Flexible and alert to the changes in our world and the intertwined relationship between learning, teaching, practice and research, our students are encouraged to formulate an individual vision of the world, whether intuitive or historical and theoretically conscious and through a common visual language share this with others. The result is a School that is creative, dynamic, relevant and definitely not standing still - welcome to the School of Fine Art.

• The School of Fine Art has three specialist undergraduate departments: Painting & Printmaking, Sculpture & Environmental Art and Fine Art Photography and an internationally renowned multidisciplinary two year Masters of Fine Art course.
• The School of Fine Art is an international community attracting emergent artists from across the globe. Over 60% of students on the MFA are from overseas and many students choose to stay in Glasgow after graduation making the City one of the largest and most cosmopolitan creative communities in the UK.
• The Friday Event - a series of public lectures, performance and film screenings by internationally recognised speakers and artists, in an integral part of the Fine Art Course, open to the public, bringing the School and the wider community together.
• Graduates of the School of Fine Art include Turner Prize winners Simon Starling and Douglas Gordon, Turner Prize nominees Jim Lambie and Christine Borland and Jerwood Prize nominees Carol Rhodes and Alison Watt
• Graduates of the School of Fine Art won the Becks Futures award three times since its inception in 2000 - Roddy Buchanan, Toby Paterson and Rosalind Nashashibi. GSA graduates featured in every nomination list and in 2003 four out of the 10 nominees were GSA graduates
• Staff from the School have work in major public and private collections across the world including the Tate Modern
• Graduate Martin Boyce was the only artists selected to represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2009. In 2007 five of the six artists chosen to represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale were GSA graduates. All of the artists chosen to represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2005 were GSA graduates -Alex Pollard, Joanne Tatham, Tom O'Sullivan and Cathy Wilkes. At the Biennale 2003, 70% of the artists chosen to represent contemporary art in Scotland were graduates from the GSA School of Fine Art including Claire Barclay, Simon Starling and Jim Lambie  
• The Here+Now exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Art, a survey of contemporary art is Scotland from 1990 - 2000 featured work from 53 artists. 47 were graduates of the GSA School of Fine Art.
• Staff and students exhibition internationally and in recent years students from the MFA have exhibited in Beijing, New York, Berlin, Brussels, Chicago, Rotterdam and Mexico City
• The research programme brings recognised artists, highly research active staff and PhD students together including our Senior Research Fellow Professor Thomas Joshua Cooper, described by the Observer newspaper as one of the greatest landscape artists of our time. Professor Cooper received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009.