Peter Halley

Peter Halley (* 24. September 1953 in New York City , USA ) is an artist who the Abstract Art is assigned.

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Halley received his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1975 and his master's degree from the University of New Orleans in 1978 . He stayed in New Orleans until 1980 and then moved to New York, where he still lives and works today.

Halley first caused a stir in the early 1980s with his geometric paintings in fluorescent colors. For over 25 years, Peter Halley's geometric paintings have played with the relationship between “prison” and “cells”. According to Peter Halley, the pictures thus reflect the increasing geometry of the social space in the world in which we live. His work as an artist is commonly associated with minimalism and neo-conceptual art . Halley is also active as a writer , editor, and lecturer .

Halley's first major exhibition in New York took place in 1985 at International with Monument, an art gallery in New York City's East Village . This was followed by exhibitions in the Mary Boon Gallery, Sonnabend Gallery, Bruno Bischofberger Gallery, Jablonka Gallery, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery and Waddington Galleries. In Germany, Peter Halley is represented by the Thomas Modern gallery in Munich.

The first exhibition, which offered a first large overview of his work, took place 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), the Des Moines Art Center ( Des Moines , Iowa ) (1992), and the Dallas Museum of Art (1995 ), in the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) ( New York City ) (1997), in the Art Museum of the City of Kitakyushu (1998), in the Museum Folkwang ( Essen ) (1998) and in the Butler Institute of American Art ( Youngstown , Ohio ) ( 1999). His work has also been exhibited in galleries in Chicago , London , Madrid, Moscow , New York, Paris , Rome , Seoul and Tokyo . In 2014, Halley's series Prisons , which had been created over decades, was shown in the old tram depot in Jena .

Since the mid-1990s, Halley has created installations that relate to the respective exhibition location or public space - e.g. B. at the State University of New York ( Buffalo ) (2002), Turin (2003) and Dallas / Fort Worth Airport ( Dallas ) (2005). In 2008 he made a large permanent installation for the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University .

Halley also wrote essays on art and culture at the same time . His early essays on post-structuralism , postmodernism and the digital revolution of the 1980s were published in two books . In 2001 he received the Frank Jewett Mather Award from the College Art Association of the United States for his reviews. Peter Halley was co-founder of index magazine with extensive interviews with cultural professionals and published it between 1996 and 2006.

Halley has given numerous lectures - including at the Art Institute of Chicago and the American Academy in Rome . He has taught at Columbia University , UCLA, and the School of Visual Arts . Since 2002, Halley has directed the Graduate School in Painting and Graphics at Yale University School of Art , New Haven , Connecticut .

His work can be found in the Museum of Modern Art , the Tate Gallery and the collection of the Guggenheim Museum .

literature

• Peter Lodermeyer, Karlyn De Jongh, Sarah Gold: Personal Structures: Time Space Existence. DuMont Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8321-9279-2 .
• Peter Halley: Collected Essays. 1981-87. Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, 1988, ISBN 0-932499-68-6 .
• Peter Halley: Recent Essays 1990–1996. Edgewise Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-9646466-1-7 .
• Tilman Baumgärtel: net.art 2.0 - New Materials towards Net art. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2001, ISBN 3-933096-66-9 , pp. 78–87.
• Peter Halley. Prisons. Friedrich Schiller University, Jena 2014, ISBN 978-3-9806431-7-7 .

Web links

• Homepage of Peter Halley
• Homepage of the index magazine
• Yale University School of Art homepage

References and comments

1. ↑ peterhalley.com
2. ↑ Peter Halley at the Thomas Modern gallery ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ These prisons won't let you go. In: FAZ . June 13, 2014, p. 11.
4. ↑ MoMA online catalog  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Peter Halley on the Tate Gallery homepage
6. ↑ Peter Halley on the Guggenheim Collection homepage  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.