Arthur Ou is a multimedia artist working in photography, sculpture, and installation. He graduated in 2000 with a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University, where he was the recipient of the John Ferguson Weir Memorial Award. Since then, his art—which interrogates themes of historiography, assimilation, and documentation—has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and publications. His work was recently included in the group exhibitions Phantoms in the Dirt (2014) at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, and Queens International 2013 at Queens Museum, New York, and he had a solo exhibition at Brennan & Griffin, New York, also in 2013. Additionally, Ou’s writing has been featured in several publications including Aperture, Artforum, and X-TRA. Based in New York City, Ou is the director of BFA Photography at Parsons the New School for Design, where he also serves as Assistant Professor of Photography.
