Peter Halley
Peter Halley was born in 1953 in New York City. He received his BA from Yale University and his MFA from the University of New Orleans in 1978, remaining in New Orleans until 1980. Since 1980, Halley has lived and worked in New York.
Biography
Peter Halley was born in 1953 in New York City. He received his BA from Yale University and his MFA from the University of New Orleans in 1978, remaining in New Orleans until 1980. Since 1980, Halley has lived and worked in New York.
For over twenty-five years, Peter Halley’s geometric paintings have been engaged in a play of relationships between what he calls “prisons” and “cells” – icons that reflect the increasing geometricization of social space in the world in which we live.
Halley has had one-person museum exhibitions at the capc Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (1991), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (1992), the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1992), the Des Moines Art Center (1992), the Dallas Museum of Art (1995), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997), the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (1998), the Museum Folkwang, Essen (1998), and the Butler Institute of American Art (1999).
His work has been exhibited in galleries in Chicago, London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rome, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Since the mid-1990s, Halley has produced site-specific installations for exhibitions and as permanent public works. These projects have been realized at the State University of New York, Buffalo (1998), the city library in Usera, Spain (2002), the Banco Suisso d’Italia Art Collection, Turin (2003), and the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas (2005). In 2008, he completed a large permanent installation for the Gallatin School at New York University.
Halley has also written on art and culture throughout his career. His early essays, which address post-structuralism, post-modernism, and the digital revolution of the 1980s, have been anthologized in two books of collected writings. In 2001, he received the Frank Jewett Mather Award from the College Art Association in the U.S. for his critical writing.
From 1996 to 2006, Peter Halley published index magazine, which featured in-depth interviews with creative people. He has taught at Columbia University, UCLA, and the School of Visual Arts. Halley was Director of Graduate Studies in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale University School of Art from 2002 to 2011.
Exhibitions
2018
Galerie Thomas, Munich, Peter Halley. Patterns and Figures, Gouaches 1977/78
MARUANI MERCIER GALLERY, Brussels, Modern – Postmodern
2017
Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Peter Halley
2016
Mazzoli, Modena, Peter Halley – New Paintings: Associations, Proximities, Conversions, Grids.
2014
Art Plural Gallery, Singapore, Peter Halley: Solo Exhibition
2006
“Peter Halley,” Art & Public, Geneva
“Peter Halley,” Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc., Moscow
2005
“Peter Halley,” Galeria dels Àngels, Barcelona
“Peter Halley – New Works,” Galleria Cardi, Milano
2004
“Peter Halley,” Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac – Paris, Paris
Galeria Presenca, Porto, Portugal
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Mary Boone, New York
Alain Noirhomme Gallerie, Brussels
2003
“Peter Halley,” Galleria Cardi, Milano
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California
Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid
2000
“Peter Halley,” Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac – Paris, Paris
Galeria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Galeria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid (installation)
1999
C.A.I.S. Gallery, Seoul (installation)
Grant-Selwyn Gallery, New York
Waddington Gallery, London (installation, catalogue)
Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
1998
“Peter Halley, Paintings of the 1990s,” Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany (installation, catalogue)
“Peter Halley: Small Paintings,” Gallery Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
“Peter Halley, New Paintings,” Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
“Peter Halley, Painting as Sociogram 1981 – 1997,” The Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan (catalogue)
“Exploding Cell: Peter Halley,” Soap Gallery, Kitakyushu
“Peter Halley: Paintings and Drawings,” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
MODULO, Lisbon
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
1997
“New Concepts in Printmaking1: Peter Halley,” Museum of Modern Art, New York (installation)
“The Peter Halley Project,” University Gallery, SUNY Buffalo, New York (installation)
“Peter Halley,” Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
“Peter Halley,” Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
“Peter Halley,” Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
1996
“Paintings and Drawings,” Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C.
“Peter Halley: Prints,” Edition Schellmann, Munich Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Contemporaneacomo2, Como, Italy (catalogue)
“Peter Halley,” Galeria Javier Lopez,
1995
11, rue Larrey at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (artist’s statement)
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston (exb.cat.)
Gallery Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
“Wall Installation,” TZ?fArt, New York
“Peter Halley – Exploding Cell,” Edition Schellmann and Pace Prints, New York
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (installation)
“Peter Halley, Drawings 1991-1995,” travelling exhibition, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
“Drawings 1977-1978,” Schmidt Contemporary Art, St.Louis, MO
“Peter Halley – Paintings: 1980- 1981,” Turner, Byrne & Runyon Gallery, Dallas, TX
“Encounters 6,” Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
1994
Gallery Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
“Monoreliefs,” Collins & Milazzo – Grand Salon, New York (exb.cat.)
Eli Broad Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
1993
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne Turner & Byrne, Dallas, TX
“Peter Halley: New Project,” Edition Schellmann, New York
The Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
“Peter Halley Works on Paper,” Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
1992
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
“Peter Halley: Paintings 1989 – 1992,” Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (exb.cat.)
Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Drawings,” Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
1991
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gallery Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
“Drawings,” Jason Rubell Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
“Peter Halley,” Capc Musee D’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; FAE, Musee d’art contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (to 1992) (exb.cat.)
1990
“Kodaliths,” 303 Gallery, New York
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA
“Relief Sculpture,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989
Sonnabend Gallery, New York “Peter Halley: Recent Paintings,” Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Museen Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
Maison de la culture et de la communication de Saint-Etienne, France
Institute of Contemporary Art, London (exb.cat.)
Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
1988
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gallery Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany (exb.cat.)
1987
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1986
Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris (exb.cat.)
International with Monument Gallery, New York
1985
International with Monument Gallery, New York
1984
Beulah Land, New York
1980
P.S. 122, New York
1979
School of Art & Architecture, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
1978
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
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