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GA will organize its 2026 Thesis Presentations over three days with guest commentators at Senju campus. We welcome anyone to witness the achievements of the students.

Special Lecture：Andrea Palasti “The Killer Chrysanthemum and Other Unlikely Teachers” We are pleased to welcome visual artist and associate professor Andrea Palasti, PhD (Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad, Serbia) for a special lecture. Andrea Palasti will be staying at GA as a visiting researcher until May 2026, supported by the Canon Foundation in Europe Fellowship. Date: February 3rd, 2:40 - 4:10 PM Venue: GA Lecture room, 4F TAKI PLAZA, Ueno Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts Language: English only Abstract: Andrea Palasti works across art, research, and teaching. Her research-based projects often begin with archival traces and take…

This talk brings together an environmental specialist, an artist, and an academic researcher to explore how art can engage with social and environmental issues to raise questions and reconsider perspectives.

The Graduate School of Global Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts is jointly running the exchange residency program “TEA+” in collaboration with the Taipei National University of the Arts. The participants ,Yeh Hsing-Jou and Takeuchi Kota, will speak about their respective interests and activities, as well as how they plan to further develop the work.

There will be a special lecture by Professor Lee Jinjoon of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).

We are pleased to announce the upcoming “IMPROVISATION, COLLABORATION, PARTICIPATION: art school teaching; patterns and priorities - The Future of Arts Education: Towards New Horizons — A Comparative Study between Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and Tokyo University of the Arts.”...

DVD Cover of Avant-Garde Liberation (2002). Image courtesy of Huang Mingchuan. Director Huang Mingchuan's contemporary art documentary series, Avant-Garde Liberation: The Huang Mingchuan Image Collection of the 1990s (2002), took him ten years to produce independently. Upon its release, it was immediately recognized by the "Taishin Arts Award" as a "Visual Arts" work and granted the Grand Prize. This identification and recognition expanded Avant-Garde Liberation's categorization beyond that of a “Culture and Arts Documentary” on Taiwan Public Television, bringing to the fore a critical question: when defining "art documentation" videos, is “art” the subject matter (theme) that the film documents,…

We are pleased to host Gregory Sholette (Artist/Activist) for a special online lecture.

Hsing-Jou Yeh, a curator and researcher will hold a public lecture as a part of the exchange program, TEA+.