OGDEN, UTAH.- Ogden Contemporary Arts is presenting two solo exhibitions by artists Lu Wei and Scout Invie, whose work powerfully examines identity, land, and feminine narratives in the West, through distinct yet thematically resonant perspectives. The exhibitions opened May 2 and run through July 13, 2025. As always at OCA, Admission is free.

Entering Into The Serpent by Lu Wei, based in Taipei, Taiwan, explores the darker creative powers of women and mother figures. For the past two years, she has turned her attention to indigenous cultures in the American Southwest and Mexico, focusing on their connection to concepts of land and bridging them to ink painting’s cosmology. She has been inspired by Chicana feminist Gloria Anzaldúa's work "Borderlands / La Frontera," in which the Serpent is a powerful symbol of femininity, the body, the earth, fertility, healing, death, and rebirth.

No Place Like Home by Scout Invie, born in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Scout Invie explores the American West through textile design, performance, and multimedia artworks. Her work traces the region’s evolving identit —its unraveling climate, global entanglements, and mythos. Drawing from her background in one of America’s most affluent communities with extreme wealth disparity, Invie confronts the West as both dream and mirage.

Scout Invie is an artist born in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, currently based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She explores the American West through textile and fashion design, performance, and multimedia artworks. Her work traces the region’s evolving identit —its unraveling climate, global entanglements, and mythos. Drawing from her background in one of America’s most affluent communities with extreme wealth disparity, Invie confronts the West as both a dream and a mirage. She received the Ogden Contemporary Arts Choice Award at the 2024 Utah Statewide Annual Exhibition and is a recipient of the 2023 Alfred Lambourne Visual Arts Prize and the 2022 Salt Lake City Arts Council Artist Career Empowerment grant. She received a BA in English literary analysis from Westminster University and her work has been included in exhibitions at Ogden Contemporary Arts (UT), the 801 Salon (UT), Material Contemporary (UT), and the Gala (July 2025, UT). She is also a writer and was the English editor for both print volumes of Aquí y Allá, published in 2024 by PROArtes México.

Lu Wei is a visual artist and curator based in Taipei, Taiwan. She received a master’s degree in Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA). Working primarily in Chinese ink painting, her work focuses on gender, mythology, and nature. Re envisioning images of mythological and classical religious figures, Wei’s work subverts established depictions of the female body. She does this by responding to Chinese art history and by incorporating her life experiences as a mother and artist. In addition to ink paintings, her work includes artist books and paper-cutting installations. In addition to her work, she began to participate in curatorial and international exchange programs actively. In her international curatorial work, she focuses on the issues of land and identity mobility and the representations of artistic practice in the contemporary cross-cultural context.

In 2023, Lu Wei was artist-in-residence at Taipei Artist Village, a collaborative multi year program with Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, sponsored by the Asia Pacific Exchange Program and based at Grey Projects in Singapore. Lu Wei was recently awarded a grant from the Taiwanese Ministry of Culture, which includes a three month artist residency at 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles, CA. She is also an independent curator with national and international exhibitions, including shows at Taitung Art Museum (Taitung, Taiwan, 2023) for which she was nominated for the 22nd Taishin Art Award, MOCA Taipei (Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei) for which she received the “curator’s incubator program @museums” grant from the National Culture and Arts Foundation, and at Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C- Lab) for this year’s Taiwan Annual.