OSCAR YI HOU
Born 1998, Liverpool, United Kingdom Lives and works in New York City

EDUCATION
2021 BA Visual Arts, magna cum laude, Columbia University, New York, NY
2020 École des arts de la Sorbonne (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne), Paris, France

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 A sky-licker relation, James Fuentes, New York, NY A dozen poem-pictures, James Fuentes Online,
New York, NY
Crane Seeking Comforts, T293 Gallery, Rome,
Open Exhibition, Editions, Liverpool, UK CAPTURED MOMENTS, Road Studios, Liverpool,
UK (two-person exhibition) Home, ARTShub47, Liverpool, UK
A-Level Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, UK (online)

SELECTED PUBLIC DISPLAYS
Already Home: AAPI Artists on Belonging, “Moments in Culture by Outfront,” via Artsy, Digital displays in national transit systems, USA
Queer the City, Homotopia Festival, Billboard, Liverpool, UK

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Yinka Elujoba, “Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now,” The New York Times, September 13
“Oscar yi Hou, A sky-licker relation,” TheGuide.art, September, https://theguide.art/event/oscar-yi- hou-a-sky-licker-relation-james-fuentes/
“Interview with Oscar yi Hou,” Editorial Magazine, August, http://the-editorialmagazine.com/oscar-yi- hou-kate-wong/
“Oscar yi Hou and Louis Fratino are at the vanguard of queer figurative painting,” conversation between Oscar yi Hou and Louis Fratino, with Morgan Becker, Document Journal, August, https://www.documentjournal.com/ 2021/08/oscar-yi-hou-and-louis-fratino-are-at-the- vanguard-of-queer-figurative-painting/
“16 Rising Artists of the Asian Diaspora in the United States,” Artsy, www.artsy.net/article/artsy- editorial-16-rising-artists-asian-diaspora
“Meet the Asian art world’s dynamic new duo,” FT Weekend, May
“An Introduction to Art by Russell Tovey,” BBC’s The One Show, May (television)
2021 Italy 2020

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
The Loneliest Sport, Spazio Amanita, Florence, Italy (curated by Jacob Hyman)
Tidal Motion, Joe Sheftel, Provincetown, MA Shining In The Low Tide, Unclebrother, Hancock, NY
Breakfast Under The Tree, curated by Russell Tovey, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, UK
Go Figure!?, Sprüth Magers Online
QUEER OUT T/HERE, Tong Art Advisory, New York, NY
Friend Zone, curated by Vaughn Spann, Half Gallery, New York, NY
Pressing, Division of Labour, Salford, UK (online)
2020
myselves, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Warmth and Promise, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
Open Air, Tong Art Advisory, East Hampton, NY
Queer the City, Homotopia Festival, Liverpool, UK
2019
Chinosity Experience, Asia Society, New York, NY
2016
Liverpool Art Fair, The Gallery, Liverpool, UK

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021
“Interview: Oscar Yi Hou, Crane Seeking Comfort – T293,” Exibart, www.exibart.com/mostre/oscar-yi- hou-crane-seeking-comfort-t293/
“Oscar yi Hou: Crane Seeking Comforts,” CURA. Magazine, curamagazine.com/digital/oscar-yi- hou/
“Oscar yi Hou – Crane Seeking Comforts,” Artribune, www.artribune.com/mostre-evento- arte/oscar-yi-hou-crane-seeking-comforts/
“L’artiste s’expose à la galerie T293 au sein du projet « Also on View »,” Luxe Magazine, www.luxe.net/oscar-yi-hou-crane-seeking- comforts- lartiste-sexpose-a-la-galerie-t293-au- sein-du-projet-also-on-view/
2020
“ENGAGE IN DIALOGUE WITH THE DILIGENTLY LAYERED PAINTINGS OF OSCAR YI HOU,“ Art of Choice, www.artofchoice.co/engage-in-dialogue- with-the-diligently-layered-paintings-of-oscar-yi- hou/
2019
“EXPLORING SELFHOOD THROUGH MEDIUM AT KOHN GALLERY, LA,” Art of
Choice, www.artofchoice.co/exploring-selfhood- through-medium-in-kohn-gallery-la/
2018
Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism, June 2017 "ARTIST OF THE WEEK: OSCAR YI HOU,” Milk.xyz,
June
"Rising Creatives,” ROOT-ed Zine, March
“VICELAND: Underrepresented,” VICELAND (television)
“INTERVIEW XVI: OSCAR HOU,” Ratrock Magazine, October (print, web)
2016
“Art Hoe Collective Meets Lorna Simpson,” Tate Gallery, July (online video)
“oscar yi hou,” Recens Paper, ISSUE #4: INVENT, August
“OSCAR HOU,” Issue 2, Grounders Magazine, August
“Oscar yi Hou,” Average Art Magazine, September

PUBLISHED WRITING
2019
In Which Humanness Rests,” Journal of Art Criticism, Spring

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021
QUEER OUT T/HERE, Tong Art Advisory, New York, NY

LECTURES
2021
Invited Speaker, Seminar: “The Effective Artist,” New York Film Academy

RESIDENCIES
2021
Silver Arts Project Studio Residency, New York, NY

HONORS
2019
Robert Gamblin Painting Award, Columbia University