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Art of Manga Exhibition to be Held in San Francisco to Celebrate Japanese Manga

#1 · 28 January 2025, 5:11 PM

Quote from Sovan Mandal on 28 January 2025, 5:11 PM

The de Young Museum in San Francisco will be hosting the ‘Art of Manga’ exhibition this fall, the website SFChronicle reported. This is going to be huge as this will be the first time Japanese manga is going to be up for show at this scale. It’s like it is going to be a celebration of Japanese manga which impresses as both a visual and narrative form of art. The exhibition will run from September 27 to January 25, 2026. During this time, more than 700 original manga works by some of the most renowned manga artists are going to be exhibited.

“Manga is one of the most significant visual mediums of our time,” said Thomas P. Campbell, director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in a statement. “We are excited to highlight the artistic power and cultural impact of this genre, which is deeply woven into global conversations around storytelling and identity.”

Timeless creations of such legendary artists as Akatsuka Fujio, Araki Hirohiko, and Oda Eiichiro will be there to be seen. It is going to be a unique mix of old and new as precedence will also be given to the emerging talents as well who have the potential to make it big. There is going to be different sections in the exhibition each dedicated to different aspects of manga, like its production, its emergence as a tool for societal influence, its diverse artistic style, and so on.

Visitors will also get to have a complete picture of manga, right from its beginning as humble Japanese woodblock prints back in the 18th and 19th centuries to its present form where it is available in both print and digital format. For the unversed, and there sure are many, the term 'manga' translates to 'pictures run riot' in Japanese. It refers to the art of telling a story via images.

“By prioritizing images and line over text in its storytelling, manga cultivates an ease of visceral understanding that enables readership from around the world to enjoy the same stories,” organizing curator Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, research director of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, said in a statement. “Readers become invested in characters and their stories, and manga publishers and artists take their letters and social media comments into account and adapt the ongoing story or create new manga, which often then becomes a forerunner to greater cultural shifts.”

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The de Young Museum in San Francisco will be hosting the ‘Art of Manga’ exhibition this fall, the website SFChronicle reported. This is going to be huge as this will be the first time Japanese manga is going to be up for show at this scale. It’s like it is going to be a celebration of Japanese manga which impresses as both a visual and narrative form of art. The exhibition will run from September 27 to January 25, 2026. During this time, more than 700 original manga works by some of the most renowned manga artists are going to be exhibited.

“Manga is one of the most significant visual mediums of our time,” said Thomas P. Campbell, director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in a statement. “We are excited to highlight the artistic power and cultural impact of this genre, which is deeply woven into global conversations around storytelling and identity.”

Timeless creations of such legendary artists as Akatsuka Fujio, Araki Hirohiko, and Oda Eiichiro will be there to be seen. It is going to be a unique mix of old and new as precedence will also be given to the emerging talents as well who have the potential to make it big. There is going to be different sections in the exhibition each dedicated to different aspects of manga, like its production, its emergence as a tool for societal influence, its diverse artistic style, and so on.

Visitors will also get to have a complete picture of manga, right from its beginning as humble Japanese woodblock prints back in the 18th and 19th centuries to its present form where it is available in both print and digital format. For the unversed, and there sure are many, the term 'manga' translates to 'pictures run riot' in Japanese. It refers to the art of telling a story via images.

“By prioritizing images and line over text in its storytelling, manga cultivates an ease of visceral understanding that enables readership from around the world to enjoy the same stories,” organizing curator Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, research director of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, said in a statement. “Readers become invested in characters and their stories, and manga publishers and artists take their letters and social media comments into account and adapt the ongoing story or create new manga, which often then becomes a forerunner to greater cultural shifts.”

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