123 PhD programmes in Visual Arts

The Associated Faculty of the Arts at KU Leuven, in cooperation with LUCA School of Arts - Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels is responsible for organizing the PhD in the Arts program and awarding the doctoral degree in the arts.

Embark on a journey that delves into cross-cultural, interdisciplinary explorations of performance, broadly defined. We offer a Theater and Performance Studies degree at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

The Aberystwyth University DProf programme combines taught modules with research conducted by students under the supervision of staff who have expertise in the topic of study.

PhDArts offers an international, high-level doctorate in art and design. The PhDArts research trajectory consists of two elements: individual research and participation in the doctoral study programme. An appropriate team of supervisors is sought for each doctoral student. 

The Studio Art programme of Burren College of Art can be taken as a full-time, part-time, or hybrid (part-time with full-time periods of study).

The aim of the Art and Design (Postgraduate Research) programme offered by the University of Wolverhampton is to give each student the best possible foundation from which to launch further research and career development. 

This Contemporary Art and Activism PhD at Robert Gordon University would examine aspects of the vexed relationship between art and activism.

The programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong provides academic training for students to conduct advanced research on history, theory and studio practice of Chinese art. It adopts an all-inclusive approach to Chinese Art - traditional, modern, international and contemporary.

The Art programme at Manchester Metropolitan University will help you advance or change your career, deepen your expertise, and expand your research and practical skills.

The Art History discipline at The Open University UK has a strong specialisation in Early Modern Art and Visual Culture that extends from Byzantine art to Northern Europe and the Italian Renaissance.

An intensive program at University of Georgia with tracks in Art Education and Art History. Students engage in intensive research and work closely with faculty mentors. They procure jobs at universities and museums and routinely secure tenure track and curatorial positions.

The School of Arts at the University of Westminster is home to the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media (CREAM), one of the most successful and highly rated Arts research centres in the UK. The University of Westminster and its courses are located in London.

The Arts, Memory and Communities programme offered by Coventry University investigates the relationships between arts, culture, memory, heritage, identity, and community engagement through interdisciplinary and practice-based research.

The Ph.D. in Visual Arts at Western University - Canada provides advanced training in art history, visual culture, and creative practices in contemporary art and new media. 

This Yugoslavism in Contemporary Art PhD degree at Robert Gordon University call seeks an art/cultural historian or practising artist or curator, to conduct research into an aspect or aspects, of the persistence of the Yugoslav past in present post-Yugoslav visual culture.

The Visual Arts program at the University of California, San Diego consists of two degree paths: Art History, Theory and Criticism and Art Practice, a concentration designed for artists engaged in advanced research who wish to pursue their work in an environment geared to doctoral study, and to produce studio, media, performance or public facing work alongside a written dissertation.

The Media Arts and Creative Technologies programme at RISEBA University focuses on arts research based on creative practices and the transformative potential of digital technologies, offering academically advanced studies in the use of digital technologies in various media environments, immersive platforms and audiovisual arts.

The Experimental Research through Design, Art and Technologies course from Free University of Bozen-Bolzano aims to train a new generation of researchers capable of embracing the opportunities offered by the convergence of design, art, social sciences, humanities and technology, integrating complex knowledge to address multiple global challenges from a post-disciplinary perspective

A University of Hertfordshire PhD degree in Creative Arts is an internationally recognised research degree signifying very high levels of achievement in research, and an original contribution to knowledge in the student’s chosen field.

The Digital Art and Technology course at University of Plymouth involves creating new experiences through the design and construction of networked, sensing and intelligent ‘things’ and software. Digital Practice is central to exploring the significance that data, its harvesting, processing and manifestation, can play in contemporary culture.