biography
Peter Halley, born 1953 in New York, is one of the most influential artists on the international scene. He became known in the mid-1980s as the driving force behind the so-called neo-Geo movement. Although he uses geometry as a fundamental support for his works, he always insists on his figurative reference: the space and time of our society, its political and social terrain, the closed order in which we live. His cold, rectilinear forms are the plastic expression of our complex urban landscape: rectangular cells connected by networks of ducts, prisons, diagrams, isolated organisms. They also refer us to our social environment with their characteristic Roll-a-tex texture and the expressive use of colors, establishing filiations with Pop Art, digital information and mass culture.
His works have been shown at various institutions such as The Lever House Art Collection (New York), Kunsthalle Schirn (Frankfurt), Museum Folkwang (Essen), The Museum of Modern Art (New York), Galerie Bruno Bischofberger (Zurich) and The Centre Pompidou (Paris).
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Heterotypoa I, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2018
New York, New York, The Lever House Art Collection, New York
2016
The Schirn Ring, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt
2015
Geometry of the Absurd: Recent Paintings by Peter Halley, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
Big Paintings, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme
2014
Since 2000, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint Etienne Métropole
2013
Peter Halley, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2010
Works from the 80s, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich
Peter Halley, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2009
Early Work: 1982 to 1987, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2008
Monotypes, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Peter Halley, Banca BSI Italia, Turin
2007
A Rebours, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2005
Peter Halley: Present and Past, Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Baton Rouge
2004
Peter Halley: New Work, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Peter Halley, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Conspiracy Theory, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2002
Peter Halley, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2000
Peter Halley, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
1999
Peter Halley, The Butler Institute of Contemporary Art, Youngstown
1998
Peter Halley. Paintings of the 90s, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Peter Halley: Small Paintings, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Peter Halley: Painting as Sociogram 1981-1997, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu
1997
New Concepts in Printmaking I, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Peter Halley. Three Small New Paintings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
1996
Prins, Edition Schellmann, Munich
1995
Peter Halley, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Peter Halley, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Encounters 6, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
1994
Peter Halley, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Peter Halley, The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica
1993
Peter Halley, The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica
1992
Peter Halley, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Peter Halley, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Paintings 1989-1992, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
1991
Peter Halley, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Peter Halley: Oeuvres de 1982 à 1991, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux
Peter Halley, FAE Musée d’Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne
Peter Halley, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Peter Halley, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1989
Peter Halley, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Peter Halley: Recent Paintings, Krefelder Kunstmuseum, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld
Peter Halley, Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
Peter Halley, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1988
Peter Halley, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
1987
Peter Halley, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1986
Peter Halley, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris