MFA and MA Applications are Open Through January 15, 2021

12/1/20

Come study at the top-ranked, flagship research university in the state of New York. The MFA and MA programs at the University at Buffalo exceed traditional boundaries and encourage diverse practices, art and activism, and emerging fields.

Image: Reticula Hybrida by Darya Warner, MFA 2020

11/5/20

Visiting Artist Speaker Series

11/5/20

The Fall Visiting Artist Speaker Series brings important artists, designers, and thinkers to the University at Buffalo. (Hard Light by Stephanie Syjuco)

Welcome to Buffalo

11/5/20

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.

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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.

Office, Lab and Studio Hours and Access

The Department of Art’s main office will be open by appointment during our operational hours for the Fall semester while on-site instruction takes place (through Wednesday November, 25th). Labs and Studios can be accessed by making arrangements with our instructional staff.

The Department of Art Statement of Acknowledgment, Inclusion and Equity

Winter Session

January 4-22, 2021

Spring Session

February 01, 2021

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Health and Safety Guidelines

Updated 1/13/2021

Featured News and Events:

Poster image, Gabrielle Civil, still from Fugue (Da Montréal) (2014).

Being In-Between / In-Between Being Exhibition ... Read More

an exploration of intertextuality and identity by womxn and queer artists
Online Exhibition & Virtual Event Series

Carlos Llobet-Montealegre wins NYSCA/NYFA award ... Read More

Among this year's NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows is Carlos Llobet-Montealegre, a UB alumnus who was recognized in the Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts discipline.

Gerald Mead being awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree.

Alumni receives Honorary Doctorate from ... Read More

Gerald Mead (MFA 2008) was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Niagara University. The degree was conferred during the University's virtual Commencement ceremony on July 26.

Apply now RUMSEY Competition and Award ... Read More

Applications are open now until January 29, 2021 Apply online through your buffalo.academicworks.com account

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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John Opera
1/12/21
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.
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.
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.
Joan Linder
10/14/20
Professor of 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shasti O’Leary Soudant
8/24/20
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
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.
Colter Harper (visiting)
12/3/20
Visiting Associate Professor in Photography, Colter Harper is a guitarist and ethnomusicologist from the North Country of New York. In 2011, Colter completed a PhD in Music at the University of Pittsburgh, where his research focused on the city's vibrant jazz history
Becky Brown
7/9/20
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.
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.
Eric Fan Feng (visiting)
12/3/20
Visiting Associate Professor in Painting, Prof. Feng is an initiator of an academic exchange residency program between the Department of Art, University at Buffalo, SUNY and The Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University.
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.
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.
Dina Benbrahim
12/3/20
Dina Benbrahim is an Arab multidisciplinary creative who uses a feminist lens to focus on illuminating the power in human beings to be transformative forces in society. Her current research investigates design for civic action and social justice for marginalized communities to collectively reimagine equitable futures.
Marc Böhlen
12/3/20
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.

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Department News

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RAW WATER (2021)
1/13/21
AN EXHIBIT BY BRANDON GIESSMAN at CEPA Gallery Saturday, January 16, 2021 through Saturday, February 20, 2021
2021 Rumsey Competition and Exhibition Application
1/11/21
Applications are open now until January 29, 2021 Apply online through your buffalo.academicworks.com account
Infodemic
12/10/20
Join "DEEP FAKE" curator Isabel Beavers in a discussion with Derek Curry and Jennifer Gradecki, the artists who created Infodemic.
Gerald Mead was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree
12/8/20
Gerald Mead (MFA 2008) was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Niagara University. The degree was conferred during the University's virtual Commencement ceremony on July 26.
Sculpture in the Expanded Field
12/1/20
Gallery Talk: "Sculpture in the Expanded Field" with Reinhard Reitzenstein, Associate Professor and Director of Sculpture Program from the Department of Art at SUNY Buffalo and Gary Sczerbaniewicz, artist and 2013 UB MFA Graduate.
Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science
11/23/20
John Santomieri and Felipe Shibuya will be presenting during the Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science conference a work that addresses how embodying gay idealisms affects our bodies, especially our microdiversity. We’ll be talking about how these processes have historically had a bearing on the history of women and the LGBTQ community.
Dina Benbrahim speaking at AIGA
11/11/20
Assistant Professor Dina Benbrahim is speaking at the AIGA Design Conference 2020.
Still Time to Enroll in 2021 Winter Session Classes
11/3/20
Still Time to Enroll in ART 111, ART 250, AHI 101 and AHI 251

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