MARUANI MERCIER

Overview

For thirty-five years, Peter Halley’s paintings have been engaged in a play of relationships between what he calls “conduits”, “prisons,” and “cells” – icons that re ect the increasing geometrization of social space in the world in which we live.

Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery is proud to present Peter Halley's 6th solo show.

For thirty-five years, Peter Halley’s paintings have been engaged in a play of relationships between what he calls “conduits”, “prisons,” and “cells” – icons that re ect the increasing geometrization of social space in the world in which we live.

Halley has had solo exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Stedelijk Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His works are included in major international collections such as the Tate Modern, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Staedel Museum. Until 2011, Halley served as the Director of Graduate Studies in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale University School of Art.

During the last three years, no less than ve public institutions have honored Peter with exhibitions: the Florence Griswold Museum (USA), the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (USA), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena (Germany), Musée d’art moderne et contemporain Saint-Etienne Métropole, and the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt.