The Department of Art and Art Professions offers studio programs for MFA, BFA, and Minor degrees that integrate technical skills with theoretical understanding within the context of a world-class university setting. Studio Art studies are interdisciplinary, with facilities in painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, computer art and design, video, ceramics, metalsmithing, and installation.
Degrees In This Program
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Studio Art
The BFA in Studio Art offers intensive, hands-on studio practice alongside access to New York City's vibrant art scene and all the resources of a top-tier research university.
Master of Fine Arts
Studio Art
The MFA program is dedicated to assisting you in the development of your artistic practice through an approach that is intensely introspective while collectively open to the challenges and issues of the larger world.
Minor
Studio Art
Undergraduate students at NYU have the opportunity to minor in Studio Art, which allows you the opportunity to explore three core areas of contemporary studio practice.
Minor
Digital Art and Design
Learn to conceive and create digitally based art and design work with a blend of technological skill and theoretical and historical perspectives in this undergraduate minor.
BFA Facilities
Barney Building facilities include studio classrooms and workshops for sculpture, printmaking, painting, drawing, ceramics, metalsmithing, and sewing. In addition, the building has photography labs, a fabrication lab, digital labs, and printing studios.
Exhibition Spaces at Barney:
The Commons is an exhibition and performance space with beautiful two-story clerestory windows. Rosenberg Gallery is our white-box space for installations. Student exhibitions change every 2–3 weeks.
MFA Facilities
MFAs have private studios and access to facilities for sculpture, printmaking, painting, drawing, ceramics, metalsmithing, sewing, photography, fabrication, and digital printing.
Learn more about NYU studio facilities.
Department of
Art and Art Professions
Barney Building
34 Stuyvesant Street, New York, NY 10003
212-998-5700
nyuart@nyu.edu