An artist who earns a living drawing courtroom scenes is getting a museum survey of his own. 'Matsumoto Yu: The Image of You,' at the Kurobe City Museum of Art in Toyama from October 10 to December 20, 2026, gathers roughly 60 lithographs by the Kyoto-born artist, born in 1993, spanning his earliest work to brand-new pieces. Matsumoto's method begins with real events. Drawing on his work as a courtroom sketch artist and on news stories, he visits the sites of incidents, researches them, and then produces lithographs in which he substitutes his own figure for the people involved. The exhibition is arranged in eight sections — among them 'news and prints,' 'the courtroom and prints,' 'industry and prints,' 'movements and prints,' and 'the afterlives of prints' — designed to be compared across sections so that shifts in his position and in the roles lithography can play become visible. One section, on the 'afterlives' of prints, focuses on what happens after a work is published: how its images travel, get mediated toward new audiences, and are reinterpreted, and how people receive and confront events through those images. Another section takes Toyama itself as its subject, presenting works made after repeated rounds of on-site field research into the 1918 Rice Riots, the protest movement led by women in Toyama amid soaring rice prices. The show treats printmaking's history as reportage as its premise, using Matsumoto's practice to ask what imagination is demanded of viewers when the thing depicted cannot be seen directly.