Arthur OU
25-31 30th Road, 4D
Astoria, NY, 11102
(323) 600-7502
ozujiro@gmail.com
Education
M.F.A. 2000 Yale University
B.F.A. 1997 Parsons School of Design
1992- Civil Engineering, University of California, Irvine
1995
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Half-Light, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 NADA (New Art Dealer Alliance) Art Fair, with Hudson Franklin, Miami Beach, FL
2007 To Preserve, To Elevate, To Cancel, Hudson Franklin, New York, NY
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 (catalogue)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Resort, A Station for Display, Alice Konitz and Arthur Ou, LA><ART, Los Angeles, California (Two-person show)
Ooga Booga Reading Room, The Swiss Institute, New York
After Color, Bose Pacia, New York, NY (catalogue)
The Noble Savage and the Little Tramp, Mt. Tremper Arts, Catskills, NY, Curator, Hannah Whitaker
(Super)Natural, New York Photo Festival, New York, NY
2008 The World Is All That Is The Case, Hudson Franklin, New York, NY
When It’s A Photograph, Bolsky Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California, Curator: Soo Kim (catalogue)
I Am A Killer, Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Chinaman’s Chance, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, Curator: Chip Tom
2007 I Am Eyebeam, Gallery 400, University of Chicago, Chicago, Curators: Lorelei Stewart and Melanie Schiff
The 3rd Songzhuang Art Festival, Songzhuang Beijing, China
Cal Asia, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, California, Curator: Chip Tom
Overbite/Underbite, Ritter/Zamet, London, United Kingdom, Curators: Darren Bader and Mirabelle Marden
New Ghost Entertainment Entitled, Städtische Galerie Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany, Curator: Katrin Pesch (catalogue)
2006 Cataract, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
Psychogeographies, Glendale Community College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA, Curator: Alex Slade
Dirty Yoga, The 5th Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Curators: Dan
Cameron and Jun-Jieh Wang (catalogue)
Smoking Mirrors, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
New Ghost Entertainment Entitled, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, Curator: Katrin Pesch
Chaos or Control, UCLA Perloff Hall, Department of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA Curator: James Welling
High Desert Test Site 5, Art Swap Meet, Joshua Tree, CA
Love After the Cold War in an Open House of a (Re) Constructed Babylon by a Popular Mechanic, Mak Center for Art and Architecture at the Mackey Apartments, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Happenstance, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY, Curator: Lauri Firstenberg
Groupshowboard, Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, Austria
Imaginary Is Potential II, MUU, Helsinki, Finland, Curator: Henrikke Nielsen
Imaginary Is Potential II, Nicolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark
2004 High Desert Test Site #4, Art Swap Meet, 29 Palms, CA
Itineraries, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA, Curator: Chris Balaschak
Imaginary Is Potential, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany
3 Fireplaces and 2 Bathtubs, MAK Center at the Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Scope Art Fair, Miami, FL.
Into The Abyss, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY, Curator: Adam Putnam
2002 The Show That Will Show That a Show Is Not Only a Show, The Project, Los Angeles, CA, Curator: Jens Hoffman (catalogue)
Reconfigure, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, Curator: Adam Henry
2001 Mink Jazz, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Curator: Bruce Hainly
2000 Graduate Photography, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT (catalogue)
Academic Positions & Appointments
2008-Present Assistant Professor, School of Art, Media, and Technology, Parsons the New School for Design, New York
2005-07 Lecturer, Basic Color Photography, UCLA Department of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2006-07 Lecturer, Digital Photography Studio, USC Department of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Lecturer, Lower Division Photography, UCSB Department of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2003-06 Lecturer, Photo I: Intermediate, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California
2003-05 Lecturer, The Digital Photograph, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California
2003-06 Lecturer, Art and Technology Practices, Otis College of Art and Design, Los
Angeles, California
2003-05 Lecturer, Photo I, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
2003-06 Instructor, Beginning and Intermediate Photography, UCLA Extension
Artist Talks and Lectures
2010 Artist talk, Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series, California Institute Of the Arts, Valencia, California
2009 Artist talk, Handtmann Photography Lecture Series, USC, Los Angeles, California
2008 Artist talk, University of California at Riverside
2007 Is Photography Art? a panel discussion with Charlotte Cotton, Michael Queenland, and Mark Wyse, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2006 Chaos or Control, a panel discussion with James Welling, George Baker, Walead Beshty, Shannon Ebner and Eve Fowler, UCLA Department of Arechitecture
Photography and Objecthood, a panel discussion with Liz Deschenes, Shannon Ebner, Kelly Walker, and James Welling, moderated by Lia Gangitano, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Artist Residency
1997 FABRICA, Benetton Research and Development Center, Treviso, Italy
Awards and Grants
2010 Department of Cultural Affairs Grant, Taipei City Government
2009 Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant
2009 Taipei Cultural Center, New York Production Grant
2008 National Culture and Arts Foundation Grant, Taiwan
2007 National Culture and Arts Foundation Grant, Taiwan
2005 National Culture and Arts Foundation Grant, Taiwan
2004 Creative Capital Professional Development Grant
2000 John Ferguson Weir Memorial Award, Yale University
Bibliography
Kotz, Liz, “The Medium and the Messages”, Artforum, October, 2009
Aletti, Vince, “After Color”, New Yorker Magazine, July 27th, 2009
Smith, Roberta, “Chelsea: Art Chockablock With Encyclopedic Range”, New York Times, November 13th, 2008
Cotton, Charlotte, “Arthur Ou”, Art on Paper, March/April, 2008
Grabner, Michelle, “Picks: I Am Eyebeam”, Artforum.com
<http://artforum.com/picks/section=us#picks18888>
Vine, Richrd, “Report from Taipei: The Bluerennial”, Art in America, June/July 2007
Coxhead, Gabriel, “Overbite/Underbite, Ritter/Zamet”, Time Out London, June, 2007
Brooks, Amra, “Must See Art, Smoking Mirrors, China Art Objects Galleries”, LA Weekly, August, 2006
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review, Happenstance”, New York Times, December 30, 2005
Kendzulak, Susan. “East and West? And What’s the Difference?” Taipei Times, December 8, 2005
Jelcic, Ivona. “Mein Haus, Mein Auto, Mein Show”, Die Neue, September 8, 2005
Myers, Holly. “Itineraries.” Los Angeles Times, August 20, 2004
Holte, Michael Ned. “Critics’ Picks: Itineraries.” Artforum.com <http://www.artforum.com/picks/place=Los%20Angeles#picks7263>
Cantor, Karen. “Universal Objects: A Conversation with Artists Arthur Ou and Adam Henry.” Petite Mort, No.1 2003
<http://www.petitemort.org/issue01/09.shtml>
Andrew Webb, “Group art ‘Reconfigured’,” Daily Lobo, Monday, April 15, 2002
Richard Benson, “Graduate Photography at Yale”, introduction to catalogue, 2000
Publications
“North Drive Press #5”, published by North Drive Press, New York, New York
“The Photograph As Contemporary Art, 2nd Edition”, author: Charlotte Cotton, published by Thames and Hudson, September 2009
“After Color”, published by Bose Pacia, New York, July 2009
“Words Without Pictures”, published by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 2009
“When It’s A Photograph”, published by Otis College of Art and Design, October, 2008
“Minicipal de Fútbol”, published by Christopher Keller Editions and Textfield, 2008
“Material No. 1”, published by Material Press, Spring 2008
“Blind Spot No. 37”, published by Blind Spot, New York, March 2008
“Dirty Yoga – The 5th Taipei Biennial”, published by Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006
“New Ghost Entertainment-Entitled”, published by Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin, Germany 2006
“Groupshowboard”, published by Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, Austria 2006
“Etc. Projects”, published by Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY 2006
“Into The Abyss”, published by Adam Putnum, New York, NY, 2003
“A Show That Will Show That A Show Is Not Only A Show”, published by Edition Valerio, Paris / Berlin & The Project, New York / Los Angeles, 2002
Published Essays & Articles
“500 Words: James Welling”, Artforum.com, January 2010 <http://artforum.com/words/id=24743>
“Lay Flat 02: Meta”, published by Shane Lavalet, Fall 2009
“500 Words: Tehching Hsieh”, Artforum.com, March, 2009 <http://artforum.com/words/id=21889>
“The Bootlegger’s Imperative: Harrell Fletcher’s The American War at LAXART”, Afterall Magazine website, April 2007. <http://www.afterall.org/online/harrell.fletcher.at.laxart>
“John Russell Presents: Frozen Tears 3: The Trinity”, published by Article Press, London, 2007
“Shannon Ebner and Arthur Ou in Conversation”, North Drive Press #3, New York, NY 2006
“John Russell Presents: Frozen Tears II, The Sequel”, published by Article Press, London, 2004
