Artist

PENG KE
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Peng Ke, born in 1992 in Changsha, China, now lives and works between Shanghai and Los Angeles. She graduated with a BA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design in 2015. Operating as an empathy mechanism, Peng's visual language introduces the viewers to the symbiotic system within the public sphere, in which the relationship between subject and object intermingle; empathy reveals the hidden intimacy and reverberated alienation that coexists in the private space, extending the possibilities of reinterpreting urban aesthetics between personal experience and collective memory amidst rapid urban transitions. Recent solo exhibitions include: Grand City and Serendipitous Trésor, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2021; Agoramaniac, Jimei x Arles International Photography Festival, Xiamen, 2019; Leaving Speed, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, 2018; I’ve seen many people although they’ve never seen me, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2018; and The Secured, Salt Projects, Beijing, 2018. Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Guangzhou Airport Biennial; Gallery Weekend Beijing; Format Festival, Derby; and Beijing Photo Biennial. Peng was awarded the Abigail Cohen Fellowship by the Magnum Foundation, Fondazione EMGdotART Prize, Hahnemühle New Talent Photography Award; and nominated for the Huayu Youth Award, Foam Paul Huf Award, and Jimei x Arles Discovery Award.

Peng Ke, Huawei Project 14, 2020
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Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2021    Grand City and Serendipitous Trésor, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN
2019    Agoramaniac, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, CN
2018    Peng Ke: Leaving Speed, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, Lianzhou, CN
2018    I’ve seen many people although they’ve never seen me, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN
2018    The Secured, Salt Projects, Beijing, CN
2017    Underneath the Tree Where I Buried All My Childhood Pets, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Gallery 50, Toronto, CA
2015    Leaky Logic and a Fugitive Fish, w/ Justine Chang, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI, US


Group Exhibitions

2023    structural stowaway, basis e.v., Frankfurt, DE
2023    X Museum Triennial 2023: Home Is Where the Haunt Is, X Museum, Beijing, CN
2023    To Your Eternity, curated by Xin Wang, Today Art Museum, Beijing, CN
2022    Being Theoria, 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, CN
2022    Witches Own Without (W.O.W.), Current Plans, Hong Kong, CN
2022    Double Vision, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, CN
2022    A Spring of Magical Thinking, Hunsand Space, Beijing, CN
2020    Let This Moment Be Transformative, OCAT Shenzhen, CN
2019    Extreme Mix, Guangzhou Airport Biennial, Guangzhou, CN
2018    Condition, Huayu Youth Award Finalist Exhibition, Huayu Art Center, Sanya, CN
2018    Curtain, The 3rd Beijing International Photography Biennale, Beizhen, CN
2018    ORGAN VIDA 18 Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, HR
2018    How They Ran, Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA, US
2018    LOVE 2018: Purple Hearts, LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY, US
2018    Myth, Memory and Migration: Stories from the Asian Diaspora, NARS Foundation, New York, NY, US
2017    2017 Aperture Summer Open, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, US
2017    close, but not touching, Biggercode Gallery, New York, NY, US
2016    Evening Projection, OFF Circuit, Cortona On The Move 2016, Cortona, IT
2016    Evening Projection, Photonic Moments, Ljubljana, SI
2016    Context 2016, Filter Photo, Chicago, IL, US
2016    Open Juried Exhibition, Juror’s Choice Award, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT, US
2015    E7900, Aviary Gallery, Boston, MA, US
2015    Out of the Frame, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA, US
2015    Fotofilmic Traveling Exhibition, dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, US
2014    Pale Firework, Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, RI, US
2014    RISD Photography Triennial, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI, US
2014    Fotofilmic Traveling Exhibition, Back Gallery Project, Vancouver, BC, CA
2014    Breaking Boundaries V, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, CN
2014    Meet the Family, CIT/Fletcher Building 407, Providence, RI, US
2014    Center Forward 2014, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, US
2014    THE FENCE at Photoville, Rose F. Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA, US
2014    Flash Forward Festival, Undergraduate Photography Now, 530 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA, US
2014    50/50 artist/context, Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, RI, US
2014    The Beloved Community, RISD Exposé Gallery, Providence, RI, US

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