Peter Halley is a painter and printmaker born in New York in 1953.

Associated with the Minimalist, Neo-Geo, and Neo-Conceptualist movements, he is best known for his brightly colored geometric abstractions, which he started painting in the 1980s and which he calls “prisons” and “cells”.

Halley's paintings explore both physical and psychological structures of social space. He combines the hermetic language of geometric abstraction with the realities of urban space and the digital landscape. His prisons and cells,  painted with fluorescent Day-Glo acrylics and Roll-a-Tex textured paint, are often connected by pipes. These shapes represent the division of space in a modern urban environment.

Halleys paintings have been exhibited at the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art in Japan, the Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld, Germany, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

“ What really specifically interests me is that the use of color can be transgressive. I find it exciting if I can make some awkward color or combination of color work. „

—Peter Halley