MA Fine Arts LASALLE College of the Arts

Overview

This MA Fine Arts programme at LASALLE College of the Arts concerns in contemporary art-making attract a diverse body of students who cross disciplines and geographies. In a multidisciplinary peer learning environment, you are supported to build your artistic vocabulary by pursuing high-level independent research as required for professional arts residencies, archival and fieldwork and PhD study. Through rigorous studio experimentation and innovation, you engage with emerging critical, theoretical and historical discourses to develop your practice. 

Singapore's strategic geographic and culturally connected position in Asia and its investment in arts infrastructure have created numerous opportunities for artists to connect globally and engage with contemporary art discourse. The programme plugs centrally into this development, providing you sustainable career opportunities as artists.

Located within the McNally School of Fine Arts, you will be exposed to a wide range of expertise. Faculty, many of whom are award-winning artists and scholars in their own right, provide individualised supervision alongside a roster of international visiting artists, curators and critics.

The programme is renowned for producing numerous award-winning artists working globally, having represented in major biennales and art fairs, curated exhibitions and museum shows, residencies and art competitions, commercial and not-for-profit galleries, and as artist-researchers and educators. It continues to do so.

Why apply

Practice-led and studio-based learning: Immerse in a range of educational approaches that include lectures, workshops, seminars, group discussions and critiques, presentations and individual tutorials, all of which culminate in a final research project comprising an exhibition of artworks and a supporting document in the form of an exegesis.

Independence and autonomy: Learn to be self-motivated, and engage in independent visual and theoretical research, as well as develop the ability to evaluate your own work and expand your awareness of the critical developments in contemporary art.

Professional practice and community: Be exposed to a range of contemporary art practices and models of engagement through guest speakers and group critiques.

Study trip and intercultural immersion: Learn how artists and art communities respond to differing social and cultural contexts in the production of art through visits to artists' studios, galleries, biennales and art spaces, and gain invaluable research opportunities through networking with local art communities.