Guide to the Peter Halley Press Collection

From Halley’s rise in the mid-1980s to his present career, the press materials include publications like The New York Times, The Village Voice, New Art Examiner, Art in America, and Le Monde.  

Major solo exhibitions represented include 1989’s Peter Halley: Recent Paintings that traveled to Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany, Maison de la culture et de la communication de Saint-Étienne, France, and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Peter Halley Works: 1982 to 1991 that traveled to CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam between 1991-92; Halley’s first U.S. solo exhibition, Paintings 1989–1992, at the Des Moines Art Center in 1992; Peter Halley: New Concepts in Printmaking I at MoMA in 1996; 1998 exhibition Peter Halley: Painting as Sociogram 1981–1997 at Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art in Kitakyushu, Japan; and Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Peter Halley: Present and Past, Baton Rouge, LA in 2005.

Major group exhibitions by Peter Halley covered in the collection include the 1986 exhibition at Sonnabend Gallery Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman; the 1987 Whitney Biennale; Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective (El arte y su doble) at Centre Cultural de la Funcacio Caixa de Pensions, Madrid in 1986.

Press materials also cover exhibitions with frequent exhibitors Galería Javier López, Madrid (2008, 2003, 2000, 1999, 1996), Galerie Xippas (2021, 2018, 2015, 2011, 2005), Mary Boone Gallery (2013, 2010, 2009, 2004, 2002), CAIS Gallery, Seoul (1999, 2005), Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia (2021, 2012, 2008, 2000, 1997), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris and Salzburg (2008, 2007, 2004, 2000, 1997, 1995, 1992), and Waddington Galleries (2013, 2009, 2007, 2001, 1999).

Also covered are the publication of the monograph Peter Halley: Maintain Speed in 1999 and the artist’s theoretical writings in Collected Essays, 1981-87 (published 1988) and Recent Essays, 1990-1996 (published 1997). Journalists and critics including Roberta Smith, Dan Cameron, Roger Green, Gary Indiana, Kay Larson, Olga Spiegel, Philippe Dagen, and Grace Gleuck are represented across multiple articles as chroniclers of Halley’s career and the neo-geo movement at large.

Language of Materials: The press materials contain articles spanning Halley’s international career, with articles primarily in English but also in Korean, French, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Turkish, German and Greek.

Processing information: Collection processed by Matthew Herzog and Brittany Shaw