Arthur Ou is a Taiwanese-American artist and educator based in Queens, New York. He has held solo exhibitions at venues including Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece (2019), Kathryn Brennan Gallery, New York (2017, 2015, 2013), IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (2010, 2005), and Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2000). Ou’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the Grazer Kunstverein, Austria, LAXART, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, the Presentation House, Vancouver, and the Queens Museum. His work was included in the 2012 Daegu Photography Biennial and the 2006 and 2023 Taipei Biennial. His work has been written about in Artforum, Art in America, the New York Times, and the New Yorker, and has appeared in Aperture, Blind Spot, Camera Austria, and The Photograph as Contemporary Art. He has written critical texts in Aperture, Art in America, Foam, and Osmos. Ou’s publications include The World Is All That Is the Case, an artist book published by Roma Publications in association with designer Julie Peeters. He received his MFA from Yale University School and is an associate professor of photography at Parsons School of Design, a division of the New School. Ou is a 2024 Guggenheim fellow in photography.


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Eleni Koroneou

Dimofontos 30, Thorikion 7
Athina 11851, Greece
koroneougallery.com

Arthur Ou 歐宗翰

Queens, New York
ozujiro@gmail.com


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019
The World Is All, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece

2017
A Day of Times, Brennan and Griffin, New York, New York

2015
Arthur Ou, Brennan and Griffin, New York, New York 

2013
Arthur Ou, Brennan and Griffin, New York, New York

2010
• Half-Light, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2005
• On Every New Thing There Lies Already the Shadow of Annihilation, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2000
• Faces, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan        


Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
Artist Scores, Scenarios, and Instructions, Gstaad Art, Switzerland, curated by Piper Marshall and Kolja Glaeser

2023
Taipei Biennial 2023: Small World, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, curated by Freya Chou, Brian Kuan Wood, and Reem Shadid 
South Willard, Gordon Robichaux, New York, New York
• Richard Benson: The World Is Smarter Than You Are, Sarasota Museum of Art, Florida, curated by Peter Barberie

2021
Heirlooms, Loong Mah, New York, New York
Object Lesson, Institute of Contemporary Image, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2020
E’Wao Kagoshima/Arthur Ou, Michael Benevento Gallery, Los Angeles, California (Two-person show)
DYKWTCA (Do You Know Where the Children Are?), The Corner at Whitman Walker Community Health Center, Washington D.C.

2018
The Queens International, Queens Museum, Queens, New York
Form and Class, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Walter Benn Michaels

2017
99 Cents, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan

2016
Astoria, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria, curated by Trisha Donnelly

2015
Images that Speak, Presentation House, Vancouver, Canada, curated by Christopher Eamon
• Day Moon, Halsey MacKay Gallery, East Hampton, New York
• Same But Different, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece

2014
Phantoms in the Dirt, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois, curated by Karsten Lund
Topophilia, Bank Gallery, Shanghai, China
The Material Image, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, curated by Deborah Singer
• Christina Michalis, Arthur Ou, Alexandros Tzannis, Eleni Koneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
• Me and Benjamin, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France

2013
Queens International 2013, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, New York
• Repertory, One Torino, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy, curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari
• My Echo, My Shadow, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Permutation, 03.3: Reproduction, P !, New York, New York


Selected Bibliography

2023
• Mimi Wong, Arthur Ou: Viewfinder, Aperture 251, Being & Becoming: Asians in America

2022
Object Lesson, On the Influence of Richard Benson, Aperture

2021
• Jason Fulford, Photo No-Nos, Aperture
• Hirishikesh Hirway, Interview, Platform

2020
• Charlotte Cotton, The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Thames and Hudson
• Jill Enfield, Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes, Routledge

2019
• Yao Jui-Chung and Shauba Chang, Photo-Logues II, Garden City

2017
• Zack Hatfield, Critic’s Pick: A Day of Times, Artforum.com
• Julie Peeters, Bill, Issue 1, Roma Publications

2015
• Walter Benn Michaels, The Beauty of a Social Problem: Photography, Autonomy, Economy, University of Chicago Press
• Martha Schwendener, Review: Arthur Ou, The New York Times
• Charlotte Cotton, New Color: Restoration of Black and White Photography, IMA Magazine, vol. 14
• Charlotte Cotton, The Solution is the New Problem, C Photo, vol. 10
• Charlotte Cotton, Photography is Magic, Aperture
• David Diao, Artist’s Artist, The Best of 2015, Artforum
• Annette Kelm, editor, Camera Austria, vol. 131
• Alex Jovanovich, Critic’s Pick: Arthur Ou, Artforum.com, May 2015
• Art in America Editors, The Lookout: Arthur Ou, Art in America

2014
• Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern, The Photographer’s Playbook, Aperture
Phantoms in the Dirt, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois

2013
• Richard Vine, Getting Over, Chinese Style, Art in America
• Richard James Havis, New York Art Show Tackles What It Means to be Chinese in the Modern Age, South China Morning Post
• Holland Cotter, Art Review: A Local Place for a Global Neighborhood, New York Times
• Diana Kamin, Arthur Ou, Art in American
• Roberta Smith, Ten Years, New York Times
• Jonathan, T.D. Neil, Permutation, 03.3: Reproduction, Art Review
• Claire Barliant, Goings On, New Yorker


Selected Essays & Articles

2023
Hua Hsu, in conversation with Arthur Ou, November Magazine

2021
Heirlooms, philoSOPHIA, vol. 11, co-written with Lauren O’Neill-Butler

2016
Pictures in an Inkjet Era: A Conversation between Phil Chang and Arthur Ou, Objektiv no. 13

2014
Christopher Williams, MoMA, Art in America, October issue
Robert Heinecken, MoMA, Art in America, May issue

2013
Photo:edu. Towards A New Curriculum, Aperture Magazine, Issue 210
500 Words: Thomas Ruff, Artforum.com
500 Words: Noritoshi Hirakawa, Artforum.com

2012
500 Words: Gabriel Orozco, Artforum.com
The Omnipresent Sea: Allan Sekula and Noël Burch’s The Forgotten Space, Aperture Magazine, Issue 208
500 Words: Zoe Leonard, Artforum.com
500 Words: Paul Graham, Artforum.com

2011
Total Vision: Camera Culture Research Group at The M.I.T. Media Lab, Foam Magazine, Issue 29
Christopher Williams, X-Tra, Fall 2011, vol. 14
Trisha Donnelly: The Orbiter, Aperture Magazine, Issue 203
Karthik Pandian, Bidoun #24
500 Words: Robert Adams, Artforum.com
500 Words: Joseph Kosuth, Artforum.com
500 Words: Stan Douglas, Artforum.com
500 Words: Michael Lin, Artforum.com

2010
500 Words: Manray Hsu and Jun Yang, Artforum.com
500 Words: James Welling, Artforum.com

2009
500 Words: Tehching Hsieh, Artforum.com

2007
The Bootlegger’s Imperative: Harrell Fletcher’s The American War at LAXART, Afterall
John Russell Presents: Frozen Tears 3: The Trinity, Article Press, London

2006
Shannon Ebner and Arthur Ou in Conversation, North Drive Press #3
John Russell Presents: Frozen Tears II, The Sequel, Article Press, London


Publications

2019         
• Arthur Ou, The World Is All That Is the Case, Roma Publications, with essay by Walter Benn Michaels


Selected Curatorial Projects

2014–2015         
The Invisible Photograph, The Hillman Photography Initiative, Carnegie Museum of Art (Creative Director)

2013              
Cross-Strait Relations, Sheila Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, (Curator)


Collections

• The Art Institute of Chicago
• The Queens Museum


Colophon

Design by Jonathan Maghen
Translation Grant Hao-Wei Lin
Extra Mono by Berton Hasebe