Arts & Humanities (MFA)

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The MFA Arts & Humanities at the RCA is an innovative degree and growing global community. We promote research-led making and thinking through electives such as Poetics of Care, Sites and Situations, Synthetic Encounters, Curatorial Approaches, and Performing Practice. Central to the programme is the LIVE unit, which embeds students in professional contexts to test and develop new practices. We foster dynamic, critical dialogue to examine the conditions and possibilities of arts and humanities today, in theory and practice.

Adam Kaasa / Joanne Tatham, Co-Academic Leads

Our students

Installation view of Small Oil featuring a red neon sign and a photographic print of an oil spill site in West Texas, framed by steel pipes and illuminated in orange light. Cassidy Conway Cole
The Water Is Always Here artwork in blue by Maria Bacha Maria Bacha
the inaugural BAKĪ ÁJĀ’ group exhibition, Curated and Programmed by Odera. A’isha (Odera) Usman-Mu’azu
A close-up image showing a translucent skin-like surface made by silicone from Siyang Wang, featuring red and blue thread-like or vein-like lines. Some areas have visible holes and air bubbles. The overall texture appears moist and fleshy, with dominant tones of pale pink, off-white, and light red. Siyang Wang
an unfired burnished clay sphere sits atop a pile of salt on a charcoal drawing. Fiona Morehouse
participants playing badminton in a public space Dora Grabkowska
A sculptural installation resembling a conveyor belt, displaying symbolic dish-like sculptures made of mixed materials, set on a white-covered table in a showroom-like space. Ani Syu / Tzu-En Hsu
salt skin ~ deer root (2025) Aarti Pillai
Oil on canvas 36 x 24 inches Mehmood ul Hassan
RCA degree show 2025 Salomée Souag
Image of the artist Pamela Colman Smith by contemporary artist Coral Woodbury Vashti Cassinelli
A door curtain woven from hair, suspended in mid-air. Alice（Yuanhao Jiang）
Installation view Junghun Lee
Body microcosm, man looking at fire, contemplating about nature of reality Ritesh Khowal
its an installation by Aswin John which he did in RCA 2025 final show, it consist of 25 riso prints with a video performance Aswin John
Installation view Yoichi Ishida
A collage of six black-and-white drawings by Binbin Hao. Faceless bodies float and collapse within cell-like patterns and flowing lines, expressing emotional addiction, fragility, and entanglement. Binbin Hao
An image from Amanda Hansavathy's film Madanm Coolie - An Intro (2025). Amanda is stood face to face with a white cotton stuffed doll that is dressed in the red East India Company uniform. The doll is hung by a rope and its head is bent downwards towards her. Black curtains are draped behind them and they stand on a red rug on the floor. She is wearing a black bandeau top and black leggings and the names of the women in her family archive are painted in red on her body. Amanda Hansavathy
a woman is strangulated in a curtain while another looks at her in shock Shah Numair Ahmed Abbasi
Tracing Winstanley, a collaborative project with Mengshuo Wu. Siyu Chen
Photographic installation titled The Reluctant Participant, featuring nine projected images arranged on a dark gallery wall. A dark-walled gallery installation showing nine photographic prints of various sizes, projected using mapped light. The images include a black-and-white photo with the words “No Rules. Great Scotch.” next to a person lying on the pavement; a photo of a blurred woman looking at another woman in focus; a messy, unmade bed; an empty bench in a tiled hallway; quiet interior scenes; and street moments with people in motion. Each print is bordered with light, appearing to float off the wall. The overall tone is muted and observational, reflecting themes of distance, hesitation, and quiet presence. Jude Stanley Crisostomo
Two paintings on canvas showing lilac bananas/plantain on sandy background. On the right canvas, bananas hanging from a tree. On the left canvas, a pail of bananas sitting in banana leaves. Daudi Kakooza Kaggwa
Ceramic works with an abstract landscape in the background. Detail of a mother pelican feeding a human figure her blood. Parker Greenwood
A man sitting inside of a sculpture made of wool Camille Britton
Painted Fragment, Infinity Ring and Waxing Moons Arthur Poujois
Dwelling in the liminal, 160 x 120 cm, Oil on canvas, softwood, 2025 Mengyuan Tong
The Unfinished Meal Longfei Jiang
Still images from Sky Listening depict skies layered with textual descriptions of surrounding sounds. Mia Baraka
An East Asian woman sits silently at the centre of a round table, wearing a pale yellow floor-length dress that seamlessly extends into the tablecloth. The food on the table has been eaten, leaving only scattered traces. A guest seated at the edge of the table is leaning forward, using a part of the dress-tablecloth to wipe their mouth. Tingen Xiao
A partial view of a suspended hanging lamp, showing its textured surface and warm light glow. Mengyi Zhang
‘Drifting’ in RCA2025 Yili Ma
A large linen canvas suspended from branches in a natural setting, depicting an abstract black line drawing of the source of the River Thames. Evelyn Xinyi Hu
mulitcolored figure somewhat abstracted smiling with tissue in nose. The sentence "must have been the wonderful food" is written in the top right hand corner. Matt Kellison
Exhibition site Mengshuo Wu
These collages are experimental works based on seaweed ink rubbings, arranged in an irregular hanging matrix. Jinglin Wang
Eight smiling sculpture heads in a box fleshy foam box Rida E Zainab
Manon Alexander Van der Byl
Mom, It's Cold Here Tanya Rivera Diaz
Double Exposure Image of two women Tori Tanigawa
Congkak's Dilemma Hao Wang
Installation Work Yuanye Qiu
A large wall-mounted kinetic installation resembling a digestive or laboratory system. Glass vessels, red and black tubing, and transparent tanks circulate colored fluids. Crumpled tissues are scattered on the ground below. Junhan Zhu
Exhibition Lingxi Zhou
Object Used for Divination Levin Stettler Brogli
“Where Am I Going?” (72" by 48") Emily Brissenden
Your Free Nation 1 Yoyojin (Hojin Im)
Portrait 1 Alejandra Miguel Dada
A busy painting of a china shop filled with various crockery including plates, bowls, and teapots densely arranged on shelves. Rida Zahra Kalyar
Choco—late Keru Qian
A red and green comic cover, featuring a masculine woman embracing the silhouette of another woman, with the title "Lobsterette Roll" Gabriela Lehmann Rodriguez
Ten Yibing Jiang
A painting created using snaah—a traditional saffron and mahlep bridal perfume—as pigment, depicting the mountainous and arid landscapes of Siji, a village in Northern UAE. The textured, earthy tones reflect the cultural and ecological character of the region. The use of snaah connects the artwork to memory and tradition, symbolizing the lives and movements of the village’s inhabitants, with the land portrayed as both subject and medium. Roudhah Al Mazrouei
man kneeling and lifting arms in offering position Chris Kitisakkul
Malterna Venus Angele Lautier
A large multi-panel abstract painting displayed on a white gallery wall, featuring fragmented geometric forms in deep purples, blues, and muted tones, with a small black-and-white digital screen embedded between panels. Hongil Yoon
Photograph of Body as a Canvas Artwork titled Full Bodied. Artists body painted mixed media and oil paint, photographed Alison Dollery