How to become a Visual Artist

Official title: Visual Artists

Creates visual artworks through sculpture, painting, comics, printmaking and other techniques.

Main tasks

• Conceive and create paintings, drawings and sculptures
• Choose artistic media, methods and materials; restore damaged, dirty and faded paintings and other artworks
• Create figurative or abstract pictures using pencil, ink, chalk, oil paint, watercolour and other techniques
• Paint, carve or etch works using metal, wood and other materials

Ways in

• University department: Creative Arts & Design degrees, Offered by 102 universities in Taiwan
• University department: Communications & Media degrees, Offered by 68 universities in Taiwan

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Demand for Legal, social and cultural jobs is projected at about 190,000 in 2024 and about 216,000 in 2030. (+13.7%)
• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Related jobs

• Dancers and Choreographers
• Musicians, Singers and Composers
• Film, Stage and Related Directors and Producers
• Actors
• Announcers On Radio, Television and Other Media
• Other Creative and Performing Artists

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Questions people ask

How do I become a Visual Artist?

Ways in include: Creative Arts & Design degrees; Communications & Media degrees.

Is a Visual Artist a growing career in Taiwan?

Demand for this job family is projected to change 13.7% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).

Will AI change the work of a Visual Artist?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026