ARTISTS
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Arthur Ou
Known for：〈Day of times〉 〈Primer〉
(b.1974) Arthur Ou is a Taiwanese-American artist and educator based in Queens, New York. He has held solo exhibitions at venues including UP Gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan, (2024), 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, 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 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.
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Arthur Ou’s solo exhibition, UP Gallery, Hsinchu, TW
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
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
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
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 essayby Walter Benn Michaels
Collections
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Queens Museum
