For over twenty-five years, Peter Halley's geometric paintings have been engaged in a play of relationships between what he calls "prisons" and "cells"—icons that reflect the increasing geometricization of social space in the world in which we live. Halley has also written on art and culture throughout his career. His early essays, which address post-structuralism, post-modernism, and the digital revolution of the 1980s, have been anthologized in two books of collected writings.

Since the mid-1990s, Halley has produced site-specific installations for exhibitions and as permanent public works. These projects have been realized at the State University of New York, Buffalo, the City Library in Usera, Spain, the Banco Suisso d’Italia Art Collection, Turin, and the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas.

Halley has had one-person museum exhibitions at the Capc Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Des Moines Art Center, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, the Museum Folkwang, Essen, and the Butler Institute of American Art. In 2001, he received the Frank Jewett Mather Award from the College Art Association in the U.S. for his critical writing.

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