Peter Halley

b. 1953, USA
Lives and works in New York, USA 

New York based painter Peter Halley is a contemporary American artist who is widely known for his geometric, neon Day-Glo paintings. He is considered a central figure of the Neo-Conceptualist movement of the 1980s, which originated from a group of artists exhibiting in New York's East Village. 

Halley's paintings merge geometric abstraction with digital and urban landscapes, as he ponders social space from both a psychological and physical perspective. His hard-edged compositions of horizontal and vertical divisions focus on motifs of prison cells, barred windows, and the grid structure of city environments; they offer a sociological exploration of the isolation experienced in contemporary life, with its increasingly complex networks and systems.

Halley has exhibited internationally throughout his career, including large-scale public installations across Europe and the United States. He is also a published writer and was the founder and publisher of Index Magazine in the 1990s.