory Committee Member, Write Now! SF Bay
Past :: Artist Advisory Council Member of The Imaginists’ Guest House program
Past :: Director of Marketing & Events, San Francisco Center for the Book
Past :: Board Member, Healdsburg Center for the Arts
Past :: Managing Director / Production Manager / Stage Manager for live theatrical performances
Past :: Core Production Team member large scale live music, festivals and other event productions
Past :: Creator / Host / Engineer for radio shows
Past :: Script Supervisor for commercial and educational video production