Faculty of Art pages in Japanese here

Seeking new creative expression

The newly reorganized Faculty of Art is comprised of three departments: Fine Arts, Material Expression, and Media Arts, providing seven major courses: Oil Painting, Japanese Painting (Nihonga), Sculpture, Ceramics, Textiles, Printmaking, and Video & Media Arts (links on sidebar).

While retaining our successfully-proven environment in which students can complete in-depth studies through our individual tutor system, we have enhanced the originality of our courses, resulting in a clearer orientation within this faculty to the fine arts. Students can access great diversity and depth through exposure to a wide variety of materials and techniques ranging from traditional to hi-tech.

Statistics, Faculty of Art (May 2009):
Total undergraduate enrollment: 947
(M: 183; F: 764)

Overseas undergraduate students: 7

Gallery of teachers' works
(text in Japanese, click thumbnails for profiles and photos):
Dept. of Fine Arts
Dept. of Material Expression
Dept. of Media Arts

Graduation exhibitions: Online catalogs 1998-2009 (click through to individual images of work by every graduating student in each department...)

Graduate Students
Master's level (and in some cases, Ph.D level) courses may be available through our Graduate School of Art. A high level of Japanese language ability (speaking, reading, writing) is required.

Exchange Students
Exchange students are welcomed from universities with which Kyoto Seika University has official reciprocal agreements (in the order in which these links were established):

• ANU School of Art, National Institute of the Arts,Canberra, Australia
• School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
• Southern California Institute of Architecture  (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles USA
• Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence USA
  Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK
• Hong Ik University, Korea
• The Arts Academy, Turku University of Applied Arts, Finland
• Cooper Union, New York, USA
• California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA
• Alto University School of Art & Design, Helsinki, Finland
• Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU), Utrecht, the Netherlands
• Gerrit Rietveld Academie (GRA), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Kassel School of Arts & Design, Kassel, Germany
• Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, UK
• L'Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique, France
• L'Ecole Speciale d'Architecture, Paris, France
• Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture. Paris Malaquais, Paris, France