Peter Halley
Peter Halley (* September 24, 1953 in New York City, USA) is an artist who is associated with the abstract art.
Curriculum vitae
His bachelor acquired Halley in 1975 at Yale University and his master's degree in 1978 from the University of New Orleans. He remained in New Orleans until 1980 and then moved to New York, where he still lives and works today.
Halley made for the first time in the early 1980s with his geometric paintings in fluorescent colors for attention. For over 25 years, the geometric paintings of Peter Halley play with the relationship between "prison" and "cells". To ensure that images reflect According to Peter Halley increasing geometrization of social space in the world in which we live. His work as an artist is usually associated with minimalism and neo- conceptual art. Halley is also active as an author, editor and lecturer.
Halley's first major exhibition in New York in 1985 took place at International with Monument, an art gallery in New York City's East Village. This was followed by exhibitions in the galleries Mary booon Gallery, Sonnabend Gallery, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Jablonka Galerie, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac and Waddington Galleries. In Germany Peter Halley is presented by Galerie Thomas Modern in Munich.
The first exhibition, which offered the first major overview of his work was held at the CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux ( 1991). This was followed by exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid ) ( 1992), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam ) ( 1992), in the Des Moines Art Center (Des Moines, Iowa) (1992 ), the Dallas Museum of Art (1995 ), the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA ) (New York city ) (1997 ), in the city Art Museum Kitakyushu (1998), the Museum Folkwang (Essen) (1998) and Butler Institute of American Art ( Youngstown, Ohio) ( 1999). His works have also been exhibited in galleries in Chicago, London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rome, Seoul and Tokyo.
Since the mid- nineties Halley created installations that related to the particular exhibition or public space - for example, at the State University of New York ( Buffalo ) (2002 ), Turin (2003 ) and the Dallas / Fort Worth ( Dallas ) (2005 ). In 2008 he placed a large permanent installation for the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.
Halley wrote parallel essays on art and culture. His early essays on post- structuralism, postmodernism and the digital revolution of the 1980s were published together in two books. In 2001 he received the Frank Jewett Mather Award from the College Art Association of the United States for his criticisms. Peter Halley was a co - founder of the index magazine with in-depth interviews with artists and gave this out between 1996 and 2006.
Halley held numerous lectures - including at the Art Institute of Chicago and the American Academy in Rome. He taught at Columbia University, UCLA and the School of Visual Arts. Since 2002, Halley directs the graduate program in painting and graphic Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut.