The University at Buffalo Department of Art invites applications for its MFA in Studio Art degree.
The MFA is a two-year program where students, faculty, visiting artists, and curators participate in energetic, interdisciplinary, and contemporary art discourse. Surrounded by a vibrant professional arts community, students engage with the program through an independently driven studio practice alongside thematic labs, research, academic electives, seminars, studio visits, group critiques, and exhibitions. Our students go on to build internationally celebrated careers in the arts.
The Department of Art is situated within an R1-designated research university, enabling access to knowledge bases across a wide range of creative and academic fields. It’s located in the Center for the Arts, which also houses the Departments of Media Study, Theater, and Dance, as well as the UB Art Galleries’ CFA Gallery.
Our curriculum encourages interdisciplinary studio practice and research. As such, each student works closely with a thesis committee of full-time faculty to focus on conceptual experimentation, personal and intellectual exploration, critical thinking, and self-directed production towards a publicly presented exhibition.
Our program offers fully funded teaching appointments to gain professional teaching experience, as well as health insurance. Funding options include full-tuition scholarships for all MFA students.
MFA candidates work in spacious individual studios with access to extensive departmental facilities, from tools for manual and digital fabrication and photography facilities, including photo processing labs (both black and white and color), to print media and audio production equipment and labs. Students also have access to the Art and Science laboratory, Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts, and the Project Space for experimental exhibitions.
Full-time faculty include Marc Böhlen, Becky Brown, Noah Breuer, Crystal Z. Campbell, Millie Chen, Kelly Myers-Chunco, Maximilian Goldfarb, Berin Golonu, George Afedzi Hughes, Matt Kenyon, Joan Linder, Julia Lillie, John Opera, Abdi Osman, Reinhard Reitzenstein, Stephanie Rothenberg, Theo Triandos, Victoria Udondian, and Paul Vanouse.
The application deadline is January 15, 2026.
To learn more, visit arts-sciences.buffalo.edu.
If you have questions about the MFA in Studio Art, contact Maximilian Goldfarb, Director of Graduate Studies, at mg229@buffalo.edu.
