when you are forging, don't forget to close your eyes.
OU Jiun-You was born in Taipei, Taiwan, currently lives and works in Germany/Taiwan.
With a social science degree in international relations from National Taiwan University (TW), she started her artistic practices mostly by self-taught in Taiwan since 2008. After working and teaching in the field of metalsmithing for some years, the interests in stone led her to start her MFA study in Hochschule Trier, Idar-Oberstein campus (DE) in 2015, and later on Erasmus exchange in the department of jewellery and blacksmithing, Estonian Academy of Arts (EE) from 2016 to 2017. Since 2018, she has been working as a freelance artist and lecturer in Germany/Taiwan.
Her methodologies and working methods could be unfolded with the researches of both anthropology and psychology: from a structural perspective to a symbolic perspective; from the research of bricolage to liminality. As a bricoleur and an incompetent storyteller, she realizes her thoughts with an intention toward Gesamtkunstwerk through various media into (wearable) objects, sculptures, installations, and site-specific projects.
Her works have been awarded and selected in significant events: European Prize for Applied Arts (BE), Albert Haueisen Art Prize (DE), Friedrich Becker Prize (DE), Schmuck (DE), TALENTE Prize (DE), KORU 5: The international contemporary jewellery triennial (FI), Cheongju International Craft Biennale (KR), and New Traditional Jewelry (NL); her works have also been presented widely in Europe and Asia: Grassi Museum (DE), Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design (EE), Imatra Art Museum (FI), The Museum of Arts & Craft ITAMI (JP), Museum Arnhem (NL) and so on.
歐軍佑生於台北，台灣，現工作及居住於德國與台灣。
畢業於台灣大學政治學系國際關係組的歐軍佑，主要以自學的方式從2008年開始其創作實踐。在工作與教學數年後，對於寶玉石的興趣促使她於2015前往世界寶石中心德國伊達爾-奧伯施泰因，攻讀寶石專業美術碩士學位，並在2016至2017年間於東歐著名的愛沙尼亞藝術學院進行鍛鐵工藝的學習。在2018年以平均1.0的最優異成績畢業後，曾擔任研究生作品指導者，於德國與台灣延續她的創作工作至今。
她常以人類學及心理學做為其主要的方法論，那指向了：從結構的觀點到象徵的觀點，以及從修補術到閾限的研究。做為一個廣泛意義上的修補匠以及不太稱職的說書人，她透過多樣的媒材：（可穿戴）物件、雕塑、裝置以及現地計畫等，秉持著建構出整體藝術的意圖來實踐其思考。
歐軍佑在2014年成為首位在德國慕尼黑拿下工藝界重要榮耀TALENTE Prize的台灣人，並從2012年開始至今，多次入選國際重要獎項及雙（參）年展：德國杜塞道夫Friedrich Becker 獎(2020)、德國Albert Haueisen藝術獎(2019)、德國慕尼黑Schmuck特別展(2019)、韓國清州國際工藝雙年展/獎(2019)、比利時蒙斯歐洲應用藝術參年展/獎(2018)、芬蘭KORU首飾參年展(2015)、荷蘭新傳統首飾獎(2014/2010)，以及愛沙尼亞應用藝術參年展/獎(2012)等。