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). His work was included in the 2012 Daegu Photography Biennial, the 2013 and 2018 Queens International, 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. He received his MFA from Yale University School and is a professor of photography at Parsons School of Design, a division of the New School. Ou received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2024. He is a 2025-2026 arts fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

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Athina 11851, Greece
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Queens, New York
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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        

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

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

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

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

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)

• The Art Institute of Chicago
• The Philadelphia Museum of Art
• The Queens Museum

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

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