The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura&Hayama
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
The Hakone Open-Air Museum
Sapporo Art Park
Shimane Art Museum

1939

Born in Sapporo, Island of Hokkaido, Japan.

1962

Graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

1964

Tokyo Art Director's Club, Gold Award.

1965

Tokyo Art Director's Club, Silver Award.

1966

Tokyo Art Director's Club, Bronze Award.

1967

Mainichi Industrial Design Prize.

1968

Special Prize, 1st Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Kobe Biennale, Suma Detached Palace Garden, Kobe.
Contemporary Trends in Japanese Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
Contemporary Space-Environment and Light Exhibition, Kobe.
Contemporary Art of Japan, London.

1969

Honorable Award, 1st International Exhibition of Modern Sculpture, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone.
9th Contemporary Art of Japan Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art.
3rd Contemporary Sculpture of Japan Exhibition.
Electromagica '69, Sony Salon, Tokyo.

1970

Tokyo Art Director's Club, Bronze Award.
Asahi Press Award, 2nd Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Kobe Biennale,
Suma Detached Palace Garden, Kobe.
Planning and display design, EXPO'70, Osaka; The Japanese Government Pavilion.

1972

Special Prize, 3rd Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Kobe Biennale, Suma Detached Palace Garden, Kobe.
Graphic Image '72, Tokyo Central Museum of Art.

1973

Twenty Years of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Design Forum '73, Tokyo.
Graphic Image '73, Tokyo Central Museum of Art.
Grand Prize, 4th Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Kobe Biennale, Suma Detached Palace Garden, Kobe.
The Contemporary Sculptor 20, Tokyo Central Museum of Art.
Grand Prize, Grand prize the 2nd Exhibition, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone.
A View of Japanese Contemporary Art, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo.
Display design and production, EXPO'75, Okinawa; Mitsui Children's Science Pavilion.
13th Middelheim Biennale Exhibition, Antwerp, Belgium.

1976

US-JAPAN Conference for Culture and Educational Interchange, New York City.
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Award; Board of Education Award,
5th Contemporary Art of Japan Exhibition,, Kobe Biennale, Suma Detached Palace Garden, Kobe.

1977

"Kinetic Sculpture Exhibition" in Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe and Okayama.
Grand Prix Award, 3rd Exhibition, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone.

1979

Grand Prize, The 13th S.D.A Awrd.
Japan Style, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

1980

Development of Contemporary Sculpture in Japan, Kanagawa Prefecture Gallery.
A Contemporary Image Exhibition, Yamagata Museum of Art.

1981

Most outstanding Award, The 15th S.D.A Award.

1985

TAKAMICHI ITO Exhibition "Exhibition of Kinetic Sculpture in Tokyo, Fukuoka and Sapporo"

1986

"Locus on Earth and Sky", Sapporo Art Park, Sapporo, Hokkaido.
Kinetic Art: "Light-Dancing", San Diego, U.S.A.
Kinetic Art: "Airline" ANA Hotel Tokyo at Akasaka, Tokyo

1987

TAKAMICHI ITO Exhibition at Sapporo Art Park in Hokkaido.

1988

International Sculpture Exhibition, Brisbane, Australia.
High Technology Art Exhibition, Ta-chai City Museum, Ta-chai, Taiwan.

1989

The 1st International Biennale in Nagoya, ARTEC 89, Nagoya.
Directed planning and design of the Tokyo Sea Life Park, Kasai, Tokyo.
Urayasu Centenary Monument, Urayasu, Chiba.

1990

Sculpture: "Wind & Surface of Water "Toyako Sculpture Park, Hokkaido.
Gate Monument: "Light Gate", NEC, Mita, Tokyo.
Kinetic Art: "Galaxy", MBS Osaka Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc., Osaka.

1991

Kinetic Art: "Stream-Encounter-Light", Shimane.
Designed the structure bearing the flame for the Sapporo Winter World Student Games.
Outstanding Award, Japan Display Design.

1992

Sculpture: "Breath-Spring / Autumn", New Chitose Airport, Chitose, Hokkaido.

1993

Monument of friendship between Aichi prefecture and Jiangsu, China"Gloval Ring", Nanjing, China.
Kinetic Art: "HAPPY MACHINE-Air", Sapporo Factory, Sapporo, Hokkaido.
Sculpture: "Sky-Man-Line ", Hokkaido Postal Services Bureau, Sapporo, Hokkaido.
Appointed Professor at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Opened the Ito Study Room.

1994

Outstanding Award, 14th Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Kobe Biennale, Suma Detached Palace Garden, Kobe

1995

TAKAMICHI ITO Exhibition: "Time by Reflection", The Hakone Open-AirMuseum, Hakone, Kanagawa

1996

Kinetic Art: "Light-in the Air", Tokyo General Work Center for Senior Citizens, Iidabashi, Tokyo.
TAKAMICHI ITO Exhibition , Marunouchi-Naka-Street Art Promenade, Marunouchi, Tokyo.

1997

Kinetic Art: "Energy from the Sun", Tokaimura new government office building, Ibaraki.
Kinetic Art: "4 Rotating", Tong Young International Sculpture Symposium, Korea.
Kinetic Art: "A pair peal"Herbis Osaka, Osaka.

1998

Spatial Sculpture: "Line of Light-Snowy Wind", Echigo National Hill Park, Nagaoka, Niigata.
TAKAMICHI ITO Exhibition: "Reflected Time", The Iwate Open Air Museum, Iwate.

1999

Kinetic Art: "Dancing-Wind-Light", Shimane Art Museum, Shimane.
TAKAMICHI ITO Exhibition: "Rotating Time", Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama.

2000

TAKAMICHI ITO Exhibition:Jo Hyun Gallery,Pusan,Korea

2001

Work Collection of International Sculpture Exhibition on Theme Park Yanqing Chaina 2001

2014

Duo Exibition with Satoshi Koyama "Wind and Light Flow Through Life City" at Tenmaya Deptartment Store, Okayama.

Present

Honorary professor of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts