Tokyo University of the Arts


Tokyo University of the Arts or Geidai is the most prestigious art school in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained renowned artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, crafts, inter-media, sound, music composition, traditional instruments, art curation and global arts.

History

The university was formed in 1949 by the merger of the Tokyo Fine Arts School and the Tokyo Music School , both founded in 1887. Originally male-only, the schools began to admit women in 1946. The graduate school opened in 1963, and began offering doctoral degrees in 1977. The doctoral degree in fine art practice initiated in the 1980s was one of the earliest programs to do so globally. After the National University Corporations were formed on April 1, 2004, the school became known as the. On April 1, 2008, the university changed its English name from "Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music" to "Tokyo University of the Arts."
The school has had student exchanges with a number of other art and music institutions such as École des Beaux-Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Royal Academy of Music, the University of Sydney and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, the Korea National University of Arts, and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Departments

Department of Fine Arts

12-8 Ueno Park
Taitō, Tokyo 110-8714, Japan

Artists