qi peng

United States
Salt Lake City, UT
born 1976 USA
www.qipeng.net
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biography

qi peng was born in Queens, New York in 1976 and received his masters degree at Yale University. He is a conceptual artist who executes “interviews” as a form of collaborative portraits with various art professionals and also uses primary/secondary documents to examine the contemporary art market. Occasionally he does paintings, photographs, and works on paper. The artist’s studio is located near downtown Salt Lake City and he works sometimes in New York City for street art or fine art special projects. He has been exhibited in various places including the Projects Gallery, The Lab at Belmar, modern8 Gallery, James Cohan Gallery/NURTUREart, Metro Pictures, Art Raw Gallery, and Anna Kustera. He will be featured in the Winter 2009 issue of Studio Visit Magazine published by The Open Studios Press.

“Are artists, gallerists, etc. slaves to the system of the contemporary art world?” is the question that I choose to focus on. After watching the movies “Frost/Nixon” and “Interview,” I decided to set my sights on clarifying the social and professional relationships with the international art market. I am hoping to deconstruct through these “interviews” the Hegelian dialectic of master/slave that tends to get applied to the gallery director/artist and other art professional relationships. In February 2009, I decided to transform myself into a “fine arts journalist” through examiner.com as a long-term performance artist in order to investigate these myths about the art world.

With the ongoing series of verbal portraits in the form of “interviews,” each multi-panel artwork is a visual and textual representation of the person I am interested in. I am hoping to convey the human face behind the social labels of “gallery owner,” “curator,” “artist,” etc. to demonstrate the uniqueness of the individual. These portraits could have references to each other as artists talk about each other, etc. The richness of the contemporary art world is reflected in my conceptual installations just like the way August Sander attempted to capture his whole milieu of his social world.

solo exhibitions

2009 qi peng’s greatest misses [includes collaborations with Marie Ann Barnhurst and Michelle Kurtz (Circlegal)], Tanner Frames, Salt Lake City, Utah

www.collegeartonline.com [curated by Adam Rosepink and Vincent de Sarthe], Collegeartonline, Paradise Valley, Arizona.

2008 www.culturehall.com/qi_peng [curated by David Andrew Frey], Long Island City, New York

New York Art Exchange or nyaxe.com/qipeng [curated picks artist by myartspace], NYAXE.com, Palo Alto, California

qipeng.ugallery.com [curated by Alex Farkas, Deborah Mosch, Alfred Quiroz, Carol Wittner], Ugallery, Scottsdale, Arizona

Fine Art Adoption Network [curated by Adam Simon], internet, Brooklyn, New York

2007 alchemy of history, model.citizen gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah

industrial landscapes, modern8 gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah

group exhibitions

2009 FEATURED WORK FROM CULTUREHALL MEMBERS JORUND AASE DAVID SMITH QI PENG SUKI CHAN ISSUE 15 MARCH 25 – APRIL 7 [curated by David Andrew Frey], culturehall, Long Island City, New York

7th Annual 300 Plates Fundraiser and Exhibition, Art Access/VSA Arts of Utah Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah

Guilty Pleasures, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The 11th Annual Postcards From the Edge Benefit (The Body: Visual AIDS), Metro Pictures, New York City, New York

2009.02.19 to 2009.03.21 Inaugural Exhibit [curated by Joshua Wohl], Art Raw Gallery, New York City, New York

2008 SCENE: New Haven Photo Sale, Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut

Fountain Miami 2008 [curated by David Andrew Frey], culturehall, Long Island City, New York

2008 NURTUREart Benefit Exhibition [curated by Koan Jeff-Baysa, Lowell Pettit, Amy Rosenblum Martin, Lilly Wei], James Cohan Gallery, New York City, New York

The World’s Smallest Art Fair, Anna Kustera, New York City, New York

Failure—Feel Free to Hate This Exhibition, The Lab at Belmar, Lakewood, Colorado

 
Artworks adopted from this artist:
Pinky
event (masking tape)
Painting 6 x 4 inches
Pinky
upside down nude
Painting 11 x 14 inches
Pinky
recombinent 25
Painting 24 x 9 inches