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 internationally. 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 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 of Art and his BFA from Parsons School of Design. Ou is an associate professor of photography at Parsons School of Design, a division of The New School.
A Quality Of Light – to channel Audre Lorde – “has direct bearing” on what the photograph brings forth into the world, and, in turn, on what the artist aspires to contribute to the complex image universe.
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