Nasce a New York nel 1953. Inizia gli studi alla Philips Academy di Andover, nel Massachusetts, che frequenta dal 1967 al 1971. In questo periodo, Halley avverte l’influenza del testo Interaction of Color del 1963 di Josef Albers, che costituirà un punto di riferimento per tutto il suo lavoro. Dopo gli studi all'università di Yale e di New Orleans, città in cui vive per un lungo periodo, nella metà degli anni ’80 inizia ad esporre a New York. Autore di numerosi scritti teorici, nel 2002 diventa Director of Graduate Studies di pittura alla Yale School of Art. Attraverso l’impiego di geometrie e colori acrilici intensi e accesi elabora un’arte neo-concettuale costruita principalmente su rigide geometrie.
SELEZIONE ESPOSIZIONI PERSONALI:
1978
New Orleans, Contemporary Art Center
1980
New York, P.S. 122, Peter Halley: Post- Classical Paintings and Drawings
1984
New York, Beulah Land
1985
New York, International with Monument
1986
Parigi, Galerie Daniel Templon
New York, International with Monument
1987
Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery
New York, Sonnabend Gallery
1988
Chicago, Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Zurigo, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger
Colonia, Jablonka Galery
1989
New York, Sonnabend Gallery
Krefeld, Museum Haus Esters (itinerante), Peter Halley: Recent Paintings
Napoli, Galleria Lia Rumma
1990
New York, 303 Gallery, Kodaliths
Santa Monica, Michael Kohn Gallery, Relief Sculpture
1991
Zurigo, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger
Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux (itinerante), Peter Hallery: Oeuvres de 1982 a 1991
Chicago, Rhona Hoffman
1992
New York, Gagosian Gallery
Parigi, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac
Des Moines, Des Moines Art Center, Paintings 1989 - 1992
Barcellona, Galeria Senda, Drawings
1993
Colonia, Jablonka Galerie
Santa Monica, The Board Art Foundation
Ginevra, Art & Public, Works on Paper
1994
New York, Grand Salon, Mono-reliefs
New York, Andrea Rosen Gallery, A Series of Rotating Installations: Peter Halley
1995
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Images, Masks and Models
Parigi, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
St. Louis, Schmidt Contemporary Art, Drawings 1977 - 1978
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Encounters 6
1996
Washington, Baumgartner Galleries, Painting and Drawings
Monaco, Edition Schellmann, Prints
Como, Contemporaneacomo 2
Roma, Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone
1997
New York, Museum of Modern Art, New Concepts in Printmaking I
Brescia, Galleria Massimo Minini
Roma, Gian Enzo Sperone
1998
Essen, Museum Folkwang, Peter Halley, Paintings of the 90s
Colonia, Jablonka Galerie, Peter Halley: New Paintings
Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Peter Halley: Painting as Sociogram 1981-1997
Los Angeles, Ace Gallery
1999
Londra, Waddington Galleries
Madrid, Galeria Javier Lopez
2000
Brescia, Galleria Massimo Minini, Peter Halley
Roma, Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone
Parigi, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac
2001
Londra, Waddington Galleries , Works on Paper by Peter Halley
Miami, Kevin Bruk Gallery
2002
New York, Mary Boone Gallery
Barcellona, Galeria Senda
2003
Milano, Galleria Cardi
Madrid, Galleria Javier Lopez
2004
Salisburgo, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Peter Halley: New Work
New York, Mary Boone Gallery
Parigi, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Conspiracy Theory
2005
Milano, Galleria Cardi, Peter Halley: New Works
Atene, Galerie Xippas, Paintings 1995-2005
Madrid, Galeria Javier Lopez, Drawings
2006
Mosca, Gary Tatintsian Gallery
Helsinki, Galerie Forsblom, Peter Halley: New Works
Aspen, Baldwin Gallery
2007
Londra, Waddington Galleries
Londra, Stuard Shave/Modern Art
2008
Torino, Banca BSI Italia, Peter Halley: works for projects
Torino, Galleria In Arco, Works for Projects
Madrid, Galeria Javier Lopez, Recent Paintings
2009
Helsinki, Galerie Forsblom
Londra, Waddington Galleries, New Work
Berlino, El Sourdog Hex, Cells and Conduits: Paintings 1987-2002
New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Early Work: 1982 to 1987
2010
Mosca, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Gold
New York, Mary Boone Gallery
2011
Monaco, Galerie Thomas Modern
New York, Gering and Lopez Gallery, Drawings: Four Decades
2012
Brescia, Galleria Massimo Minini
Bruxelles, Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, New Paintings
2013
New York, Mary Boone Gallery
Londra, Waddington Custot Galleries, Paintings 2012 - 2013
Dubai, Mottahedan Projects, Direction
2014
Singapore, Art Plural Gallery
Monaco, Galerie Thomas Modern
Helsinki, Galerie Forsblom
Saint Etienne Métropole, Museé d’art moderne, Since 2000
2015
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Geometry of the Absurd: Recent Paintings by Peter Halley
Tel Aviv, Sommer Contemporary Art
Ginevra, Galerie Xippas
2016
Modena, Galleria Mazzoli, Peter Halley: New Paintings - Associations, Proximities, Conversions, Grids
Francoforte, Kunsthalle Schirn, The Schirn Ring
2017
New York, Karma, Boats Crosses Trees Figures Gouaches 1977-78
Londra, Stuart Shave Modern Art, Peter Halley Paintings from the 1980s
Mosca, Gary Tatintsian Gallery
2018
New York, Sperone Westwater, Peter Halley: Unseen Paintings: 1997-2002, from the Collection of Gian Enzo Sperone
Parigi, Galerie Xippas, Au-Dessous/Au Dessus
Monaco, Galerie Thomas Modern, Peter Halley. Patterns and Figures, Gouaches 1977/78
2019
Venezia, Magazzini del Sale, Heterotopia I
Stoccolma, Galerie Forsblom
New York, Greene Naftali Gallery, Heterotopia II
2020
Monaco, Galerie Retelet, Peter Halley: Paintings 2000-2018
Aspen, Baldwin Gallery, Peter Halley
Berlino, König Galerie - Galerie Thomas, Peter Halley / Anselm Reyle
2021
Brescia, Galleria Massimo Minini, New Paintings
Dallas, Dallas Contemporary, Peter Halley: Cell Grids
Parigi, Galerie Xippas, Peter Halley: Recent Paintings
2022
Madrid, Lopez de La Serna Contemporary Arts Center, Peter Halley: The Early Paintings
SELEZIONE ESPOSIZIONI COLLETTIVE:
1978
New Orleans, Newspace Gallery
1979
New York, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1980
New Orleans, Contemporary Arts Center, Louisiana Major Works
1982
New York, The Drawing Center
New York, Parsons School of Design, Dangerous Works
1985
New York, Postmasters Gallery, Paravision
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Currents
Copenaghen, Udstillingsbygning ved Charlottenborg (itinerante), A Brave New World, A New generation: 40 New York Artists
San Paolo, Biennale de São Paulo
1986
Cleveland, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, New New York
Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museun of Art, Painting and Sculpture Today 1986
Nizza, Villa Arson, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Tableaux Abstraits
Colonia, Ludwig Köln Museum, Europa/Amerika
1987
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987 Biennial Exhibition
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Avant-Garde in the Eighties
New York, Columbia University Art Gallery (itinerante), Similia/Dissimilia
Kassel, Documenta 8
Parigi, Grand Palais, Terrae Motus
1988
Atene, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Cultural Geometry
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (itinerante), Collection Sonnabend: 25 years of selection and Activity
Lione, Musée Saint Pierre, La Couleur Seule: L’Experience du monochrome
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts - Institute of Contemporary Art (itinerante), American Art of the Late 80s: The Binational
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie International
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Collection and Major Loans
Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Three Decades: The Oliver Hoffman Collection
1989
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Horn of Plenty
Francoforte, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Schirn Kunsthalle, Prospect 89
Fort Worth, Fort Worth Museum of Art (itinerante), Ten + Ten: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters
Atene, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Psychological Abstraction
Monaco, Kunstverein, Gober, Halley, Kessler, Wool: Four Artists from New York
1991
Trento, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, American Art of the 80s
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991 Biennial Exhibition
Andover, Addison Gallery of American Art (itinerante), American Abstraction at the Addison
Berlino, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Metropolis: International Art Exhibition Berlin 1991
Londra, Serpentine Gallery, Objects for the Ideal Home: The Legacy of Pop Art
1992
New York, Kunsthall, Psycho: Inaugural Exhibition
Long Island City, P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, Slow Art
1993
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Building a Collection: The Department of Contemporary Art
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Tradition of Geometric Abstraction in American Art 1930-1990
Venezia, Biennale di Venezia, I love You More than My Own Death
1994
Saitama, Museum of Modern Art, Cross and Square Grids
Miami, Center of the Fine Arts, Abstraction: A tradition of Collecting in Miami
Ginevra, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Rudiments d’un musée possible
1995
Grenoble, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Choice Morsels from the Collection of the Centre National d’Art Contemporain
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe
New Orleans, Contemporary Arts Center, New York Abstract
Houston, University of Houston (itinerante), Critiques of Pure Abstraction
Parigi, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Private Passions
1996
Berlino, Hamburger Bahnof, Marx Collection
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980
Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, A History of Technical visions
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (itinerante), New Abstraction
Barcellona, Museu d’Art Contemporani (itinerante), Multiple Identities: Works from the Whitney Museum of American Art
1998
Malmö, Malmö Konsthall, Arteries
Amburgo, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Fast Forward 4. Selection: FFWD Archives
1999
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Examining Pictures: Exhibition of 56 Artists Links Generations of Painters
Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum (itinerante), Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
2000
Long Island City, MoMA P.S.1., Around 1984: A look at Art in the Eighties
Zurigo, Kunst Zürich, From Albers to Paik: Works of the DaimlerChrysler Collection
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture
2001
Ginevra, MAMCO Musée d’Art Moderde et Contemporain
New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Digital Printmaking Now
Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mythic Proportions, Paintings from the 1980s
Praga The Centre of Contemporary Art, American Art from the Goetz Collection
2002
Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, We love Painting! Contemporary American Art from Misumi Collection
Milano, Palazzo Reale, New York Reinassance: Masterworks from the Whitney Museum of American Art
Zurigo, Kunsthaus Zürich, Public Affairs
2004
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tear Down This Wall: Paintings from the 1980s
New York, New Museum, East Village USA
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present
2005
Basilea, Kunstmuseum, Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the 80s
Istanbul, Proje4L Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, A view from 1988 Up to now
2007
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Shapes of Space
Tokyo, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art (itinerante), Pop Art, 1960s-200s: from Lichtenstein, Warhol to the Current Generation
2009
Grenoble, MAGASIN (itinerante), Portrait de l’artiste en motocycliste
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
New York, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, Synthetics
New York, New Museum, Structures-Space
2010
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Re-Seeing the Contemporary: Selected from the Collection
Los Angeles, los Angeles County Museum of Art, Color and Form
Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, The 80s Revisited: The Bischofberger Collection
Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst, Pictures about Pictures: Discursive Painting from Albers to Zobernig
2011
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Monaco, Pinakothek der Moderne, Let’s Party for a Piece of Art
Valencia, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (itinerante), Surreal versus Surrealism in Contemporary Art
Venezia, 54 Biennale di Venezia, Personal Structures
2012
Jacksonville, Museum of Contemporary Art, ReFocus: Art of the 1980s
New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1980-now
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Paintings: 1960 to the Present
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art (itinerante), This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s
2013
Milano, La Triennale di Milano, Forty Years of Contemporary Art: Massimo Minini 1973-2013
Norimberga, Neues Museum (itinerante), When Now is Minimal: The Unknown Side of the Goetz Collection
Praga, 6th Prague Biennale
New York, The Artist’s Institute, The Bigger Picture
2014
Parigi, Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 30 Years
Venezia, Ca’ Pesaro, From Rauschenberg to Jeff Koons: The Ileana Sonnabend Collection
Essen, Museum Folkwang, Dis order - Pattern and Structure in the Collection
2015
Buenos Aires, museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Geometric Obsession: American School 1965-2015
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Background Image
Ginevra, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, One More Time: The Exhibitions of our Exhibitions
Losanna, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Dominos
Londra, Whitechapel Gallery, Adventures of the Black Square
2016
Brema, Weserburg Museum, I prefer life
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Passages in Modern Art: 1946-1996
Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, The Promise of a Total Automation
2017
Bilbao, Guggenheim Bilbao, Art and Space
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Stedelijk Base
Los Angeles, The Broad Museum, Oracle
2018
Parigi, Centre Pompidou, Donation Marie-Aline Prat
Washington, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s
2020
Vienna, Albertina Museum, The Essl Collection
Bruxelles, Kanal Centre Pompidou, It Never Ends: John Armleder & Guests
Miami, Rubell Museum, Collection Highlights
2021
Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Big! Large-format works from the Sprengel Museum Hannover
Vienna, Albertina Museum, The 80s. Art of the Eighties
Lincoln, Sheldon Museum of Art, Point of departure: Abstraction 1958-Present
