Ke PENG
彭可
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.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 - Follow the Feeling, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, CN
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
