MFA Applications are Open
11/17/25

Come study at the top-ranked, flagship research university in the state of New York. The fully-funded MFA program in Studio Art is open for applications through Jan. 15, 2026, for Fall 2026 start.

Image: Sudi Wang in her studio space in the Center for the Arts, talking with a visitor during Art in the Open, October 30, 2025.
(photo by Meredith Forrest Kulwicki)

 

Recent Department News
11/17/25

Professors, current students, and alumni, show work in exhibitions, share new projects, and engage with new audiences.

MFA and BFA Artist Open Studios
11/17/25

MFA Candidates and BFA Senior Thesis students welcomed visitors to discuss their art and see works in progress, during Art in the Open on October 30th, 2025. 

Photo: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki

Students in Professor Joan Linder’s ART308 Drawing II: Material & Mark class did a body-scale mark making exercise. They laid out brown paper stretching from one side of the classroom to the other, and down the halls, and were encouraged to experiment with charcoal and full body movements in order to create marks. These images show students in the process of drawing on the large paper, and posing by their oversized finished works.
Classroom Showcase: ART308 Drawing II, 2/24/24
4/22/24

Students in Professor Joan Linder’s ART308 Drawing II: Material & Mark class did a body-scale mark making exercise, experimenting with charcoal and full body movements across paper on the classroom floor.

Visiting Artist Speaker Series
9/29/23

The Fall Visiting Artist Speaker Series brings important artists, designers, and thinkers to the University at Buffalo. (Artist Shantell Martin giving an artist's talk at the Center for the Arts on North Campus in 2017)

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.

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Open Call, Western New York High School Art Exhibitions!

Deadline to apply and drop-off artwork:  January 10, 2026, 3PM 

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The Department of Art Statement of Acknowledgment, Inclusion and Equity

Areas of Study

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.

  • Photography
    3/31/25
    Photography is concerned with producing creative artists and professional photographers who are fluent in a wide variety of photographic productions, techniques, and critical concerns.
  • Painting
    9/25/19
    Painting is continually evolving, producing an enormous variety of responses to philosophies and technological developments. These changes have always been part of the discipline, whether it meant moving from the frescoed surface to wood panels or from hand-mixed paints to digital techniques.
  • Emerging Practices, Art and Technology
    11/5/21
    Explore and shape the future of art. Emerging Practices, Art and Technology
    is a multidisciplinary studio practice that builds on knowledge of emerging technologies such as interactive multi-media, electronic installation, networked telematic communication, robotic art, three-dimensional simulation, biotechnology, and algorithmic image synthesis.
  • Biological Art
    7/22/24
    Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts is a hybrid studio laboratory facility dedicated to enabling hands-on creative engagement with tools and technologies from the life sciences. Coalesce offers multiple short term BioArt Residencies to visiting artists each year.
  • Performance
    11/10/21
    The currency of performance-based art lies in its capacity to be utilized in the most extreme, urgent, and quotidian of situations, incorporating live and mediated means.
  • Print Media
    9/30/19
    Print Media students work in an atmosphere of intellectual exploration and investigation, with comprehensive print facilities for developing and refining their personal vision.
  • Drawing
    4/18/23
    Explore line, shape and form in a variety of mediums on a diversity of scale. Work in large rooms with skylights and spotlights at dimensions that are only limited by your imagination. Here, we explore everything from still-life and life drawing to anatomical and architectural drawing. Our award-winning instructors are here to help you refine and expand your skills.
  • Graphic Design
    7/16/24
    Today’s digitally networked culture and industry demand increasing levels of visual literacy. Communication in the 21st century is an ecology of information, knowledge production, and visual rhetoric that shapes the way people understand our world.
  • Art History
    10/31/24
    In today’s broad and immersive visual world, the Art History program is committed to studying the visual arts as tools for exploring and decoding culture.
  • Sculpture and Installation
    11/20/24
    The sculpture and installation program encourages students to investigate a multitude of methods, materials, and conceptual approaches. Students in this area employ a range of fabrication techniques and technologies to engage with the material, technical, aesthetic, and theoretical dimensions of contemporary sculpture practice.

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