5/14/20

On behalf of the Department of Art, we would all like to congratulate on your upcoming graduation from the University at Buffalo!

Come Join us Thurs, May 14, at 6PM for our Zoom Commencement.

BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition

5/5/20

Big Artist Energy

2020 BFA Senior Thesis Virtual Exhibition
Soft Launch May 4, 2020
www.BigArtistEnergy.com

Dina Benbrahim

5/4/20

We are happy to announce our newest faculty member Dina Benbrahim, joining us this fall!

Welcome to Buffalo

5/4/20

Buffalo is New York’s second-largest city and has been home to many prominent artists, including Michael Zwack, Charles Clough, Robert Longo, Cory Archangel, Nancy Dwyer, Tony Conrad and Cindy Sherman. It was also home to Mary Burnett Talbert who helped to launch organized civil rights activism in America and to Serbian inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla.

Undergraduate Studies

4/28/20

The University at Buffalo’s Department of Art is housed within New York State’s premier public university. Our programs offer a unique convergence of contemporary art, technology, and critical discourse.

Visiting Artist Speaker Series

4/22/20

The Fall Visiting Artist Speaker Series brings important artists, designers, and thinkers to the University at Buffalo.

Chaotic Good

4/20/20

The 2020 MFA Winter Exhibition
curated by Tina Rivers Ryan

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Covid-19 Operational Updates

For information regarding the Department of Art’s operational changes due to COVID-19 click here

Our main offices have moved online and staff will be working remotely for the remainder of the Spring semester. Please email art-info@buffalo.edu for general information.

The Department of Art at the University at Buffalo is dedicated to developing creative and academic skills in studio art, post-studio art, graphic design, aesthetics, critical theory, and art history. Since its founding, our department has been committed to shepherding innovative approaches and new practices. We empower our students to represent their unique visions within a contemporary cultural environment.

Featured News and Events:

Our College Rankings are Quite impressive. Read More...

Hone your artistic skills by attending one of the very best art schools in the United States. Ranking in the Top 10 Art Schools and Top 50 Graphic Design Schools in the US, UB provides the education you are looking for today.

2020 Commencements go virtual. Read More...

Commencement ceremonies will be held in a virtual environment this May, UB President Satish K. Tripathi said in an email update to the campus community.

2015 Alumni Stacey Robinson interviewed by John Massier of Hallwalls. Read More...

Socially Distant Studio Visit #7 with artist Stacey Robinson in conversation with Hallwalls' curator John Massier.

Anne Muntges, Titched In at Portal Governors Island. Photo by Sarah Cascone.

Alumni Anne Muntges featured in Art News magazine. Read More...

2008 MFA alumni Anne Muntges is one of 9 artists discussed by Artnet in an artical about the 2019 Portal Fair on Governor’s Island in NYC.

Reitzenstein, the artist in Residence at the Art Gallery of Hamilton Ontario. Read More...

This the past year (2019-2020), the Art Gallery of Hamilton was fortunate to begin their Artist in Residency program with notable artist, and creator of Allegorical Minimalism, Reinhard Reitzenstein!

Kit McNeil wins Awagami Paper Award and... Read More

2018 MFA graduate Kit MacNeil is the winner of the Awagami Paper Award and a semi-finalist in The Print Center's 94th Annual competition.

Work In Real Time Open Call. Read More...

Submit your new arts-based project to participate in our new, digital version of Work In Real Time for a chance to win $1,500 and the expertise of our panel of experts.

Faculty Member Wins 2019 Prix Ars Golden Nica. Read More...

Congratulations to Department of Art Professor Paul Vanouse for winning a Golden Nica from Ars Electronica. This year's Prix Ars Electronica received a total of 3,256 entries from 82 countries.

Future Students

Our student body represents a diverse cross-section of the nation and the world. As a small art and design school situated within one of the nation's largest and most comprehensive research universities, students get the best of both worlds.

Meet Our Faculty

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Gary Nickard
4/8/20
Associate Clinical Professor, Photography; Visual Studies. Gary Nickard is a conceptual artist committed to exploring the interstices between visual art and literature while engaging such diverse topics as science, philosophy, psychoanalysis and various historical knowledge systems.
T. Triandos
4/8/20
Visiting Lecturer, Art History; Visual Studies. His work explores the politics of representation in art criticism during the late 20th century. In particular, he is interested in how struggles over the meaning of postmodernism during the late 1970s and early 1980s anticipate the culture wars of the coming decade.
Matt Kenyon
4/8/20
Director, Graduate Program, Assistant Professor, Graphic Design; Emerging Practices. Kenyon’s work has been exhibited internationally and collected by institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It has received a number of awards including the distinguished FILE Prix Lux Art prize.
Paul Vanouse
4/8/20
Professor, Program Head Emerging Practices, Director Coalesce, Emerging Practices. Paul Vanouse has been working in emerging media forms since 1990. Interdisciplinarity and impassioned amateurism guide his art practice. His electronic cinema, biological experiments, and interactive installations have been exhibited in over 20 countries and widely across the US.
Joan Linder
4/8/20
Professor, Department Chair, Drawing. Her large-scale images of quotidian subjects find inspiration from my immediate surroundings. Her resent project, Operation Sunshine, explores the toxic chemical and radioactive waste sites of the Buffalo -Niagara region.
John Opera
4/8/20
Assistant Professor, Photography Program Head. In his photo-based work, John Opera combines a deep interest in the visual characteristics of natural and scientific phenomena with a rigorous experimental approach to the techniques and apparatuses by which photographs have been defined and produced.
Berin Golonu
4/8/20
Clinical Assistant Professor, Visual Studies. Golonu’s research interests include Middle Eastern modern and contemporary art, Ottoman and Orientalist art and visual culture, art and environmentalism in developing Asian countries, and photographic histories of the Middle East.
Millie Chen
4/8/20
Professor, Intermedia. Chen utilizes the subversive capacity of image making and non-visual elements like sound, scent, and participatory, collaborative modes of working to interrupt habits of viewing.
Stephanie Rothenberg
4/8/20
Associate Professor, Graphic Design Program Head, Graphic Design; Emerging Practices. Stephanie Rothenberg creates provocative interactions that question the boundaries and social constructs of manufactured desires.
Adele Henderson
4/8/20
Professor, Program Head, Print Media, Henderson’s artwork has been exhibited in over 170 solo and group exhibitions across the US and internationally including Australia, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, and Slovenia. Her prints and works on paper are in the collections of a great many museums and institutions across the country.
Livingston V. Watrous
4/8/20
Professor, Visual Studies; Art History. Professor Watrous’ interests include Aegean and Greek art and archaeology. He is particularly interested in iconography (mainly as it relates to Greek poetry) and the relationship between society, social institutions and art.
Shasti O’Leary Soudant
4/8/20
Visiting Assistant Professor, Graphic Design. Shasti is transdisciplinary artist, designer and writer. In her art practice, she uses a wide range of media and material to create immersive experiences
Marc Bohlen
4/8/20
Professor, Emerging Practices in Computational Media. Artist-engineer Marc Böhlen / RealTechSupport delivers the kind of support technology really needs. His research focuses on two areas: public computational media and speculative robotics.
Maximilian Goldfarb
4/16/20
Clinical Assistant Professor, Sculpture. Goldfarb is a maker of unsettled objects and soundscapes presented through methods of installation and transmission: Forms of production include books, object installations, site-based artworks, experimental architectures, and mobile radio programming.
Becky Brown
4/16/20
Visiting Assistant Professor, Painting. Brown works between painting, drawing, sculpture and installation using found images, objects and texts. Diverse materials inform her practice, including pre-modern poetic forms, current headlines, photo-journalism and discarded appliances.
Reinhard Reitzenstein
4/8/20
Associate Professor, Director Undergraduate Program, Sculpture Program Head. He works in several parallel areas: indoor installation and sculpture using cast, spun and welded metals, wood, glass, photography, digitally processed images; large scale drawings; outdoor tree-based installations and sound art.
George Afedzi Hughes
4/8/20
Associate Professor, Program Head, Painting. George’s work involves painting and performance art, utilizing the turbulence of colonialism as a premise to highlight parallels between that violent history and contemporary global conflicts.

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Department News

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UB Class of 2020
5/12/20
Celebrate yourself. Celebrate your classmates. Share all that UB has meant to you, and give a shout out to our #UBClassof2020!
Chief Preparator at Penn State Museum
4/30/20
William Bergmann (2013 BFA) became Chief Preparator at Penn State Palmer Museum on April 1, 2020
The Print Center Semifinalist - K. MacNeil
4/30/20
2018 MFA graduate Kit MacNeil is the winner of the Awagami Paper Award and a semi-finalist in The Print Center's 94th Annual competition.
Big Artist Energy - 2020 Senior Thesis
4/27/20
2020 Senior Thesis "Virtual" Exhibition will launch very soon at BigArtistEnergy.com
Cornelia Magazine - Special Covid 19 Issue
4/27/20
The issue is dedicated to documentation and reviews for any artist or gallery with an exhibition of work effected by COVID-19.
Tread Softly
4/23/20
Brandon Geissman talks about his current project "Tread Softly" on display in Eleven Twenty Projects Main St Facing windows.
2020 Commencement Ceramonies will be Virtual
4/21/20
Commencement ceremonies will be held in a virtual environment this May, UB President Satish K. Tripathi said in an email update to the campus community.
Work In Real Time Open Call
4/15/20
Submit your new arts-based project to participate in our new, digital version of Work In Real Time for a chance to win $1,500 and the expertise of our panel of experts.

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