Tokyo University of the Arts (東京藝術大学, Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku) or Tokyogeidai (東京芸大) is a school of art and music in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, crafts, inter-media, sound, music composition, traditional instruments, art curation and global arts.
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History
Under the establishment of the National School Establishment Law, the university was formed in 1949 by the merger of the Tokyo Fine Arts School (東京美術学校, Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō) and the Tokyo Music School (東京音楽学校, Tōkyō Ongaku Gakkō), both founded in 1887. The former Tokyo Fine Arts School was then restructured as the Faculty of Fine Arts under the university.
Originally male-only, the school 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 abolition of the National School Establishment Law and the formation of the National University Corporations on April 1, 2004, the school became known as the Kokuritsu Daigaku Hōjin Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku (国立大学法人東京藝術大学). 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 some of the nation's most highly regarded art and music institutions the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of applied Arts, Vienna (Austria), the École des Beaux-Arts (France), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), the Royal Academy of Music (UK), the University of Sydney and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Australia), the Korea National University of Arts, and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Departments
Department of Fine Arts
(Includes undergraduate and graduate school programs)
Japanese Painting
Oil Painting
Sculpture
Craft
Design
Architecture and Planning
Aesthetics and Art History
Inter-media Arts
Global Art Practice
Conservation
Department of Music
(Includes undergraduate and graduate school programs)
Composition
Conducting
Vocal Music
Piano
Organ
String instruments
Wind and Percussion Instruments
Early Music
Musicology
Traditional Japanese Music
Musical Creativity and the Environment
Graduate School of Film and New Media
(Only for graduate students)
Film production
New media
Animation
Game and Interactive Arts
Graduate School of Global Arts
Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices
Organization
University Art Museum
University Library
University Orchestra
University Opera
Administration Office
Art Media Center
Center for Music Research
Geidai Art Plaza
Health Care Service Center
Institute of Ancient Art Research
Oversea Student Center
Photography Center
Performing Arts Center
Senior High School of Music
Sogakudo Concert Hall
Training Center for Foreign Language and Diction
Center for Curatorial Studies
Alumni
Others
Kenji Ekuan (industrial designer)
Eiji Aonuma (video game designer)
Li Zuixiong (conservation scientist)
Norio Ohga (former president of Sony / singer / conductor)
Rin' (pop group)
Faculty members
Masaki Fujihata (new media)
Kazue Kobata (inter-media arts)
Osamu Kido (sculpture)
Atsushi Kitagawara (architecture)
Takeshi Kitano (film)
Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi (conducting)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (film)
Toyomichi Kurita (film)
Joun Ōshima (sculpture), noted Japanese sculptor in the Meiji/Taisho/Showa periods
Meio Saitō (oil painting)
Tokihiro Satō (inter-media arts)
Michael W. Schneider (printmaking)
Takashi Shimizu (violin)
Kanzan Shimomura
Masaaki Suzuki (early music)
Ritsuko Taho (inter-media arts)
Toru Takahashi (education)
Kōun Takamura
Kenji Watanabe (piano)
Yoshiaki Watanabe (inter-media arts)
Koji Yamamoto (industrial arts)