7/30/20

5/4/20

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

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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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.

Health and Safety Guidelines

Updated 7/22/2020

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Featured News and Events:

Reinhard Reitzenstein with "We All Felt That" sculpture.

Associate Professor Reinhard Reitzenstein showing at the Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto. Read More...

Associate Professor, Reinhard Reitzenstein will be exhibiting some of his more recent works at the Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto.

Matt Kenyon is a featured artist on "TED's Countdown" 10/10. Read more...

Matt Kenyon and his work will be featured on TED's Countdown. It launches on 10.10.2020 at 11:00am ET. Watch live on TED’s YouTube channel.

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.

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.

It is with great sadness we share the news of Sylvie Belanger. Read More...

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Professor Sylvie Belanger. Sylvie passed away on October 8th after a long struggle with cancer.

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.

Stephanie Rothenberg is participating in the International Symposium of Electronic Art. Read more...

Stephanie Rothenberg is participating with her work "Aquadisia" in the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA), Oct 17 at 3pm

Distinguished Visiting Scholar Victoria Udondian will be joining us this fall. Read More...

Victoria Udondian, M.F.A. UB CDI Distinguished Visiting Scholar

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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Marc Bohlen
7/30/20
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.
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.
Colter Harper (visiting)
7/30/20
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
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.
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.
Dina Benbrahim
7/9/20
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Eric Fan Feng (visiting)
7/30/20
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.
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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International Symposium of Electronic Art
10/16/20
Stephanie Rothenberg is participating with her work "Aquadisia" in the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA), Oct 17 at 3pm
Sylvie Belanger
10/14/20
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Professor Sylvie Belanger. Sylvie passed away on October 8th after a long struggle with cancer.
TED's Countdown Featuring Matt Kenyon
10/8/20
Matt Kenyon and his work will be featured on TED's Countdown. It launches on 10.10.2020 at 11:00am ET. Watch live on TED’s YouTube channel.
2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows is Carlos Llobet-Montealegre
10/6/20
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.
Millie CHEN: A Forest Near the North Shore of Lake Erie
10/5/20
Millie Chen joins a number of other Canadian and French artists celebrating the long standing Canada-France relationship.
Wolf at the Door
9/25/20
The Wolf at the Door reflects upon and critiques the language of market forces and the way banks and corporations leave individual human experience out of the metaphors they use.
Workspace Residency, Spring 2021
9/22/20
Call for applications Workspace Residency, Spring 2021 Application deadline: Saturday, October 17, 2020, 11:59 pm
Visiting Artists Speakers Series: Erin Genia
9/11/20
(Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice follows various strands, merging cultural imperatives, pure expression, and exploration of materiality.

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