Manna Gallery

Manna Gallery Manna Gallery Manna Gallery presents contemporary art by emerging and mid - career artists, mainly from Northern California.

A member of Oakland’s Art Murmur since 2011, our goal is to select the most interesting and innovative work being produced in one of the most creative regions in the country. We are open to the public and admission is free.

25th st block party on Saturday. Free Button making & collage 12-4pm. We’re ready to celebrate 20 years of Oakland Art ...
05/30/2026

25th st block party on Saturday. Free Button making & collage 12-4pm.

We’re ready to celebrate 20 years of Oakland Art Murmur with the spotlight on the artists of East Bay Open Studios. Without artists, we wouldn’t be here! It’s a full day of hands-on art-making activities, live music, a DJ spinning vinyl, performers, food and drinks. We’re closing off the street, where we can dance, make art, and celebrate artists!

Familiar Strangers Artist Spotlight: Monica Guillory paints from vintage photographs, transforming fleeting moments of i...
05/28/2026

Familiar Strangers Artist Spotlight: Monica Guillory paints from vintage photographs, transforming fleeting moments of intimacy and joy into layered compositions that mirror the fragility and emotional elasticity of memory—where figures emerge, dissolve, and persist through time.

Familiar Strangers is on view through June 20th. Manna Gallery is open Saturdays 12-5, First Fridays 5-8 and by appointment.


Come to the 20 year anniversary of Manna gallery will be hosting a free button making and collagen event in the galle...
05/28/2026

Come to the 20 year anniversary of Manna gallery will be hosting a free button making and collagen event in the gallery 13-4pm

Free and open to all.

Familiar Strangers Artist Spotlight: Pamela Mooney reconfigures found imagery into compositions that are at once familia...
05/26/2026

Familiar Strangers Artist Spotlight: Pamela Mooney reconfigures found imagery into compositions that are at once familiar and disorienting. Through distortion, color disruption, and chance, her work challenges viewers to unravel embedded meanings while considering the impact our cultural narratives have on the possibilities of the future.

Familiar Strangers is on view through June 20th. Manna Gallery is open Saturdays 12-5, First Friday 5-8 and by appointment.

Familiar Strangers Artist Spotlight: Madelyn Covey paints portraits of friends and family that examine the performance o...
05/21/2026

Familiar Strangers Artist Spotlight: Madelyn Covey paints portraits of friends and family that examine the performance of identity within intimate, domestic spaces. Working on found wallpaper, she builds visual relationships between subject and surface, creating textured reflections on connection, care, and the subtle ways we inhabit our roles.

Familiar Strangers is on view through June 20th.
Manna Gallery is open Saturdays 12-5, First Fridays from 5-8 and by appointment.

Familiar Strangers on view in our gallery artist spotlight: Devynn Barnes is an Oakland-based painter, visual artist, an...
05/19/2026

Familiar Strangers on view in our gallery artist spotlight:
Devynn Barnes is an Oakland-based painter, visual artist, and archivist. Through her multi-disciplinary work, she transforms archival fragments into portals of Afro-surreal conjure, restoring suppressed Black q***r presence and imagining landscapes of collective homecoming. Barnes invites viewers to confront their own narratives, encouraging a collective awakening, communal (melanated) homecoming, and admittance to our interconnected archives.

Familiar Strangers opens today! Join us for an artists reception from 2-4pm. Manna Gallery is open 12-5pm.Featuring: Dev...
05/16/2026

Familiar Strangers opens today! Join us for an artists reception from 2-4pm. Manna Gallery is open 12-5pm.
Featuring: Devynn Barnes, Madelyn Covey, Monica Guillory, Pamela Mooney, Jillian Shea, Julianne Sterling, & Deirdre White

May 16 - June 20, 2026
Artists’ Reception:
Saturday, May 16, 2-4 pm
Oakland Art Murmur 20th Anniversary party:
Saturday, May 30
First Friday:
June 5, 5-8 pm

Manna Gallery is excited to present Familiar Strangers, a group exhibition featuring seven Bay Area figurative artists exploring the shifting relationships between memory, identity, and image. In a time when identity is constantly performed, recorded, and revised, the exhibition focuses on the unstable space where perception and recollection overlap, where what we see, remember, and share is never entirely fixed. The works embrace a deliberate ambiguity, reflecting the blur of digital culture, the fragility of memory, and the subjectivity of observation. Across their practices, these artists consider how personal and collective histories are shaped, obscured, and reimagined, inviting viewers to reflect on how images influence the stories we tell about ourselves and one another.

05/15/2026

Everything Must Go
Open Call
Deadline Sunday May 17th!

A juried exhibition exploring urgency, impermanence, release, and what we hold onto anyway. Letting go becomes not only necessary, but transformative.

Exhibition Dates: July 11 – August 8, 2026
Juror: Lisa Solomon — Bay Area artist, writer, and college professor.
Apply via link in bio or on our website.

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⏳ 10 days left to apply!Don’t miss your chance to be part of Everything Must Go, a juried group exhibition exploring imp...
05/07/2026

⏳ 10 days left to apply!

Don’t miss your chance to be part of Everything Must Go, a juried group exhibition exploring impermanence, loss, transformation, and renewal.

We’re looking for work that reflects on endings—personal, cultural, material, or systemic—and the possibilities they create. From decay and erasure to release and reinvention, this theme holds space for both reflection and agency. What happens when we let go? What new beginnings take shape?

🗓 Entries due: Sunday, May 17 at 10 pm
🔗 Link in bio

Everything Must Go
Juror: Lisa Solomon
July 11 – August 8, 2026
Manna Gallery, Oakland

Open to Northern California artists (18+). BIPOC and LGBTQIA2S+ artists are strongly encouraged to apply.

We can’t wait to see your work ✨

Last day to see Built Different this Saturday, May 9, 12–5 pm 📸Featuring photo collages by Gina Gaiser, this show dives ...
05/06/2026

Last day to see Built Different this Saturday, May 9, 12–5 pm 📸

Featuring photo collages by Gina Gaiser, this show dives into the textures of the built environment—brickwork, graffiti, industrial surfaces, and architectural grids—reimagined as striking studies in repetition, contrast, and form. Stripped of color, each piece highlights structure and rhythm, bringing overlooked details into sharp focus. Together, the images form larger visual systems that uncover unexpected order in everyday surroundings.

Stop by before it’s gone and see the city in a whole new way.

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473 25th Street
Oakland, CA
94612

Opening Hours

12pm - 5pm

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+15109056330

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