Lista de talleres de dibujo de la vida en todo el mundo.
This page provides examples of art studios and universities where life models are employed throughout the world.
Click here to see extensive listings for these specific countries: Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Worldwide
- Art Schools, Colleges, and Universities Around the World – extensive worldwide list
- Art Renewal Center (ARC) Approved Ateliers – extensive listing of realistic fine art ateliers
- AskEdu – lists classes worldwide, searchable by city (use search terms “figure drawing” and “life drawing”)
- LoveLifeDrawing.com: Classes – provides an extensive listing of life drawing classes throughout the world
- Listing of figure drawing classes in several countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, USA, Ireland, China, France, Belgique, South Africa). This site also offers any model to post a personal online profile free.
- Meetup.com listing of all figure drawing Meetups
- Meetup.com listing of all life drawing Meetups
- Meetup.com listing of all models for figure drawing Meetups
- Figure Drawing Classes, Workshops, Open Studios for 900 art schools, studios, and groups in the United States and Canada – Extensive list of figure modeling opportunities in the US and Canada, sponsored by The Art Model’s Handbook: The Naked Truth about Posing for Art Classes and Fine Artists
- Lifedrawingposes.com – Worldwide listing of life drawing classes
- ArtMod – Worldwide directory of artists and models. Includes list of life modeling sessions in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Miami
- ArtSearch – Comprehensive list of art resources, including art models and classes
- AskEdu Worldwide Catalog – Lists several life drawing training classes around the world
- LifeArt workshops – Provides listing of life drawing workshops listed by country.
- Bohemia Artists’ Models Register –Free listing of life models throughout the world
- University Directory Worldwide – Lists art programs throughout the world, filtered by country and program (Arts and Fine Arts)
American Samoa
- American Samoa Community College – Mesepa, Western (life drawing classes)
Argentina
- Article about Anna Rank’s life drawing classes at the Guillermo Roux Centre in Buenos Aires – See link to Anna Rank for contact information.
- Alberto Pecznik Artista Plastico – Buenos Aires (life drawing and painting workshops)
- Centro Cultural General San Martín – Buenos Aires (figure drawing workshops)
- Espacio a – Buenos Aires (life drawing classes)
- Espacio de arte de Georgina Ruiz – Buenos Aires (life drawing workshop)
Armenia
- Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts & Theatre – Yerevan (life drawing and sculpture)
Australia
See page listing life drawing sessions in Australia
Austria
- Academy of Fine Arts – Vienna (life drawing and painting classes)
- Margit Preis – Vienna (figure drawing classes)
Bahamas
- Popopstudios Center for the Visual Arts – Nassau (Introduction to Drawing with figure modeling)
Bangladesh
- Orpita Rehnuma Khanom -Bangladesh (facebook page for nude photography model)
Barbados
- Cricket Legends of Barbados Studio School – Bridgetown (nude figure drawing classes)
Belgium
- Academie-Beeldende Kunst-Mortsel – Mortsel (life drawing classes)
- Academies of Fine Arts – Brussels, Flanders (life drawing, painting, and sculpting classes)
- Flemish Classical Atelier – Bruges (open figure drawing session & figure drawing and painting classes)
- Hogeschool Gent – Gent (figure drawing classes)
Bermuda
- Bermuda Society of Arts – Hamilton (life drawing sessions)
Bolivia
- Taller de Artes Visuales – Santa Cruz de la Sierra (life drawing sessions)
Brazil
- Innovation Creative Space: Escola de Arte e 3D – São Paulo (life drawing classes)
Bulgaria
- Academy of Music, Dance and Visual Arts – Plovdiv (figure drawing classes)
- American University in Bulgaria – Sofiya (figure drawing classes)
Cayman Islands
- National Gallery of the Cayman Islands (life drawing sessions)
Canada
See page listing life drawing sessions in Canada
Chile
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile – Santiago (human figure drawing classes)
China
Locations
- Undefine Art Gallery – Shanghai (life drawing sessions). Announcements made in Shanghai Sketch Group Meetup Group.
Articles
- History of nude modeling in China. English People’s Daily Online, Aug. 30, 2012.
- Naked truth challenges values (2012-10-19) – Southwest University for Nationalitie, Chengdu, Sichuan province (This article also notes that “nude models in drawing, photography and sculpture” was “introduced to China about 100 years ago”).
Columbia
- Universidad National de Columbia – Bogota (life drawing classes)
Costa Rica
- Universidad Veritas – San José (life drawing classes)
Crete
- David Capon and Michaela Raeburn – professional artists on Crete – Chania (life drawing classes)
Croatia
- University of Zagreb – Zagreb (figure drawing classes)
Cyprus
- Alexander College – Aradhipou, Larnaca (life drawing classes)
- The Cornaro Institute – Larnaca (life drawing sessions)
- Cyprus College of Art – Larnaca (life drawing classes)
- Evening Life Drawing Sessions – Nicosia (life drawing)
Czech Republic
- Academy of Fine Arts – Prague (figure drawing and sculpture)
- ArtSchool – Brno (life drawing sessions)
Denmark
- AlleKanTegne – Copenhagen, Denmark (life drawing)
East Timor
- Rocio Alcaman – Dili (figure drawing classes at Arte Moris)
Ecuador
- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador – Quito (life drawing classes)
Egypt
General background
- No nudes is bad news for Cairo art students – 2008 article about how Cairo’s School of Fine Arts was forced to abandon nude life drawing classes in the 1970s, and how students get around this by posing for each other privately
Specific
- reem279.deviantart.com – Reference to figure drawing class offered in Egypt
Ethiopia
- Addis Ababa University – Addis Ababa (figure drawing classes)
Finland
- ilmonet – lists life drawing classes offered in the Helsinki area (including at the Visual Arts Center, Cable Factory, Kanneltalo, College Center for the Arts, Oula Village Hall, and Helsinki Institute of Adult Education)
France
Video clips
- Extended video clip about life modeling (in French) [contains nudity]
- Video snippet of life model class in France [contains nudity]
“La nuit du modèle vivant” : le nu au fusain à Lille [contains nudity]
Specific locations
- Boulangerie Pâtisserie de l’Art – Esperanza (life drawing classes). See also Katrina Head blog page
- Graphic Design Art – Montpellier (figure drawing sessions)
- L’Ecole Albert Defois – Maine-et-Loire (figure drawing)
- le perchoir des paons – Gindou (life drawing sessions)
- Paris Life Drawing Group – Paris (life drawing sessions)
- Studio Escalier – Paris (private studio art school for drawing and painting life models)
- Yann Hovadik workshops – Nancy (life drawing and painting workshops)

Bathers by Paul_Cezanne. Public domain.
Germany
YouTube video of life drawing workshop in Odenwald, Germany
- Akt-Workshop bei Olga Malkovskaja [contains nudity]
Specific locations
- Berlin Art Class – Berlin (life drawing classes)
- Berlin Drawing Room – Berlin (life drawing classes)
- Free Art School Cologne – Cologne (life drawing classes)
- Kölner Malschule – Cologne (life drawing)
- Life Drawing Berlin – Berlin (life drawing)
- Life Drawing with Nude Model in Berlin – Berlin (life drawing)
Greece
- The Aegean Center for the Fine Arts – Cyclades (life drawing classes)
Hong Kong
- Body-Arts Association (life drawing sessions)
- Spitting Gecko – Shek Kip Mei (open life drawing sessions). This group also has an associated blog page, Art-Now and Tomorrow: Ramblings of a Hong Kong Artist.
- Life Drawing Community in Wan Chai, Hong Kong – HKpainter Studio – Wan Chai (open life drawing sessions)
Hungary
- Hungarian University of Fine Arts – Budapest (life drawing classes)
- Life Drawing – Budapest (“English friendly” open life drawing sessions)
Iceland
- Reykjavik School of Visual Art – Reykjavík (life drawing classes)
India
See page listing life drawing dessions in India
Indonesia
- Teguh Ostenrik – South Jakarta (figure drawing sessions and sculpture classes)
Iran
General
- Art Education in Iran: Women’s Voices (aticle about life drawing in Iran, where nude drawings are not officially sanctioned, but art students are challenging these limits)
- Fashion Modeling and Art Studio – Tehran (with examples of artistic nude photography)
Specific Locations
- Al-Zahra University – Tehran (plaster cast and fully clothed figure drawing and painting only)
- University of Tehran – Tehran (plaster cast and fully clothed figure drawing and painting only)
Ireland
- Airfield House – Dublin (Dundrum) (life drawing sessions)
- The Art Hand Art School – Waterford (life drawing classes)
- City Life Drawing – Dublin (unstructured life drawing)
- Classical Life Drawing, Dublin, Meetup – Dublin (life drawing)
- Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane – Dublin (life drawing classes)
- Dublin Life Drawing – Dublin (life drawing classes)
- The Limerick Figure Drawing Society – Limerick (life drawing sessions)
- Limerick School of Art & Design – Limerick (life drawing classes)
- The Lantern Centre – Dublin (life drawing classes)
- Mount Joy Square Arts Group – Dublin (life drawing sessions)
- My Art Class – Galway (life drawing)
- Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery – Dublin (life drawing classes)
- St. John’s Central College – Cork (life drawing classes)
- Siamsa Tire – Co Kerry (life drawing classes)
- United Arts Club – Dublin (life drawing sessions)
- Waterford Institute of Technology – Waterford (life drawing sessions)
- Wexford Art Center – Wexford (life drawing sessions)
Also:
irish-art.com listing of life models in several Irish cities.
Israel
- Avni Institute of Art and Design – Tel Aviv (life drawing sessions)
- Hatahana Studio for Figurative Arts – Tel Aviv (life drawing classes)
- Jerusalem Studio School (JSS) – Jerusalem (life drawing classes)
- L’atelier Tel Aviv – Tel Aviv (life drawing instruction)
- Tel Aviv Art Studio – Tel Aviv (life drawing sessions)
Italy
- Accademia del Giglio – Florence (provide year round classes and workshop in lifedrawing)
- Angel Academy of Art – Florence (life painting)
- Art Schools in Florence – Lists several art schools in Florence
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Art Umbria – Montegabbione
(life drawing classes)
- Atelier Canova – Rome (figure drawing and painting)
- Charles H. Cecil Studios – Florence (life drawing and painting)
- Florence Academy of Art – Florence (life drawing, painting, and sculpture)
- The Florence Art Studio – Florence (figure drawing and painting)
- The Retreat – Le Marche (life drawing classes)
- Russian Academy of Art – St Petersburg, Russia and Florence, Italy
Jamaica
- Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts – Kingston (figure drawing and painting)
- The University of the West Indies at Mona – Kingston (life drawing classes)
Japan
- Ebisu Alelier D’Art – Tokyo (life drawing classes)
- Croquis Michaelangelo – Osaka (life drawing). See also Life Drawing for all Art , all Design Osaka Kansai Japanクロッキー会ミケランジェロ (Facebook page)
- Ltd Art Model – Hamamatsu (life drawing sessions)
- LifeDrawing.Tokyo – Tokyo (open life drawing sessions)
- White Hands – Niigata Prefecture (open life drawing sessions as relationship therapy for Japanese men)
Kenya
- Life Drawing Classes – Nairobi (weekly life drawing)
- Kuona Trust – Nairobi (life drawing workshops)
Luxembourg
- Lycée technique des Arts et Métiers – Luxemburg City (life drawing classes)
Malaysia
- Art is Seni – Kuala Lumpur (figure drawing classes)
- Limkokling University of Creative Technology – Borneo, Kucking (lectures and courses in life drawing)
Malta
- Malta Society of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce – Valletta (figure and portrait drawing classes)
- University of Malta – Msida (life drawing and painting classes)
Mexico
- Casa de Cultura – Queretaro (life drawing workshops)
- Dibuo Desnudo – Mexico City (life drawing)
- El Dibujante Gallery – Guanajuato (weekly life drawing sessions)
- Golem Escuela de Artes Audiovisuales – Juarez (life drawing classes)
- Instituto Tecnologico Y De Estudios Superiores De Occidente Departamento Del Habitat Y Desarrollo Urbano – Guadalajara – (Dibujo de figura humana )
The Netherlands
- Atelier Modeltekenen – Zoetermeer (open life drawings sessions)
- Drawing and Painting in Amsterdam – Amsterdam (lists life drawing and painting sessions)
- Mixtup – Amsterdam (life drawing)
- Portret-en-Modelgroep – Amsterdam (life drawing)
- The Open Draw – Amsterdam (life drawing sessions)
- Weekly Figure Drawing at Amsterdam’s Westerdok (Meetup Group) – Amsterdam (life drawing sessions)
New Zealand
See page listing life drawing sessions in New Zealand
Nigeria
- Auchi Polytechnic – Auchi (life drawing classes)
- Yaba College of Technology – Lagos (figure drawing classes)
Norway
- Torhild Ramberg Studio – Steinkjer, Nord-Trøndelag (figure drawing and painting)
Papua New Guinea
- University of Papua New Guinea – Port Moresby (life drawing classes)
Peru
- Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes del Perú – Lima (life drawing classes)
Philippines
- De La Salle University – Manila (life drawing classes)
- University of San Carlos – Cebu City (life drawing classes)
- Wunderkind Manila – Quezon City (open life drawing sessions)
Poland
- Academy of Fine Arts – Warsaw (life drawing classes)
Portugal
- Mary St. George: Painter and Printer – Colares (life drawing classes). See also Drawing and Painting Workshop in Portugal (Vimeo)
- Modelo Vivo / The Life Drawing Model – Lisbon (Portugese website for life drawing and modeling)
Romania
- Bucharest National University of Arts – Bucharest (life drawing, painting, and sculpture classes)
Russia
Video clip of life drawing session in Russia:
- Обнаженная натура [contains nudity]
Life drawing instructional video in Russian:
Specific locations
- John Harrison Art – Moscow (life drawing classes)
- Petrovka Art Studio – Moscow (life drawing classes)
- Russian Academy of Art – St Petersburg, Russia and Florence, Italy
- Steve Lester Studios – Moscow (life drawing classes)
Singapore
- Arthaus – Singapore (life drawing classes)
- DigiPen Institute of Technology – Singapore (life drawing classes)
- Lasalle College of the Arts – Singapore (life drawing classes)
- Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts – Singapore (figure drawing classes)
- Organisation of Illustrators Council – Singapore (life drawing classes)
- Singapore Life Drawing Club – Goodman Arts Center – Singapore (life drawing)
Slovenia
- University of Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Univerza v Ljubljani Akademija za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje) – Ljobljana (figure drawing classes)
YouTube video of a figure drawing session on the streets of Ljubljana with a nude model [contains nudity]
South Africa
- Life Drawing Maroochydore – Buderim (life drawing sessions)
- Life Drawing Classes – Capetown (life drawing classes)
- Pretoria Life Drawing Sessions – Pretoria (life drawing)
- South African Society of Artists – Capetown. See site listing artists models with contact information for those who wish to be models
- University of Pretoria – Pretoria (weekly life drawing sessions)
South Korea
- Jankura Artspace – Seoul (provides life drawing and art classes in English) Their website notes they are always looking for new models and provide model training.
Spain
Videos
Two video clips of nude models taking part on a life drawing session outdoors on the streets of Barcelona
- La Plaza del Pi [contains nudity]
- Sin Verguenza [contains nudity]
Specific locations
- Altelier Phryne – Pontevedra (life drawing workshops)
- The Círculo de Bellas Artes – Madrid (figure drawing and painting workshops)
- Crea 13 – Seville (life drawing and sculpture classes)
- Dibujo con modelo vivo – Madrid (life drawing sessions)
- El Enclave Academia de Arte – Madrid (life drawing classes)
- Life Drawing (Barcelona) (Meetup) – Barcelona (life drawing sessions)
- Life Workshops in Rojales (Studio 17) – Rojales, Alicante (life drawing workshop) Site notes they are always looking for more models
- Studio 17 Art Group – Rojales, Alicante (life drawing sessions). They also provide a link for new models.
- Universidad Complutense Bellas Artes – Madrid (life drawing classes)
- Universidad de Castilla – Basin (life drawing classes)
- Universidad de Vigo – Vigo, Galicia (life drawing classes)
- Universidad de Granada – Granada (life drawing classes)
- Universidad De Salamanca – Salamanca (life drawing classes)
- Universidad De Sevilla – Seville (life drawing classes)
- Universidad de Murcia – Murcia (life drawing and sculpture classes)
- Universidad Europea – Madrid (life drawing classes)
- Universitat de Barcelona – Barcelona (life drawing classes)
- Universitat Politècnica de València – València (life drawing and sculpting classes)
- Universitas Miguel Hernández – Altea (life drawing, painting, and sculpture)
General leads
Sri Lanka
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Art Way Gallery – Nugegoda (figure drawing classes)
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Sapumal Foundation – Colombo (life drawing sessions)
- Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts (VAFA) – Salgaha Mawatha, Kotte (figure drawing courses)
Slovakia
- Academy of Fine Arts and Design – Bratislava (figure drawing classes)
Sweden
- The Florence Academy of Art: Sweden – Molndal (life drawing classes)
- The Gotland School of Art – Sverige (life drawing classes)
- The Swedish Academy of Realist Art (SARA) – Stockholm (figure drawing and painting)
- The Swedish Organization of Life Models – Their link page provides includes links to art groups in Sweden that employ life models.

Female Nude (1884) by Thomas Eakins. Public domain.
Switzerland
- Altelier Narasca – Narasca (life drawing classes)
- Basel School of Design – Basel (life drawing classes)
Taiwan
- Zara’s life drawing studio in Taiwan – Yangmei City, Taoyuan County (life drawing sessions)
Thailand
- Learning from life – Article about nude life drawing in Thailand, which is relatively rare but occurs
- The naked truth on nude models – March 22, 2015 Bangkok Post article about a Bangkok artist model
Specific locations
- Attic Studios – Bangkok (life drawing classes)
- Impressions: Emotions in a Box – Bangkok (life drawing classes)
- La Lanta Fine Art – Bangkok (life drawing sessions)
- Mahidol University International College – Phutthamonthon Nakhon Pathom (animation classes with life drawing)
- Silpakorn University – Bangkok (figure and nude painting class)
Trinidad and Tobago
- Art Society of Trinidad and Tobago – Port of Spain (life drawing sessions)
- Croquis Model – Port of Spain (facebook page for nude life model)
Turkey
- Cibali Arthouse – Istanbul (weekly life drawing classes)
Ukraine
- Lviv National Academy of Art – Lviv (life drawing classes)
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National Technical University of Ukraine – Kyiv (life drawing classes)
United Arab Emirates
- American University of Sharjah – Sharjah (life drawing)
United Kingdom
See page listing life drawing sessions in the United Kingdom
United States
See page listing life drawing dessions in the United States
Venezuela
- Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela – Caracas (life drawing classes)
Virgin Islands
University of the Virgin Islands – Saint Thomas (life drawing classes)

Hercules Fighting with the Nemean Lion (1634) by Francisco de Zurbaran. Public domain.
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