Peter Halley

Peter Halley was born in 1953 in New York City, where he still lives. He graduated from Yale University with a BA in Art History in 1975 and went on to the University of New Orleans for his painting MFA, moving back to New York in 1980. Halley became an important voice in the burgeoning New York art scene of the following decade, specifically the Neo-Conceptualism movement, and has since exhibited in major galleries all over the world, with works included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Fondation Cartier, Tate and Whitney Museum among many others. Renowned for his paintings and prints as well as large-scale site-specific installations, Halley is also an influential essayist and a former publisher of Index magazine (1996-05). Peter Halley: Cell Grids is at Dallas Contemporary until February 2022 and an exhibition of his work from the 1980s will be taking place at Mudam in Luxembourg in 2023.

Past exhibitions

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
  • Peter Halley, Galeria Millan, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Peter Halley: Cell Grids, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, USA
  • Peter Halley: Three Paintings, Almine Rech, Shanghai, Huangpu, Shanghai, China
  • Peter Halley: New Paintings, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
2020
  • Peter Halley: Networks, James Barron Art, Kent, Connecticut, USA
  • Peter Halley: New paintings, Galería Senda, Barcelona, Spain
  • Peter Halley: New Works, Maruani Mercier, Knokke, Knokke-heist, Belgium
2019
  • Peter Halley: Heterotopia II, Greene Naftali, New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Peter Halley: New paintings, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • Peter Halley­, Galerie Forsblom, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
2018
  • Peter Halley, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Peter Halley: New York, New York, Lever House Art Collection, New York, USA
  • Peter Halley, Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
  • Peter Halley: Patterns and Figures, Gouaches 1977/78, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
2017
  • Peter Halley, Greene Naftali, New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Peter Halley, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • Peter Halley: Paintings from the 1980s, Modern Art London, Helmet Row, London, UK
2016
  • Peter Halley: SAW: A Suite of Four New Paintings, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • H-H. Halley meets Hortal, Galería Senda, Barcelona, Spain
2015
  • Geometry of the Absurd: Recent Paintings by Peter Halley, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA
  • Peter Halley, Galerie Xippas, Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Peter Halley, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Peter Halley: Big Paintings, Waddington Custot, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Peter Halley: Big Paintings, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA
2014
  • Peter Halley: Solo Exhibition, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore, Singapore
  • Peter Halley, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
2013
  • Peter Halley: Prints & Editions: 25 Years, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
  • Peter Halley, Galerie Xippas, Paris, 3e, Paris, France
  • Peter Halley: Paintings 2012-2013, Waddington Custot, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Peter Halley, Patricia Low Contemporary, St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2011
  • Peter Halley, Galerie Xippas, Paris, 3e, Paris, France
  • Peter Halley, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • Peter Halley, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
2010
  • Peter Halley, Mary Boone Gallery, 24th Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
2009
  • Peter Halley: Early Work: 1982 to 1987, Mary Boone Gallery, 5th Avenue, New York, USA
  • Peter Halley, Waddington Custot, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Peter Halley: New Work, Waddington Custot, Mayfair, London, UK
2008
  • Peter Halley: Monotypes, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (Marais), 3e, Paris, France
  • Peter Halley MONOTYPES, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (Villa Kast), Salzburg, Austria
  • Peter Halley & Alessandro Medini, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
  • Peter Halley and Alessandro, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • Charity Licht Ins Dunkel, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (Villa Kast), Salzburg, Austria
  • Opening Perrotin Secondary Market, Galerie Perrotin, Paris (8 Av Matignon), 8e, Paris, France
  • The Red Show, James Barron Art, Kent, Connecticut, USA
  • It Was Acceptable in the 80s, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, Palm Desert, California, USA
  • Le Cinquième Printemps, Custot Gallery Dubai, Al Quoz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Quattro Idee, Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna, Italy
  • The Art of the Discovery: Post-War Selections, Hollis Taggart, Southport, Southport, Connecticut, USA
  • ONLINE: Painting Abstraction: 197x – Today, Zeit Contemporary Art, Midtown, New York, USA
  • Innovation, Pace Prints, 26th Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
2020
  • Defining Space. A group exhibition of 20th and 21st century artists, Waddington Custot, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Gift Guide, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • Shaping Contemporary Art. From Warhol and Lichtenstein to Halley and Förg, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • The Shop Show, Baronian Xippas, Brussels (Rue Isidore Verheyden), Brussels, Belgium
  • Zero Gravity Persuasions: Painting, Sculpture, & Multiples 1964 – 2019, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
  • 1986, Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
  • That’s the Way It Is. Digressions on Geometric Abstraction, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
  • ONLINE: Ice and Fire: A Benefit Exhibition in Three Parts, The Kitchen, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • All of the Above, 2011 – 2020, KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium
  • Group Exhibition, Maruani Mercier, Knokke, Knokke-heist, Belgium
  • ONLINE: Viewing Room #3, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • ONLINE: The Coalition For The Homeless, Almine Rech, London, London, UK
  • Highlights of the 21st century collection, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
  • ONLINE: Group Exhibition, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • ONLINE: The Radical Line, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, Palm Desert, California, USA
  • From Munch to Uecker: Masterpieces from Classic Modernism to Contemporary Art, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • Recent Acquisitions Of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA
  • Peter Halley & Bryan Hunt, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, USA
  • S.p.A.A. Society for Artistic Actions, Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna, Italy
  • Comfort, Friedman Benda, New York, USA
2019
  • I-D, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Keith Mayerson: Friends And Family, Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Minimalist Prints, Augen Gallery (Desoto Building), Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Lineup, Almine Rech, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • The Sonnabend Collection, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • John Squire: Disinformation, Newport Street Gallery, London, UK
  • Reason Gives No Answers, Newport Street Gallery, London, UK
  • Summer Selections 2019, Berry Campbell, New York, USA
  • Contemporary Master Prints, Augen Gallery (Desoto Building), Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Peter Halley and Ugo Rondinone: Still, Modern Art London, Vyner Street, London, UK
  • Masterpieces Modern, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • Rehang: Archives, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • Paintings, Mary Boone Gallery, 24th Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Figures & Flowers, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
2018
  • Grafik, Harper’s East Hampton, East Hampton, New York, USA
  • A Measure of Humanity, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, USA
  • Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
  • The Pink House, Nina Johnson, Miami, Florida, USA
  • Kedem-Kodem-Kadima, CCA Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Geometries, Onassis Stegi Athens, Athens, Greece
  • Making Space, Mixografia, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Selections from David E. Stone’s Art Collection, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • GESTURE | FORM | POP | PROCESS, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Peter Halley & Robert Mangold: Modern / Postmodern, Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
  • Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, National Mall, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
  • ROYGBIV, Kate Werble Gallery, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2017
  • Apparizioni, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence, Italy
  • Selected Works, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • No Transport, Super Dakota, Brussels, Belgium
  • The birth of abstraction. Line and color in the IVAM collection, IVAM, Institut Valencià d`Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
  • Color Block, Triple V, rue du Mail, 2e, Paris, France
  • Colour is, Waddington Custot, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Pattern Recognition, Galerie Xippas, Paris, 3e, Paris, France
  • Dialéctica, Galerie Xippas, Punta del Este, Uruguay
2016
  • Black N’ White, Andrea Caratsch Gallery, St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
  • Every Future Has a Price: 30 Years After Infotainment, Elizabeth Dee, Harlem, New York, USA
  • Escape Gravity, Felix Ringel Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Bad Faith, James Fuentes, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • GVA ← → JFK, MAMCO Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland
  • TRIP, Galerie Xippas, Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • Group show, Baronian Xippas, Brussels (Rue de la Concorde), Brussels, Belgium
  • An Abstraction Way, Federico Bianchi Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy
  • The Promise of Total Automation, Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria
  • Low, Lyles & King, New York, USA
  • The Sonnabend Collection: Half a Century of European and American Art, Part I, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
  • In Different Ways, Almine Rech, London (Savile Row), Mayfair, London, UK
  • BENE•F•ACTION, Meislin Projects, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2015
  • Abstracción, Galerie Xippas, Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • SECOND WAVE: Aesthetics of the 80s in Today’s Contemporary Art, California Museum Of Photography, UCR, Riverside, California, USA
  • 30 / 130: Thirty Years of Books and Catalogs, etc., White Columns, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
  • Flat World, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Bonsai #5, Maccarone, Morton Street, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
  • Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to the Digital Sublime, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
  • FORMING LOOSE, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
  • Rio, Office Baroque, Place du Jardin aux Fleurs, Brussels, Belgium
  • A Personal Sonic Geology, Frac Ile-de-France, Le Plateau, 19e, Paris, France
  • The Broad Gift, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
  • A Collector’s Legacy: Highlights from The Francien C. Ruwitch and the Ruwitch Family Collections, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Miami, Florida, USA
  • Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915–2015, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
  • Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015, Waddington Custot, Mayfair, London, UK
2014
  • Meyer Vaisman: In The Vicinity of History, 5774, KaBe Contemporary, Downtown Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
  • Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
  • URBAN THEATER: NEW YORK ART IN THE 1980s, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Ft. Worth, Texas, USA
  • Happy Birthday Franz!, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris (Belleville), 20e, Paris, France
  • the mysterious device was moving forward, Longhouse Projects, New York, USA
  • Jeannette Montgomery Barron: Scene, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • Group Exhibition of European and International Paintings and Sculptures, Waddington Custot, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Speaking Through Paint: Hans Hofmann’s Legacy Today, Bookstein Projects, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2013
  • Miquel Barcelo, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
  • When Now is Minimal: The Unknown Side of the Goetz Collection, Sammlung Goetz (Goetz Collection), Munich, Germany
  • When Now is Minimal. The Unknown Side of the Goetz Collection, Museion, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy
  • Exposición 93, CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
  • D’un Discours Qui Ne Serait Pas Du Semblant / Actors, Networks, Theories, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Daimler Contemporary, Daimler Contemporary, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
  • When Now is Minimal. The Unknown Side of the Goetz Collection, Sammlung Goetz (Goetz Collection), Munich, Germany
  • Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art from the Permanent Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
  • The System of Objects, DESTE Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
  • NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Geometric Abstraction, Pace Prints, 57th Street, 57th Street, New York, USA
2012
  • Cellblock II, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Time Capsule, Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
2011
  • The Bewildered Image: American Painters From The 1980’s, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction From the 1960s to Now, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, UK
  • Subrreal Versus Subrealism in Contemporary Art, IVAM, Institut Valencià d`Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
  • Look, Galerie Xippas, Paris, 3e, Paris, France
2010
  • Time Capsule, Age 13 to 21: The Contemporary Art Collection of Jason Rubell, Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
2009
  • A Tribute To Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, 24th Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Anne Appleby, Peter Halley, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin, Germany
  • Aye Pop Ping! Works By Anselm Reyle, Peter Halley, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • Anselm Reyle, Peter Halley, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • Ryan McGinness Works, Jeffrey Deitch, New York (Wooster Str), Soho, New York, USA
2008
  • Peter Halley & Alessandro Mendini, Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea, Palermo, Palermo, Italy
  • Sensory Overload: Light, Motion Sound and the Optical in Art since 1945, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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