qi peng, conceptual artist's photostream

qi peng
974 West Big River Court
Unit 3
Salt Lake City UT 84119
(801) 879-1971
qipengart@gmail.com

portfolio websites

www.qipeng.net

born 1976, Queens, New York City, New York
lives and works in Salt Lake City and New York City
represented nonexclusively by The Barbara Ann Levy Gallery in West Palm Beach, FL

education

1999-2001 Yale University, New Haven
1994-1997 Vanderbilt University, Nashville

solo exhibitions

2010 industrial landscapes, The Gallery at Library Square, Salt Lake City, Utah

2009 July Featured Registry Artist [curated by Hannah Gibson], internet at www.nurtureart.org/nurtureart/index.php?ptr=page&guid=1, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, New York

the qi peng dynasty (we are duchampions), Envoy Gallery/envoy enterprises, New York City, New York

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], culturehall, 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

2010 Locales [curated by Matt Jacobson], galleryuaf, Salt Lake City, Utah

2009 SUMMER SESSION [VIP artist with Jerry Blackman, curated by Leah Stuhltrager, Rebecca A. Layton, Paige King], internet at www.summersession101.blogspot.com, Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

VIDEO LIBRARY (the games people play DVD), Small A Projects, New York City, New York

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

Sex Cells: An Open Call for Erotic Cell Phone Art [curated by Dian Hanson, Chase Lisbon, and Ashlea Halpern], 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, 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

bibliography

2009 The Open Studios Press, “qi peng,” Studio Visit Magazine [curated by Ian Berry], Winter 2009

Coffelt, Jon, “Are We The Duchampions?” Apples to Oranges & Everything in Between: Art in New York and Beyond, internet at thewhole9.com/blogs/applestooranges/2009/06/25/are-we-the..., June 25, 2009

Winkleman, Edward, “We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming….almost,” edward_ winkleman, internet at edwardwinkleman.blogspot.com/2009/05/we-now-return-to-our..., May 19, 2009

Chamberlain, Amanda, “Cover story: qi peng,” In Utah This Week, internet at www.inthisweek.com/view.php?id=342133, April 23, 2009

Chamberlain, Amanda, “In’s Gallery of Fine Art: qi peng,” In Utah This Week, April 23, 2009, p. 29

Sherwin, Brian, “Art Space Talk: qi peng (Part 3),” MYARTSPACE > BLOG, internet at www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/04/art-space-talk-qi-peng-pa..., April 19, 2009

Sherwin, Brian, “Art Space Talk: qi peng (Part 2),” MYARTSPACE > BLOG, internet at www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/04/art-space-talk-qi-peng-pa..., April 19, 2009

Sherwin, Brian, “Art Space Talk: qi peng (Part 1),” MYARTSPACE > BLOG, internet at www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/04/art-space-talk-qi-peng-pa..., April 19, 2009

Coffelt, Jon, “REVERSE ASSASSINATION: Jon Coffelt Meets qi peng, Artist,” Salt Lake City Fine Arts Examiner, internet at www.examiner.com/x-3879-Salt-Lake-City-Fine-Arts-Examiner..., April 6, 2009

Wagner, James, “qi peng’s conceptual interviews,” jameswagner.com, internet at jameswagner.com/2009/03/me.html, March 26, 2009

Sherwin, Brian, “My Response to Shepard Fairey concerning his ‘AP, Obama, and Referencing’ message on ObeyGiant.com. Part 1,” MYARTSPACE > BLOG, internet at www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/03/my-response-to-shepard-fa..., March 25, 2009

Winkleman, Edward, “Getting Ready for My Arts Blogosphere Spring Cleaning,” edward_ winkleman, internet at edwardwinkleman.blogspot.com/2009/03/getting-ready-for-my..., March 17, 2009

Powhida, William, “Buck Naked unmasked? Nah…,” William Powhida: “Cheerily Risks Redundancy…” – Art in America, internet at williampowhida.blogspot.com/2009/03/buck-naked-unmasked-n..., March 6, 2009

Rywalt, Chris, “How’s My Graphic Design?” NYC Art, internet at , February 14, 2009

Fallon, Roberta and Libby Rossof, “What we want to see First Friday, Feb. 6,” Artblog, internet at fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/2009/02/what-we-want-to-see-f..., February 2, 2009

Villarreal Jr., Ignacio, “Guilty Pleasures & Obama-rama Open at Projects Gallery,” artdaily.org, internet at www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=28645, January 24, 2009

Rubin, Lloyd S., “’Obama-o-Rama’ and ‘Guilty Pleasures’,” Art Knowledge News, internet at www.artknowledgenews.com/obama_o_rama_at_projects_gallery..., January 24, 2009

Sheehan, Gavin, “Qi Peng Interview,” Gavin’s Underground, internet at community.kutv.com/blogs/games/archive/2009/01/05/3649240..., January 5, 2009

2008 Staker, Brian, “A&E|Studio Space: IAO Projects expands the horizons of a ‘gallery.’,” Salt Lake City Weekly, September 4, 2008, p. 27

Mann-Mellus, Mariah, “Gallery Stroll,” SLUG Magazine, February 2008, internet at www.slugmag.com/article.php?id=1170, p. 12

public and private collections

modern8 Corporation
The Lab at Belmar
Matt Jones
Claire Oliver
Kadar Brock
Cheryl McGinnis and Family
William Powhida
James Wagner and Barry Hoggard
Jon Coffelt and Shawn Boley
Christina Ray
Liz Danahey Fish
Various private and public collections in Salt Lake City, New York City, Los Angeles, St. Louis, etc.

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 envoy enterprises, the Projects Gallery, The Lab at Belmar, modern8 Gallery, James Cohan Gallery/NURTUREart, Metro Pictures/Visual AIDS, Art Raw Gallery, and Anna Kustera. He is represented nonexclusively by The Barbara Ann Levy Gallery in West Palm Beach, Florida.