5 Best Art Schools in Singapore (2026)

Avant-Garde Art Space is an art-jamming studio tucked inside an industrial building on Jalan Pemimpin, built around open-format painting sessions rather than a structured course curriculum. Sessions cover paper camera painting, DIY ukulele painting with a basic playing lesson thrown in, and free-form acrylic art jamming, with all materials, an instructor, and refreshments included. It reads less like a formal art school and more like a guided creative hangout, open every day until 10pm, worth knowing before you book expecting a graded course.

Visual Arts Centre is a Dhoby Ghaut art school and exhibition gallery running structured courses in drawing, painting, and digital art, including Procreate, for children, teens, and adults. Instructors like Jade and Jean get named repeatedly for patient, technique-focused teaching, from correcting pencil grip to guiding complete beginners through their first sketch. The centre also runs themed workshops, birthday parties, competitions, and venue hire alongside its regular course schedule, plus overseas art-immersion trips.

Tree Art's Lorong Chuan campus is a children's art school offering weekly classes plus holiday workshops and outdoor drawing events. Reviewers describe multi-year enrolments, with several families naming the same teachers, including ones nicknamed Bunny, Frogy, and Momo, who've taught their children for two to three years running. The school groups students by age and runs seasonal, movie-themed lessons alongside its core curriculum.

School of the Arts (SOTA) is a specialized government secondary and pre-tertiary school in Singapore combining the IB curriculum with focused training in visual arts, dance, music, theatre, and literary arts. It's worth being clear about what this is: SOTA is a selective, application-based school for teenagers pursuing a full academic and arts education, not a studio you can drop into for a class or workshop. Its listed reviews mostly describe visitor impressions from open houses and the building's architecture rather than the day-to-day teaching experience, since most reviewers are visitors rather than enrolled students or parents.

My Art Space is an Orchard Road art studio and gallery running since 2005, offering tutored painting classes, free-form art jamming, and, distinctively, multi-day guided sketching excursions led by artist Chankerk to destinations across Malaysia. The waterfront-facing studio near Dhoby Ghaut MRT is designed for flexible timing rather than a fixed term structure, and reviewers describe both in-studio classes and the excursions in detail. It's part art school, part travel operator, for people who want to sketch somewhere new.