Exhibitions
Catalogues
Biography
Peter Halley was born 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
2015
Geometry of the Absurd: Recent Paintings by Peter Halley, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
Diagonal Histories, Art+Text Budapest, Budapest
Galerie Xippas, Geneva
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut
Geometry of the Absurd: Recent Paintings by Peter Halley, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
Diagonal Histories, Art+Text Budapest, Budapest
Galerie Xippas, Geneva
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut
2014
Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
Galerie Thomas, Munich
Prisons, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Since 2000, Museé D’Art Moderne, Saint Étienne Métropole, France (catalogue)
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki (catalogue)
2013
Prints and Editions: 25 Years, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
Galerie Xippas, Paris
Mary Boone, New York (collaborative installation with Aslessandro Mendini) (catalogue)
Recent Works, Klaus Steinmetz Contemporary Art, San Jose, Costa Rica (catalogue)
Paintings 2012-2013, Waddington Custot Galleries, London (catalogue)
Patricia Low Contemporary, St Moritz, Switzerland
Mottahedan Projects, Dubai, UAE
2012
Galeria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels
8 Small Prisons and Other Works, Galeria Senda, Barcelona (booklet)
Prison, Disjecta, Portland, OR
2011
Galerie Xippas, Geneva Switzerland
Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich (catalogue)
Peter Halley: Drawings, Four Decades, Gering and Lopez Gallery, New York
2010
Peter Halley– Works from the 80’s, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich
Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia (catalogue)
Maruani & Noirhomme, Knokke, Belgium
Peter Halley: Prints, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2009
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki (catalogue)
Peter Halley, Early Work: 1982 to 1987, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Peter Halley: New Paintings, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Peter Halley: New Work, Waddington Galleries, London
Galerie Alain Noirhomme, Brussels (catalogue)
Peter Halley: Cells and Conduits (Paintings 1987-2002), El Sourdog Hex, Berlin
2008
Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid
Peter Halley/ Alessandro Medini, Galeria Massimo Minini,Brescia, Italy
Peter Halley, Monotypes, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Peter Halley: Works for Projects, Galleria In Arco, Turin (catalogue)
Peter Halley, Banca BSI Italia, Turin (catalogue)
2007
A Rebours, Collaboration with Matali Crasset, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
McClain Gallery, Houston, TX (catalogue)
Waddington Galleries/Modern Art Inc., London (catalogue)
Peter Halley/ Warren McArthur/ New Paintings/ Aluminum Furniture, Rohrer Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2006
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki (catalogue)
Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow (installation, catalogue)
Art & Public, Geneva
Drawings, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
2005
Peter Halley: Present and Past, Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA (catalogue)
Galleria Cardi, Milan
Galerie Alain Noirhomme, Brussels
CAIS Gallery, Seoul (installation, catalogue)
“Peter Halley, Paintings 1995 – 2005,” Galerie Xippas, Athens (catalogue)
Galería Javier Lopez, Madrid
Galería Senda, Barcelona
Galería dels Angels, Barcelona
2004
Galeria Presença, Porto, Portugal
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Alain Noirhomme, Brussels
“Conspiracy Theory,” Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2003
Galería Javier Lopez, Madrid
Galleria Cardi, Milan (catalogue)
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
2002
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY(installation)
Galería Senda, Barcelona
Galería dels Angels, Barcelona
2001
Waddington Galleries, London (catalogue)
Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
2000
Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy (installation)
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome (installation)
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Galería Javier Lopez, Madrid (installation)
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
1999
CAIS Gallery, Seoul (installation)
Grant-Selwyn Gallery, New York, NY
Waddington Galleries, London (installation, catalogue)
Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998
Paintings of the 1990s, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (installation, catalogue)
Small Paintings, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston (catalogue)
Painting as Sociogram: 1981-1997, The Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art,Kitakyushu, Japan (catalogue)
Exploding Cell: Peter Halley, Soap Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan (installation)
Paintings and Drawings, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
MODULO, Lisbon
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997
New Concepts in Printmaking 1: Peter Halley, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (installation)
The Peter Halley Project, University Gallery, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY (installation)
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy (catalogue)
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
1996
Paintings and Drawings, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C.
Prints, Edition Schellmann, Munich
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (installation)
Contemporaneacomo 2, Como, Italy (catalogue)
Galería Javier Lopez, Madrid (installation)
1995
11, rue Larrey at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston (catalogue)
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Wall Installation, TZ Art, New York, NY(installation)
Exploding Cell, Edition Schellmann and Pace Prints, New York, NY
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (installation)
Drawings 1991-1995, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (catalogue) Traveled to: Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis;
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Drawings 1977-1978, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MN
Peter Halley – Paintings: 1980-1981, Turner, Byrne & Runyon, Dallas, TX
Encounters 6, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX(installation)
1994
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Monoreliefs, Grand Salon, New York, NY(catalogue)
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
1993
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Turner & Byrne, Dallas, TX
Peter Halley: New Project, Edition Schellmann, New York, NY
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica
Works on Paper, Art & Public, Geneva
1992
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Peter Halley: Paintings 1989-1992, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (catalogue)
Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica
Drawings, Galería Senda, Barcelona
1991
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Drawings, Jason Rubell Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Peter Halley: Oeuvres de 1982 á 1991,CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France (catalogue)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1992 (catalogue)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1992
1990
Kodaliths, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA(catalogue)
Relief Sculpture, Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Peter Halley: Recent Paintings, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Museen Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany (catalogue) Traveled to: Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France;
Institute of Contemporary Art, London (catalogue);
Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
1988
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne (catalogue)
1987
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
1986
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (catalogue)
International with Monument, New York, NY
1985
International with Monument, New York, NY
1984
Beulah Land, New York, NY
1983
“Peter Halley: Post-Classical Paintings and Drawings,” P.S. 122, New York, NY(installation)
1979
School of Art & Architecture, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
1978
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA