MA Applications are Open
3/23/21

Come study at the top-ranked, flagship research university in the state of New York. The MA programs in Visual Studies and Art & Design for Social Impact at the University at Buffalo exceed traditional boundaries and encourage diverse practices, art, design and activism.

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
Spring Session

February 01, 2021

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Featured News and Events:

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First Year MFA Exhibition... Read More

The 2021 first year MFA exhibition being held in the Atrium of 500 Seneca, Buffalo, NY. It looks to be an exciting show!
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UB Virtual Photo Book Club with Naomi Harris ... Read More

The UB virtual photo book club is the only book club where it doesn’t matter if you’ve read the book or not. Naomi Harris will lead conversations with well known photographers about the books they've published. Each week will feature a different artist.
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MFA Thesis Exhibition "Chaotic Good Parts 2 & 3"... Read More

Chaotic Good Parts 2 & 3, Group Graduate Thesis Exhibitions, Spring 2021, UB Art Galleries. March 27 to May 8
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2021 Senior Thesis Exhibitions. Each week will feature two different artists in the Project Space... Read More

2021 Senior Thesis Exhibitions are being shown in the Project Space (155cfa) March 8 to April 29, 2021

Future Students

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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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Matt Kenyon
    4/14/21
    Director, Graduate Program, Associate 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Stephanie Rothenberg
    4/15/21
    Professor, Graphic Design Program Head, Graphic Design; Emerging Practices. Stephanie Rothenberg’s interdisciplinary art draws from digital culture, science and economics to explore relationships between human designed systems and biological ecosystems.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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