The UCLA Department of Art empowers students to reshape their worlds through critical inquiry and transformative creativity.
Meet our Faculty

Tarrah Krajnak
Krajnak works across photography, performance, and poetry. She physically interacts with archives using reenactment and restaging to navigate intellectual and material histories ranging from the socio-political conditions of Lima, Peru circa 1979, to the meaning of women’s poses, to the...
> More about our FacultyUndergraduate Admissions
Rigorous studio courses with world-renowned faculty enable students to develop their skills and find their voices in a wide range of mediums. Intensive making is augmented by courses in art history and critical theory, as well as liberal arts studies in other academic fields across the UCLA campus.


Graduate Admissions
Housed in the newly-renovated UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios in Culver City and led by a faculty of internationally-recognized artists, the Art M.F.A. program challenges students to work intensively within and across multiple areas of study to develop innovative and sustainable art practices.