Peter Halley

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Full Name	Peter Halley
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Sep 24, 1953(1953-09-24)
Age	71
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Libra

Peter Halley Biography

Peter Halley is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on September 24, 1953 in New York, United States.

Halley was born and raised in New York City. He is the son of Janice Halley, a registered nurse of Polish ancestry, and Rudolph Halley, an attorney and politician of German-Austrian Jewish descent. In 1951, Rudolph “became an instant celebrity,” as Halley has said, while serving as chief prosecutor for the United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce, also known as the Kefauver Committee (after Senator Estes Kefauver). “This series of hearings with various colorful mobsters was broadcast on television all over the country,” Halley notes. Rudolph was also assistant counsel to the wartime Truman Committee, investigating fraud and waste in defense contracting. He served as president of the New York City Council from 1951 to 1953, and ran for New York City Mayor in 1953. He passed away soon after at the age of forty-three, when Halley was three years old.

Peter Halley (born September 24, 1953) is an American artist and a central figure in the Neo-Conceptualist movement of the 1980s. Known for his Day-Glo geometric paintings, Halley is also a writer, the former publisher of index Magazine, and a teacher; he served as Director of Graduate Studies in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale University School of Art from 2002 to 2011. Halley lives and works in New York City.

Peter Halley Net Worth

Peter Halley is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Halley 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Other notable family members include Rudolph’s first cousin Carl Solomon (1928-1993), to whom Allen Ginsberg dedicated his epic poem “Howl (for Carl Solomon)” in 1955. The Halleys are also related to Samuel Shipman (1884-1937), a well-known and colorful writer of Broadway comedies in the 1920s. Halley’s great aunt and uncle, Rose and A.A. Wyn, published Ace Comics from 1940 to 1956 and Ace Books from 1952 to 1973. Ace Books was an American publisher of science fiction that published William Burroughs’s first novel, Junkie, in 1953, as well as the first novels by several prominent science-fiction writers including Philip K. Dick, Samuel R. Delany, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

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In the 1980s, Halley’s practice and career developed amid the artistic and intellectual discourse that arose in East Village artist-run galleries like International with Monument, Cash/Newhouse, and Nature Morte. These spaces were a community for artists such as Halley, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, Sherrie Levine, Ashley Bickerton, and Richard Prince, who “shared a focus on the role of technology in postmodern society and rejected nature as a touchstone of meaning.” (Bob Nickas, Dan Cameron, and the curatorial team Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo were curators and critics associated with this scene.) These artists used irony and pastiche to subvert and comment upon structural issues of the time; they drew from Conceptual Art to create “paintings and sculptures that operated as a set of pictorial signs referencing artists and moments in postwar art history,” expanding their boundaries as artists to also encompass the theoretical discourse around the art objects themselves.

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In 1980, Halley returned to New York City and moved into a loft on East 7th Street in the East Village, Manhattan; there, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne was his upstairs neighbor. New York City had a lasting influence on Halley’s distinct painting style. He became enamored with the city’s intensity, scale, and three-dimensional urban grid—the “geometricization of space that pervaded the 20th century.” Likewise interested in abstract painting, Halley “set out to connect the language of geometric abstraction to the actual space that he saw all around him, transforming the square—borrowed from Malevich, Albers, and others—into architectural icons he called ‘prisons’ and ‘cells,’ and connecting them by straight lines called ‘conduits.'”

What is Peter Halley known for?

New York–based artist Peter Halley is well known for his writings on culture and art in addition to his systematic paintings. Halley’s abstractions, which he began in the late 1970s, suggest the angular and rigid geometries of structures as diverse as prison cells, computer chips, and electrical conduits.

Is Peter Halley married?

Personal life. Halley is married to the painter Ann Craven. He has two children from a previous marriage.