Department of Art

1/19/19

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.

Graduate studies

11/19/18

Students work in spacious, fully equipped studios in one of America's best designed cities. The University at Buffalo offers generous financial support packages to graduate students, in the form of stipends, travel funds, teaching/research assistantships, and full tuition waivers.

Undergraduate Studies

11/19/18

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

11/19/18

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

Creative Arts Initiative: Artists-in-Residence

11/19/18

Performance Artist Nick Cave and Photographer Martin Kruck will be on campus as part of The University at Buffalo’s Creative Arts Initiative 2018-19 artists-in-residence.

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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.

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.

RANKED 20th
Best Art School and Colleges in 2017

"Curriculum combines developing creative skills with academic knowledge in critical theory and aesthetics to create thoughtful artists who can communicate their unique visions.

Graduates of the school’s art programs find employment at art galleries, museums, and design and advertising firms, as well as colleges and universities."

Professor Paul Vanouse with student and colored glass balls.

Our faculty bring to the studio and classroom their commitment to excellence in skill building, creative problem solving, skill building, and innovation to the classroom. As practicing artists, makers, scholars, researchers, and activists, our faculty offer expert guidance in today’s creative fields.