Lu Wei — My Sole Desires

b. 1994, in Taiwan

Currently living and working in Taipei, Taiwan

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 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. This year, the National Taiwanese Art Bank acquired several of Lu Wei’s paintings as part of their permanent collection. Wei has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including SOKA Art (Tainan, Taiwan, 2021), Mezzo Art (Tainan, Taiwan, 2021), Taipei Artist Village (Taipei, Taiwan, 2020), and AKI Gallery (Taipei, Taiwan, 2020). She is also a recognized and celebrated curator with several 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.

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