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BFA Painting and Drawing

3 Years On Campus Bachelors Program

Concordia University

Program Overview

Painting and Drawing fuses traditional expertise and technique with cutting-edge contemporary approaches to artmaking. In this program, you can study virtually every approach to painting and drawing, from traditional oil painting to graphic novel production and 3D spatial installation. Your technical, formal and conceptual skills will be developed through focused studio production and instruction in theory, art history and cultural studies. Drawing incorporates a wide array of materials and explores gesture, mark making, the construction of visual space, as well as symbol and storytelling. In Painting classes, you will explore colour use, paint application, tools and techniques along with the formal language of painting and its use in abstract, figurative and hybrid/expanded modes.

Program Key Stats

$18288 (Annual cost)



50 %

Eligibility Criteria

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Additional Information & Requirements

"Higher School Certificate or Intermediate Certificate or Higher Secondary Certificate or Indian School Certificate or All India Senior School Certificate or Pre-University Certificate, A 3.00 CGPA (on a 4.30 scale) or the equivalent of a ""B"" grade at Concordia University, IELTS score of 7 or higher, TOEFL iBT score 90 or higher, MELAB min. score: 85, 3 on speaking test, CAEL minimum overall score 70, C1 Advanced and C2 Proficiency: min. score 190, Minimum overall PTE academic score of 61, final grade 11 and mid-term grade 12 results are used to calculate admissions averages, Portfolio, Letter of intent, Student copy of most recent transcripts, International Bacc. (IB): 27"

Career Options

  • Practising artist
  • Gallery or museum curator/docent
  • Commercial artist
  • Graphic designer/Graphic novelist
  • Medical illustrator
  • Arts administrator
  • Exhibition designer

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