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.

The Department of Art Statement of Acknowledgment, Inclusion and Equity

Featured News and Events:

John Opera at Basel... Read More

DOCUMENT is pleased to participate in June Art Fair in Basel with a solo presentation of John Opera.

Image by Manzel Bowman, Space Station No.9.

ASCENSION OF BLACK STILLNESS at CEPA... Read More

CEPA is excited to announce the opening of a new exhibition, Ascension of Black Stillness, in collaboration with Guest Curator and Artist Stacey Robinson

"Do Not Mistake Our Softness for Weakness" sculpture by Shasti O’Leary-Soudant.

Shasti OLeary Soudant and the Junior League of Buffalo... Read More

The Junior League of Buffalo (JLB) announces that artist, Shasti O’Leary-Soudant, has been selected to create a sculpture commemorating its centennial. “Do Not Mistake Our Softness for Weakness,” a large-scale sculpture installation is set to be unveiled Sept 21, 2021 at 7pm, in front of the Burchfield Penney Art Center at 1300 Elmwood Avenue.

Reinhard Reitzenstein talks with Lisa Jayne Irvine on her Podcast "Art Conversations"... Read More

Reinhard Reitzenstein talks with Lisa Jayne Irvine on her Podcast "Art Conversations"

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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Victoria Udondian (Visiting Associate Professor)
8/30/21
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.

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Department News

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John Opera at Basel Art Fair
9/20/21
DOCUMENT is pleased to participate in June Art Fair in Basel with a solo presentation of John Opera.
Shasti O’Leary-Soudant and the Junior League of Buffalo
9/17/21
The Junior League of Buffalo (JLB) announces that artist, Shasti O’Leary-Soudant, has been selected to create a sculpture commemorating its centennial. “Do Not Mistake Our Softness for Weakness,” a large-scale sculpture installation is set to be unveiled Sept 21, 2021 at 7pm, in front of the Burchfield Penney Art Center at 1300 Elmwood Avenue.
Stacey Robinson: Ascension of Black Stillness
9/17/21
CEPA is excited to announce the opening of a new exhibition, Ascension of Black Stillness, in collaboration with Guest Curator and Artist Stacey Robinson
Reinhard Reitzenstein in Podcast: Art Conversation
9/16/21
Reinhard Reitzenstein talks with Lisa Jayne Irvine on her Podcast "Art Conversations"
Alumnus Mizin Shin: Spoken and Seen #UseYourVoice
9/9/21
Spoken and Seen #UseYourVoice, an exhibition by Mizin Shin at Western New York Book Arts Center.
Professor Paul Vanouse Named Falling Walls 2021 Winner
8/19/21
Professor Paul Vanouse's bio-art project that recreates smell of human sweat named Falling Walls 2021 winner
Andie Jairam, Unite Together for Change, 2021
8/17/21
Andie Jairam’s work Unite Together for Change, 2021, an installation in the Burchfield Penney Art Center Atrium
Matt Kenyon at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art
7/28/21
Reclamation features the work of celebrated artists Matt Kenyon, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Mary Mattingly, John Sabraw, “Ecosexuals” Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, and Cedra Wood.

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