4/22/20

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

7/30/20

Chaotic Good

4/20/20

The 2020 MFA Winter Exhibition
curated by Tina Rivers Ryan

Dina Benbrahim

5/4/20

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

Welcome to Buffalo

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.

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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.

The Department of Art's physical offices in the CFA remain closed while the building under goes preperations for the Fall. Our office staff are diligently working online and by phone to assist you with any questions. Please email art-info@buffalo.edu for general information.

Health and Safety Guidelines

Updated 7/22/2020

Featured News and Events:

Kit McNeil wins Awagami Paper Award and... Read More

2018 MFA graduate Kit MacNeil is the winner of the Awagami Paper Award and a semi-finalist in The Print Center's 94th Annual competition.

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.

SUNY Pride Gallery now on online. Read More...

Student and faculty works in the areas of visual art, film, creative writing, dance, drama, and music are featured in the SUNY Pride virtual gallery as part of the 2020 #SUNYPride celebration.

Reitzenstein, the artist in Residence at the Art Gallery of Hamilton Ontario. Read More...

This the past year (2019-2020), the Art Gallery of Hamilton was fortunate to begin their Artist in Residency program with notable artist, and creator of Allegorical Minimalism, Reinhard Reitzenstein!

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.

Joan Linder's work hanging at Nina Freudenheim Gallery.

Cornelia Magazine presents an interview of Joan Linder by Becky Brown. Read more...

Visiting Assistant Professor Beck Brown interviews Department Chair Joan Linder about her current solo exhibition Brood at Nina Freudenheim Gallery and other works.

O’Leary and Ortiz’s create “whisper dishes,” like those first used in Europe during World War I. Read More...

UB professor and transdisciplinary artist Shasti O’Leary Soudant’s high-concept, large-scale exhibits are known for getting people talking. Her latest project, bound for two lakeside locations in Erie, Pennsylvania, is bound to get people listening, as well.

Experience the UB Galleries' Sally Cook exhibition virtually. Read More...

UB Art Galleries Curator of Exhibitions Liz Park presents a virtual tour of Sally Cook: 1960–Present hosted by the University’s Wellness and Work Life Balance Program.

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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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)
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.
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.
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.
Joan Linder
4/8/20
Professor, Department Chair, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shasti O’Leary Soudant
4/8/20
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
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.
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.
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.

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Department News

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Window Shopping: Art Pop Up
7/24/20
Window Shopping: Art Pop Up is a multiple-venue, one-week-only series of installations on view from July 24 through July 31 at 13 locations across the City of Buffalo. Artists will showcase place-based work created during the COVID-19 pandemic.
UB artist’s latest project aims to get people listening
7/22/20
UB professor and transdisciplinary artist Shasti O’Leary Soudant’s high-concept, large-scale exhibits are known for getting people talking. Her latest project, bound for two lakeside locations in Erie, Pennsylvania, is bound to get people listening, as well.
Artpark announces 10th annual Fairy House Festival
7/20/20
Artpark & Company will present its 10th annual Fairy House Festival. Fairy House submissions are currently being accepted until Aug. 5.
Sally Cook: 1960 - Present
7/9/20
UB Art Galleries Curator of Exhibitions Liz Park presents a virtual tour of Sally Cook: 1960–Present hosted by the University’s Wellness and Work Life Balance Program.
THINKING THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHS
6/23/20
Artist and educator Sara Greenberger Rafferty and UB Art Galleries Curator Liz Park discuss the importance of metadata embedded in digital images, including ways to obfuscate this information in public forums.
SUNY Pride Virtual Gallery Opening
6/18/20
Student and faculty works in the areas of visual art, film, creative writing, dance, drama, and music are featured in the SUNY Pride virtual gallery as part of the 2020 #SUNYPride celebration.
Creative Mornings/Buffalo
6/16/20
Creative Mornings/Buffalo free breakfast speaker series for the creative community.
Joan Linder Interviewed by Becky Brown
6/16/20
Visiting Assistant Professor Beck Brown interviews Department Chair Joan Linder about her current solo exhibition Brood at Nina Freudenheim Gallery and other works.

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