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, Reina Sofia Museo Nacional Centro Arte in Madrid, Musée d’Art Contemporain in Bordeaux, Kitakyushu Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan, Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany, Des Moines Art Center, and 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, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and 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 and director of graduate studies in painting/printmaking.