Artist
PENG KE
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Peng Ke was born in Changsha, Hunan in 1992, and grew up in Shenzhen. Graduated with a BA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design in 2015, she now lives and works between Shanghai and Los Angeles. Searching for a sense of order in public space and urban infrastructure, her lens impersonates a flâneur, documenting the confounding and interconnecting contingency. Growing up in Shenzhen during the initial stage of the reform and opening-up, she focuses on urban experience and image production as the core of her practice. Represented by artificial lights, public installations, and concrete architectures, artificial landscapes invading the real-world scenes are constantly reconstructed, projecting a signifier that overlays on both the body and perception of modern city dwellers. 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. While filtering sugar-coated, dreamlike color to daily surroundings, Peng’s images hint the numbing effects of plastic products camouflaged in their animated and cheerful appearance, symbolizing the economy of manufacturing activities and the homogeneous visage of everyday life.
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, Lianzhou, 2018; I’ve seen many people although they’ve never seen me, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2018; and The Secured, Salt Projects, Beijing, 2018. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Guangzhou Airport Biennial, Guangzhou; Gallery Weekend Beijing, Beijing; Format Festival, Derby; Beijing Photo Biennial, Beijing. Peng was also awarded the Abigail Cohen Fellowship by the Magnum Foundation, Fondazione EMGdotART Prize, Hahnemühle New Talent Photography Award; and was 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 2020 Let This Moment Be Transformative, OCAT Shenzhen, CN 2019 Guangzhou Airport Biennial: Extreme Mix, 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 |