"Assistant Professor in Painting/Printmaking (Tenure Track)"

Job Details

The Yale University School of Art invites applications from throughout the world for an assistant professor tenure track faculty appointment in the area of Painting and Printmaking to begin July 1, 2026. The school serves students from all over the country and world. Candidates must hold an MFA or equivalent degree.

A fully engaged presence on campus is required as well as a willingness to actively participate in service and collaboratively shape the future of the Painting/Printmaking area at the School of Art. The faculty member will also actively serve undergraduate art majors by designing new courses and collaborating with the Director of Undergraduate Studies. The faculty member will initially assist the Director of Graduate Studies on student facing communication and coordination and eventually be among a group of faculty expected to rotate the department’s leadership.

The successful candidate will teach both graduate and undergraduate level courses, advise graduate and undergraduate students, oversee master’s theses, participate in critique sessions, mentor students, serve on School and University committees, and actively contribute to and participate in the school’s vibrant co-curricular programming.

Qualifications

We seek a working artist with a primary focus on painting and/or printmaking, or their expanded categories. The candidate should have an active and engaged exhibition record, as well as a strong technical background and conceptual grounding in the medium and history of painting. A minimum of 3 years college-level teaching and service experience, and an ongoing, excellent, and dynamic art practice is required. A knowledge of the discourses around contemporary art and an ability to address works across disciplines are necessary.

Application Instructions

To apply, please submit the following materials:

• A letter of application
• Curriculum vitae with relevant professional and teaching experience
• Names and contact info of three references
• A sample syllabus for a painting, drawing, or printmaking course, and a course proposal for a “dream” course at the graduate level
• 20 images of recent work
• Student evaluations from prior college level courses

Review of applications begins October 1, 2025. Yale University.

Company

The mission of the Yale School of Art is to provide students with intellectually informed, hands-on instruction in the practice of an array of visual arts media within the context of a liberal arts university. As a part of the first institution of higher learning to successfully integrate a studio-based education into such a broad pedagogical framework, the Yale School of Art has a long and distinguished history of training artists of the highest caliber. A full-time faculty of working artists in conjunction with a diverse cross-section of accomplished visiting artists collaborate to design a program and foster an environment where the unique talents and perspectives of individual students can emerge and flourish.

The School of Art is founded on the belief that art is a fundamental force in national and international culture, and that one of the primary standards by which societies are judged is the quality, creative freedom, critical insight, and formal and technical innovation of the visual art they produce. The Yale School of Art teaches at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and consequently the student body consists of those whose primary or exclusive focus is art as well as those for whom art is an essential part of a varied course of inquiry. The school currently offers degrees and undergraduate majors in the areas of graphic design, painting/printmaking, photography, and sculpture.