Peter Halley, Director, Painting/ Printmaking
Webpage: www.peterhalley.com

Mr. Halley received a B.A. in 1975 from Yale University and an M.F.A. in painting from University of New Orleans in 1978. Since 1980 he has lived and worked in New York City. He has had solo exhibitions of his paintings at the Stedeljik Museum in Amsterdam, the Reina Sofia Museo Nacional Centro Arte in Madrid, the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Bordeaux, the Kitakyushu Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan, the Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany, the Des Moines Art Center, and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. In 1997 the Museum of Modern Art also presented an exhibition of his work in printmaking. His paintings are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Since 1995 Mr. Halley has combined his paintings with wall-sized digital prints as full-scale installations. He has previously taught at Columbia University and UCLA. In 2000 he received the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism. From 1996 to 2005 he was the publisher of index magazine. He was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1999 and is currently professor (adjunct) and director of graduate studies in painting/printmaking.