The First Yuri Manga in English: 30th Anniversary Art Show of Manga Artists Rica Takashima

This exhibition features black-and-white manga manuscripts, color manuscripts in 1995, and newly drawn illustration posters released in 2025, available for viewing and purchase.

You will see Why “Rica ’tte Kanji!? “ become the first yuri manga ever translated into English.

 

Don't miss this rare opportunity!

The gallery is open on weekends, and on weekdays by appointment.

Please DM me to schedule a visit! 
139 N4 street Brooklyn NY 11249 Sat &Sun 1-6pm 
N line, Bedford station

The show runs through the end of this month.
Hope to see you there! 💖

 

・A Day Full of Anxiety and Expectations

・MICHIRU, Handsome FtM

・KAORU, Cool MtF

・A Late Christmas

・I Can’t Get You out of My Mind

・Hug, Kiss and Beyond

・Sick Days

・Moving Forward

 

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Hello from Rica

Hi!

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Please visit these links below for more information!

Thank you very much,

Rica Takashima

Covid related project

Fabric with a Big Drawing from the Big Apple

https://onbigdrawings.org/art-at-home/

Participatory art project

・Aliens in New York art project
https://aliensnewyork.wixsite.com/mysite

https://www.facebook.com/Aliens-in-New-York-art-project-300219990107200/

https://www.facebook.com/Peekaboo-Art-Project-131699606919192

Social practice art project

・One Stop Family Pop Up

https://1stopfamily.blogspot.com

・Ramp Project NYC (StopGap NYC)

https://therampprojectnyc.blogspot.com

Manga/Anime Work website

https://takashimarica.wixsite.com/ricatakashima-3/home

Drawing, sketches

https://www.pinterest.jp/ricaspopart/

https://www.instagram.com/ricatakashima/

https://www.facebook.com/RicaTPopArtPaintingsDrawings/

Manga Sculpture at Randall’s Island

https://randallsisland.org/flow-15/flow-15-rica-takashima/

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rica_%27tte_Kanji!%3F

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rica_Takashima

NYFA Current

・Aliens in New York art project
https://current.nyfa.org/post/126347857743/rica-takashima-aliens-and-other-extraterrestrial
・One Stop Family Pop Up
https://current.nyfa.org/post/187168306363/conversations-rica-takashima-and-christine?fbclid=IwAR349KMz0ULRq4nVhF5S7V5G6Lg4ClQp-6YujRHg1JXMxNMqG51m8wSWj6E

NYFA Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF11TKclY1w&t=74s

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/ricatakashima/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/AliensNewYork

Old website (1980s-2015ish)

http://AozoraArt.com

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Rica Takashima’s profile

 

Rica's themes are discomfort and empathy towards pre-existing concepts and lifestyles, such as gender, age and race.

 

Something that is ordinary to one person can be a strange practice to others. At the same time, that strange practice can be exciting to yet another. Rica wants to express the differences between cultures as something fun and exciting, rather than as creating conflict and friction.

In 1995, Rica started drawing the semi-autobiographical Manga portraying everyday lives of lesbians, in Japan’s premier lesbian magazine at that time. She struggled with her sexuality since her young age, but there were no movies/novels with themed positive lesbian stories even in 1980s. Her questions towards traditional Japanese patriarchal family values and discrimination against LGBT motivated her to start to draw conceptual Manga to public. Her project Manga book was published in 2003 and 2012 in English and Japanese, and Italian version in 2011. After she immigrated to the US with her family in 2008, she collaborates her work with Pride March, NewFEST LGBT film festival, and other diverse organizations.

She also created manga illustrations of We Can Do It! series, which encourages women in diversity. 

Manga sculpture, El Barrio Comes All Colors, Shapes and Sizes was funded by Flow15, Randall’s Island park alliance, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Made Event 2015

Rica, Miho and Meechan Cat was awarded as Demystifying NFTs by Technology Gap and New York Foundation for the Arts, 2022

Her interactive public installation Aliens in New York has been supported by New York Foundation for the Arts since 2013 which Rica started in Tokyo Harajuku open street since 1994.(The name at the time was Aozora Art/Blue Sky Art)

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