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Arthur Ou

Professor of Photography

Email
oua@newschool.edu

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Arthur Ou

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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 also 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. From 2019-2020 Ou was a faculty fellow in the Graduate Institute of Design, Ethnography, and Social Thought (GIDEST). He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2024. Ou is a 2025-2026 arts fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.


Degrees Held

M.F.A., Yale University School of Art

B.F.A., Parsons School of Design 


Recent Publications

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

The Photograph as Contemporary Art, by Charlotte Cotton, Thames and Hudson, 2020

The World Is All That Is the Case, Arthur Ou artist book, Roma Publications, 2019

Photography Is Magic, by Charlotte Cotton, Aperture, 2015

The Beauty of a Social Problem: Photography, Autonomy, Economy, by Walter Benn Michaels, published by University of Chicago Press, 2015


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Current Courses


Future Courses

  • Independent Studio 2
    PGPH 5006 - Spring 2027
  • Making + Meaning: Theory
    PLHT 3020 - Spring 2027

Past Courses

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