Qi Peng

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 artists 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 Central Booking, envoy enterprises, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, the Projects Gallery, The Lab at Belmar, modern8 Gallery, Claire Oliver Gallery/NURTUREart, James Cohan Gallery/NURTUREart, Metro Pictures, Art Raw Gallery, and Anna Kustera.

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 othe...

He received his masters degree at Yale University. He is exhibited at envoy enterprises, Projects Gallery, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, The Lab at Belmar, modern8 Gallery, and the Gallery at SL Library Square.,