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Current Students 2026

3rd Year

Name Research Theme
SAQFALHAIT Ahmad Playful Resistance/Play for Resistance: Exploring Social Impact through Game Design
ZHOU Qingyi A Study of Painting on Contemporary Critique in “Eating, Drinking, Urination, Defecation, and Sleep” — Focusing on the Collapse of Everyday Life
ZHANG Zhiying A consideration of the between ‘Reproducibility’ in Graphic Design and ‘Identity’ of the Thought
ZHENG Jiaojiao A Study on Book Design for Visualizing the Cyclical Life Structure in Miao Creation Myths and Soul-Guiding Songs
LAN Ting Expression through Alienation: Dissolving the Social Gestures of Things


2nd Year

Name Research Theme
ARAI Midori The Automatism and Physicality Inherent in the Act of Drawing: On the Traces of Painting and the Relationship Between the Body and Time
XU Shengqi A Study and Practice of Typographic Spatial Construction Based on Visual Perception
KORMAN Benjamin Jonah Remake, homage, satire: Recasting the film director as cultural translator, workshop facilitator, and artist-practitioner
ZHENG Anwei The Power of Nostalgia: Identity Formation and the Structures within Regional Art Practices
MORITA Tomohiro A Study of Shozo Shimamoto’s work: his Activities in the “Gutai Art Association” after September 1957
LEE Christopher Seeking the Occluded Performatics of Graphic and Typographic Design Education and Practice
LU Ping Providing Narrative Experiences Based on the Affinity Between Picture Books and Installations


1st Year

Name Research Theme
KATO Mai The Void and Emptiness in Iron Sculpture: Julio González and Pablo Picasso
Katrin Bjoerg GUNNARSDOTTIR Exhibitions as Ecological Assemblages: Practice-Based Curatorial Methods for Working with Nonhuman Agencies
GOI Yukako Creation and Faith of Henry Darger: Focused on the Sacred Heart and Heaven
ZOU Na Coexisting with Contradiction: Spaces of Generation and Collapse Transformed by Place
TAKEUCHI Miki The Transformative Interplay of Image and Body in Painting
PENG Chuyue Narrative Construction of Landscape in Painting Practice: A Focus on Spatial Collage