Her work includes printmaking, painting, ceramics and digital art and has been exhibited internationally.
[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 to 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.
[6] Her father, Akira Itami, was the model for a character in Toyoko Yamasaki's 1983 novel titled "Futatsu no Sokoku", Two Motherlands.