About GAFA
学院概况
学校聚焦国家重大战略，与区域发展深度融合，以“艺科融合、科教融合、产教融合”为主线，主动服务区域经济文化建设，近年承担来自政府、企事业单位的600 余项委托创作设计项目，推出了包括深圳城雕《开荒牛》、珠海城雕《珠海渔女》、长沙橘子洲《青年毛泽东雕像》等具有高度社会影响力的公共艺术作品；先后承担香港、澳门两地回归的广东省政府礼品设计，人民大会堂广东厅，中国人民解放军海军博物馆，日本世博会中国馆，上海世博会主题馆及山西馆，海上丝路博物馆，中国陶瓷琉璃馆，长江文明馆等设计工程；设计2022年北京冬奥会吉祥物“冰墩墩”、广州城市LOGO等。这些成果为国家、区域的文化传播及产业转型升级提供了强有力的支撑。
With a focus on major national strategies, GAFA is profoundly involved in regional development. Following the principle of “integrating of art with science, science with education, and industry with education”, it proactively serves regional economic and cultural development. In recent years, GAFA has undertaken more than 600 creation and design projects from governments,enterprises and public institutions, creating a great number of impressive artworks, including Shenzhen’s city sculpture Pioneering Bull, Zhuhai’s city sculpture Zhuhai Fisherwoman, the statue of Mao Zedong in Youth on the Orange Island in Changsha, the design of Guangdong Provincial Government’s gifts in the commemoration of Hong Kong and Macao’s return to the motherland, the design and engineering of the Guangdong Hall of the Great Hall of the People, the PLA Naval Museum, China Pavilion of World Expo in Japan, as well as the Urbanian Pavilion and Shanxi Pavilion of World Expo Shanghai,Maritime Silk Road Museum, China Ceramics and Glass Museum, the Changjiang Civilization Museum, etc.; and the design of Bing Dwen Dwen, the mascot of the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games, and city logo of Guangzhou. All these efforts have rendered strong support for cultural communication and industrial transformation and upgrading of the region and beyond.
学校聚焦学科前沿、汇聚优势资源、聚集高层次人才，围绕人才培养、科学研究大力推进平台建设，近年来先后建成“设计技能教育国家级实验教学示范中心”和“广东现代广告创意中心”等国家级平台。建设广东省重点实验室、广东省高校人文社会科学重点研究基地、广东省社会科学研究基地、广东省非物质文化遗产研究基地、广东省协同创新中心、国际暨港澳台合作创新平台、中华优秀传统文化传承基地等省级科研平台16个。充分发挥政产学研协同育人合力，全面提升学校自主创新能力，形成对区域社会经济文化的有效支撑。
with a focus on the academic forefront, GAFA gathers superior resources and high-level talents, and vigorously promotes platform construction centering on talent cultivation and scientific research. In recent years, it has successively established national platforms such as the “National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of Design Skills Education” and “Guangdong Modern Advertising Creative Center”, and 16 provincial research platforms including Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory, Guangdong provincial key research bases of humanities and social sciences in universities, Guangdong provincial social sciences research bases, Guangdong provincial intangible cultural heritage research base, Guangdong Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center, a cooperation and innovation platform between Guangdong universities and their international, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan counterparts, and excellent Chinese traditional cultural heritage. These efforts have given full play to the cooperation of governments, industries, universities and research institutes, comprehensively improved the independent innovation capacity of the Academy,and provided effective support for regional social economy and culture.
学校教师获得包括中国美术奖‧终身成就奖、创作奖、理论评论奖，全国美展金、银、铜奖，中国设计贡献功勋人物金质奖，中国书法兰亭奖，教育部高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖，广东省哲学社会科学优秀成果奖，广东省鲁迅文学艺术奖（艺术类）等在内的数百项省级以上科研创作奖，多件作品入选文旅部等政府委托中华文明历史题材美术创作工程、庆祝中国共产党成立100周年大型美术创作工程、中国共产党与中华民族伟大复兴等国家重大题材美术创作工程。先后多次获得国家社科基金重大、重点项目，国家科技支撑计划课题，新世纪优秀人才支持项目等国家级科研项目。
GAFA faculty members have won hundreds of awards on academic research and artistic creation at provincial level or above, including Lifetime Achievement Award, Creation Award and Theoretical Review Award of China Fine Arts Awards, Gold, Silver and Bronze Award of National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Meritorious Personage Gold Award of China Design Contribution Award, Chinese Calligraphy Lanting Award, Outstanding Achievement Award of Academic Research in Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award, Lu Xun Literary and Arts Award (Art) of Guangdong Province. Many of their works have been included in major national themed art creation Project or government projects, such as Art Creation Project of Ancient Chinese Civilization, Art Creation Project in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of Communist Party of China, Major National Theme Art Creation Project on Communist Party of China and the Great Rejuvenation of the Nation, etc. They have received grants for their researches and creation efforts from various high-level national research programs, including National Social Science Fund (major and key projects), National Science and Technology Support Program, and the New Century Talent Support Program.
学校坚持社会主义办学方向，坚持以立德树人为根本任务，积极深化教育教学改革，不断提高教育教学质量。近三届教学成果奖评审中，获广东省特等奖1项、一等奖4项、二等奖3项。2021年我校《寓德于艺 美美与共——新时期大美育视角下原生创意美术人才培养模式研究与实践》获得广东省教学成果奖特等奖。近年来，学校学生在各类重要赛事与活动中取得优异成绩，如第十二届全国美展铜奖、第四届全国青年美展优秀奖、中国百家金陵画展（中国画）金奖、中国百家金陵画展（油画）金奖、中国首届插图艺术展最佳作品奖、中国人居环境设计学年奖、亚洲设计学年奖、CIDA中国室内设计大奖（学院奖）、国际知名的德国红点奖、iF设计奖、博朗设计奖、美国IDEA奖、SPAPK奖、中国创新设计红星奖、教育部全国大学生工业设计大赛金奖等，获各类重量级美术与设计大奖100多项。2016年学校获评“第三批广东省大学生创新创业教育示范学校”。近年来，学校毕业生初次就业率保持在94%以上，总体就业率位居全省前列，本科毕业生薪酬连续五年位列中国高校排行榜前100强，美术类高校前3强。
GAFA has been proactively deepening reforms in education and teaching to improve their quality following the guiding principle of “adhering to socialist education and nurturing talents with morality”. In the evaluation of the last three sessions of Teaching Achievement Award, GAFA was awarded one special prize, four first prizes and three second prizes by Guangdong Provincial Government. In 2021, it was awarded the special prize of Guangdong Provincial Teaching Achievement Award for “Integrating Morality with Art for Grand Beauty -- Research and Practice of Original and Creative Art Talent Training Mode from the Perspective of Great Aesthetic Education in the New Era”. In recent years, GAFA students have achieved outstanding results in various important competitions and events. They have won more than 100 important art/design prizes, including Bronze Award of the 12th National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Excellence Award of the 4th National Youth Art Exhibition, Gold Awards of Art Exhibition (Chinese Painting) in Nanjing China, Art Exhibition (Oil Painting) in Nanjing China, Best Works Award of China First Illustration Art Exhibition, China Habitat Environment Award, Asian Design Award, CIDA China Interior Design Award (Academy Award), and many internationally recognized awards including Red Dot Award, iF Design Award, Braun Design Award, IDEA Award of the United States, SPAPK Award, China Red Star Design Award, Gold Award of China Universities Industrial Design Competition (CUIDC) of the Ministry of Education. In 2016, GAFA was recognized as one of the third batch of Demonstrative Education Institutions for University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Guangdong Province. In recent years, the initial employment rate of GAFA graduates has remained above 94%, ranking high among universities in the province. Its average undergraduate salary has been ranking among top 100 in China, or top three among fine arts colleges, for five consecutive years.
学校有雄厚的师资力量，在建校近70年的历程中，涌现了诸如胡一川、杨秋人、阳太阳、关山月、黎雄才、王肇民、高永坚、迟轲、陈少丰、杨之光、潘鹤、郑餐霞、刘其敏、陈晓南、陈铁耕、张信让等彪炳史册的艺术大家。在当下，郭绍纲、陈金章、梁世雄、尹国良、郑爽、梁明诚、张治安、尹定邦、潘行健、王韧、王受之、杨尧、黎明、赵健、全森、吴卫光、方楚雄、郭润文、童慧明、李劲堃、黄启明、林蓝、范勃、蔡拥华等一批名师长期在我校执教。学校现有在职教职工974人，其中专任教师558人，正高级职称72人，副高级职称181人。教师队伍中，聚集了全国高校黄大年式教师团队，中国美术家协会副主席，广东省美术家协会主席、副主席，国务院学位委员会学科评议组成员，享受国务院政府特殊津贴专家，教育部新世纪优秀人才，教育部教学指导委员会副主任，中国美术家协会理事以及各艺术委员会主任、副主任，中国各美术与设计专业学会理事等一批优秀人才。
GAFA benefited greatly from a highly accomplished faculty in its nearly 70 years of development. Many renowned artists of epoch-making significance in art history once taught here, including Hu Yichuan, Yang Qiuren, Yang Taiyang, Guan Shanyue, Li Xiongcai, Wang Zhaomin, Gao Yongjian, Chi Ke, Chen Shaofeng, Yang Zhiguang, Pan He, Zheng Canxia, Liu Qimin, Chen Xiaonan, Chen Tiegen, Zhang Xinrang and others. Today, GAFA again gathers a number of well-established faculty members who have taught here for years, such as Guo Shaogang, Chen Jinzhang, Liang Shixiong, Yin Guoliang, Zheng Shuang, Liang Mingcheng, Zhang Zhi’an, Yin Dingbang, Pan Xingjian, Wang Ren, Wang Shouzhi, Yang Yao, Li Ming, Zhao Jian, Quan Sen, Wu Weiguang, Fang Chuxiong, Guo Runwen, Tong Huiming, Li Jinkun, Huang Qiming, Lin Lan, Fan Bo, Cai Yonghua, etc. GAFA currently has 974 faculty and staff members, including 558 full-time teachers. Among them, 72 hold senior professional titles and 181, associate senior professional titles. It brings together an outstanding collection of talents and teams, including National Huang Danian-style University Faculty Team, vice-chairman of China Artists Association, chairman and vice chairman of Guangdong Artists Association, members of the Discipline Appraisal Group of Academic Degrees Committee under the State Council, experts entitled to special government subsidies from the State Council, deputy director of the Teaching Steering Committee under the Ministry of Education, board members of China Artists Association and directors and deputy directors of its arts committees, as well as board members of various specialized art and design associations in China.
学校现有3个广东省“冲补强”提升计划重点建设学科——美术学、设计学、艺术学理论。在“冲补强”2018-2020年建设期满考核评价中，学校2个一级学科“美术学”“设计学”获评A等级，“艺术学理论”获评B等级。在2017年教育部组织的全国第四轮学科评估中，学校2个一级学科“美术学”“设计学”获评B+，“艺术学理论”获评B级，在广东省高校同类学科中位居首位，全国位居前列。
Three disciplines (Fine Arts, Design, Theories of Art Studies) of GAFA were selected as Key Disciplines under the Provincial Discipline Improvement Program, of which two first-level disciplines (Fine Arts, Design) were rated A and Theories of Art Studies was rated B in an evaluation held upon expiry of the discipline construction period (2018-2020). In the fourth round of the national discipline evaluation organized by the Ministry of Education in 2017, two first-level disciplines of GAFA, i.e. Fine Arts and Design, were rated B+ and the discipline of Theories of Art Studies was rated B, topping the province in said disciplines and ranking high among its peers nationwide.
近年来，学校主动适应国家和区域经济社会发展需要，适应知识创新、科技进步以及学科发展需要，结合学校办学定位和办学条件，深入推进学科专业一体化建设，不断优化专业建设机制，提高人才培养质量。学校现有美术学、绘画、雕塑、摄影、书法学、中国画、实验艺术、艺术设计学、视觉传达设计、环境设计、产品设计、服装与服饰设计、公共艺术、工艺美术、数字媒体艺术、艺术与科技、陶瓷艺术设计、戏剧影视美术设计、动画、影视摄影与制作、艺术教育、服装设计与工程、工业设计、建筑学、风景园林、艺术管理、文物保护与修复、包装设计28个专业29个专业方向。其中，教育部一流本科专业“双万计划”国家级建设点12个（动画、工业设计、工艺美术、美术学、实验艺术、书法学、中国画、绘画、雕塑、视觉传达设计、环境设计、产品设计），省级一流专业建设点6个（建筑学、风景园林、摄影、服装与服饰设计、数字媒体艺术、艺术与科技）；国家级专业综合改革试点项目专业1个，国家级特色专业4个；省级特色专业8个，省级重点专业2个，省级专业综合改革试点项目6个，省级应用型人才培养示范专业2个，在专业建设上正逐步形成关注社会需求，一流专业为支撑、多学科交叉融合、动态调整的专业发展格局。
In recent years, GAFA proactively responded to the needs of national and regional socioeconomic development and pursued knowledge innovation, S&T progress and discipline development. In view of its positioning and actual conditions, GAFA has worked to further promote the integration of disciplines and majors, constantly optimize the mechanism for discipline construction and improve talent training quality. Now it offers 29 pathways in 28 majors, including Fine Arts, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Calligraphy, Chinese Painting, Experimental Art, Art Design, Visual Communication Design, Environmental Design, Product Design, Clothing and Apparel Design, Public Art, Arts and Crafts, Digital Media Art, Art and Technology, Ceramic Art Design, Design for Theatre, Film and Television, Animation, Film and Television Photography and Production, Art Education, Clothing Design and Engineering, Industrial Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Art Management, Cultural Relics Conservation and Restoration, and Package Design. Among them, twelve undergraduate majors (Animation, Industrial Design, Arts and Crafts, Fine Arts, Experimental Art, Calligraphy, Chinese Painting, Painting, Sculpture, Visual Communication Design, Environmental Design, and Product Design) were recognized as National First-class Majors and another six majors (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Photography, Clothing and Apparel Design, Digital Media Art, Art and Technology), Provincial First-class Majors under the country’s “Double Ten Thousand Plan”, an initiative launched by the Ministry of Education to develop the first-class undergraduate majors and revitalize the undergraduate education in China. Other highlight majors include:
- One major as national Pilot for Comprehensive Syllabus Reform;
- Four national and eight Provincial Characteristic majors;
- Two Provincial Key Majors;
- Six provincial discipline reform pilot projects; and
- Two Provincial Demonstrative Majors for Practice-oriented Talent Training.
For undergraduate majors, GAFA has gradually developed a new pattern that emphasizes the demand of the society, first-class majors, multidisciplinary integration and dynamic adjustment.
现有昌岗校区、大学城校区和佛山校区（建设中）。学校现有12个学院和1个附属中等美术学校。目前，学校有本科生6158人，硕士研究生1124人，留学生14人。
With Changgang Campus, University Town Campus and Foshan Campus (under construction), GAFA currently has 12 schools and one affiliated secondary art school, which enroll a total of 6,158 undergraduates and 1,124 graduates, among whom, 14 are international students.
学校已与英国、法国、俄罗斯、加拿大、美国、德国、意大利、比利时、瑞士、日本、韩国、泰国、中国台湾等国家和地区，与英国格拉斯哥美术学院、俄罗斯列宾美术学院、俄罗斯苏里科夫美术学院、比利时安特卫普皇家艺术学院、瑞士苏黎世艺术大学、法国巴黎高等装饰艺术学院、加拿大多伦多大学、日本千叶大学、日本东京艺术大学、台北艺术大学等50余所艺术院校建立了交流与合作关系。学校选派优秀教师到国（境）外开展访学进修、交流和学术研究，与国（境）外合作院校互派学生进行交换学习、开展联合培养项目，举办各种类型的国际工作坊和讲学活动，引进高水平美术设计展览，举办高水平国际学术研讨会，聘请境外知名专家学者举行讲座和学术报告会。学校大力发展来华留学生教育，有序推进与国外高水平大学开展合作办学，积极扩大高等教育对外开放，努力提高办学国际化程度。依托学校学科优势，我校积极配合国家开展中外人文交流，在国际舞台展示我校学术研究成果和师生优秀创作，讲好中国故事，传播中国声音。
GAFA has forged close ties with more than 50 fine arts colleges from countries and regions around the globe, including the Great Britain, France, Russia, Canada, the United States, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and Taiwan of China. Its sister universities include the Glasgow School of Art, I.E. Repin St.-Petersburg State Academic Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, V.I. Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp of Belgium, Zurich University of the Arts, L’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs - Paris, University of Toronto, Chiba University, Tokyo University of the Arts, National Taipei University of the Arts. It has been a common practice for GAFA to arrange excellent teachers and students to study, exchange or conduct academic researches in other countries or regions, set up exchange programs and cooperative training programs with overseas sister universities, launch international workshops and lectures, high-level art and design exhibitions, and high-level international academic seminars, and invite renowned overseas experts and scholars to hold lectures and academic conferences. GAFA also vigorously promotes education for international students, advances cooperation in running schools with high-level international universities in an orderly fashion, actively expands the opening of higher education to the outside world to enhance the internationalization of its education programs. Based on its academic and disciplinary advantages, GAFA plays an active role in the cultural exchange programs between China an other countries. By presenting its academic research achievements and the excellent works of its faculty members and students to the outside world, GAFA is dedicated to telling China story well and having the country’s voice heard.
(2021年12月更新）
(Updatedin December 2021)
广州美术学院前身是中南美术专科学校，是根据国家建设布局，于1953年组建于湖北武汉的专门美术院校，时由中南文艺学院、华南人民文学艺术学院、广西艺专等院校相关系科和人员合并而成。首任校长为参加过延安文艺座谈会的著名革命美术家胡一川，首任副校长为著名油画家杨秋人，著名国画家关山月和阳太阳。
The predecessor of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA) was Central South College of Fine Arts, a fine arts school established in Wuhan, Hubei Province in 1953 in response to the then national higher education plan. It represented the merger of the Central South Institute of Art and Literature in Wuhan, South China Institute of Art and Literature in Guangzhou and Guangxi Institute of Art. The first president of the College was Hu Yichuan, a famous revolutionary artist who participated in the renowned Yan'an Literature and Art Symposium in 1942, and the first vice presidents were famous oil painter Yang Qiuren, and famous painters of Chinese painting Guan Shanyue and Yang Taiyang.
1958年中南美术专科学校由武汉南迁广州，更名为广州美术学院。1981年获全国首批硕士学位授予权，1987年开始招收外国及港澳台地区学生，2005年获准为国家首批艺术硕士（MFA）培养试点单位，2021年经国务院学位委员会审议批准，获批成为博士学位授予单位，美术学和设计学获批为一级学科博士学位授权点。学校目前有艺术学理论、美术学、设计学三个一级学科硕士学位授权点以及艺术、风景园林、文物与博物馆、教育四个专业学位硕士授权点。
In 1958, the College was moved from Wuhan to Guangzhou and renamed Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA). In 1981, GAFA became one of the country’s first institutions authorized to confer master’s degrees; in 1987, it began to recruit international students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In 2005, it was approved as one of the first pilots in China to launch Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program. In 2021, it was authorized by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee to confer doctor’s degrees in two first-level disciplines (Fine Arts, Design). Currently GAFA is also authorized to confer master’s degree in three first-level disciplines (Theories of Art Studies, Fine Arts, Design) and four majors (Art, Landscape Architecture, Cultural Heritage and Museology, Education).
学校坚持用习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想铸魂育人，贯彻党的教育方针，落实立德树人根本任务，坚持“守正创新、开放包容、关注现实、服务社会”的办学理念，经过60多年的发展，形成了把握时代脉搏，关注社会需求，以美术与设计创新能力培养为重点，以艺术学理论与人文教育为支撑，多学科交叉融合，产学研联动，主动为社会和经济发展服务的办学特色，凝练出“先学做人，再事丹青”的校训。
GAFA adheres to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in its education undertaking, and implements CPC’s education policies in fulfilling the fundamental task of nurturing talents with morality. Upholding the education philosophy of “being upright and innovative with an open and inclusive mindset, an insight into the reality and an aspiration for serving the society”, GAFA has developed its own educational characteristics following over six decades of evolution. Specifically, it focuses on developing students’ innovative ability in fine arts and design to meet the needs of the era and the society, and, based on the theories of art studies and humanistic education, promotes multidisciplinary integration, enables interaction between professional practices, education and research, and actively serves the social and economic development. The motto of GAFA is thus established as “learn morality before art”.
步入新时代，广州美术学院依托广东作为改革开放排头兵、先行地和实验区的优势，立足粤港澳大湾区，凭借历史、区位、经济发展、文化资源以及人才汇聚的多方面优势，以高起点、新作为推进人才培养、科研创作，更好为新时代社会发展提供服务，主动融入粤港澳大湾区建设等国家战略，乘着“一带一路”倡议的东风加速向前。
In the new era, GAFA is determined to develop high-caliber talents and boost academic research and artistic creation at a higher starting point through new initiatives. To make this happen, it will leverage the strengths of Guangdong Province as the pioneer, pilot and experimental field of the reform and opening up policy and those of the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) in historical, geographical, economic, cultural and intellectual resources. In this way, GAFA will better serve the social development in the new era, play an active role in implementing the national strategies like GBA development, and work towards a more promising future as driven by the country’s Belt and Road” initiative.
