PETER HALLEY
2025-09-29A central figure in post-conceptual painting since the 1980s, Halley continues to explore geometry as a political language – one that reveals and interrogates the material, digital, and psychological structures that shape contemporary life. Halley, founding publisher of the influential Index magazine (1996–2005) and former director of Yale’s esteemed M.F.A. painting program, has moved fluidly across disciplines throughout his career. Whether through painting, writing, teaching, or publishing, he has consistently maintained a critical focus on the intersections of art, technology, and ideology.
Halley’s paintings have long traced the systems – both visible and invisible – that govern our lives. For over four decades, he has worked with a visual lexicon of “cells,” “prisons,” and “conduits,” drawing on the legacy of 20th-century geometric abstraction not to transcend reality, but to analyse its mechanisms of control. Where Minimalism envisioned the grid as a space of aesthetic order, Halley reimagined it as a charged network: wired, surveilled, and embedded within the logics of power.
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to October 8th, 2025
MASSIMODECARLO
16 Clifford Street
W1S 3RG
London
