​​OU Jiun-You (歐軍佑) is a Taiwanese artist currently living and working in Vienna (AT) and Taipei (TW).

After graduating from National Taiwan University (TW) with a BA in Political Science-International Relations, Ou began her largely self-taught exploration of raw material-based practices in 2008. While working and teaching in the field of metalsmithing for a few years, her interest in stone led her to move to Germany and begin studying at the Hochschule Trier, Campus Idar-Oberstein (DE) in 2015, and later through the Erasmus exchange at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EE) from 2016 to 2017. Ou received her MFA in 2018, and then moved to Karlsruhe (DE) and now Vienna (AT) to continue her interdisciplinary practice. 

Her current research focuses lie at the intersection of art, science, and philosophy. Ou is particularly interested in how devious and seemingly problematic working methods can serendipitously lead to results that represent one's odyssey. Stone and raw materials resonate with oneself and one's position, composing some weighty objects, floating sounds and an atlas. 

Ou has been awarded Grassipreis der Carl und Anneliese Goerdeler-Stiftung 2023 (DE), Justus Brinckmann Förderpreis 2022 (DE), Staatspreis für das Kunsthandwerk Rheinland-Pfalz 2022 (DE), TALENTE Prize 2014 (DE), among others. She is also the recipient of the Scholarship from the Ministry of Education (TW), Deutschlandstipendium (DE), Ariadnestipendium (DE), Residency Grants of the Ministry of Culture (TW), Annual Regular Grants from the National Foundation for Culture and Art (TW), etc. Her works are in the public collections of Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst (DE), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (DE), Taiwan Fine Arts Foundation (TW), and in private collections mainly in Germany and Taiwan.

​*complete CV available upon request​