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Selected Works240

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Previous Sales 169

Sotheby's
Powers Junction
Powers Junction, 1990
Unknown
Apr 2026
Sotheby's
Feedback
Feedback, 2019
$85,000
Feb 2025
Sotheby's
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network , 1997
Withdrawn
Oct 2024
Sotheby's
Untitled (12.17.15.1)
Untitled (12.17.15.1), 2016
$5,000
Oct 2024
Sotheby's
Choice of Screens
Choice of Screens, 2003
€130,000 ($143k USD)
Dec 2023
Christie's
Two Horizontal Prisons
Two Horizontal Prisons, 2005
€75,600 ($83k USD)
Dec 2023
Sotheby's
Vermillion Sands
Vermillion Sands, 1996
$70,000
Sep 2023
Sotheby's
Untitled (1/8/96.4)
Untitled (1/8/96.4), 1996
$4,500
Sep 2023
Christie's
Local Loop
Local Loop, 2007
€107,100 ($118k USD)
Jun 2023
Christie's
Yellow Prison
Yellow Prison, 2002
€88,200 ($97k USD)
Jun 2023
Sotheby's
Blue Cell
Blue Cell , 1998
€55,000 ($77k USD)
Mar 2023
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled , 2001
€6,000 ($8k USD)
Mar 2023
Sotheby's
Eulogy
Eulogy, 2004
$165,100
Mar 2023
Sotheby's
Exception
Exception, 1997
$75,000
Dec 2022
Sotheby's
Discursion
Discursion
£55,000 ($91k USD)
Sep 2022
Christie's
Black Cell with Conduit
Black Cell with Conduit, 1986
$378,000
May 2022
Sotheby's
Theory of Flight
Theory of Flight
£110,000 ($183k USD)
Apr 2022
Sotheby's
Green Prison
Green Prison
€55,000 ($61k USD)
Nov 2021
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled
$12,000
Jul 2021
Christie's
Maroon Prison
Maroon Prison, 2008
£47,500 ($63k USD)
Jul 2021
Sotheby's
Black Prison Above Yellow Prison
Black Prison Above Yellow Prison, 2006
€50,000 ($69k USD)
Jun 2021
Christie's
Prison with Underground Conduit
Prison with Underground Conduit, 1986
£162,500 ($215k USD)
Mar 2021
Sotheby's
Condemned
Condemned
Unknown
Nov 2020
Christie's
Untitled (2.22.18.2)
Untitled (2.22.18.2), 2018
$16,250
Oct 2020
Christie's
Special Project
Special Project, 2000
£55,000 ($73k USD)
Feb 2020

For Sale 7

Weng Contemporary · Artsper
Blue, Nine Times
Blue, Nine Times
$14,565
Sculpture
Ze-Arts Worldwide Galleries · Artsper
Color, Nine Times
Color, Nine Times
$22,500
Painting
Weng Contemporary · Artsper
Red, Nine Times
Red, Nine Times
$14,565
Sculpture
JRP Editions · Artsy
Mirror, Mirror
Mirror, Mirror, 2025
Price on request
Screenprint and UV ink on glass mirror with a custom walnut frame designed by the artist.
Weng Contemporary (ArtXX AG) · 1stDibs
Color, Red, Blue - Nine Times (Set of 3) by Peter Halley, 2023
Color, Red, Blue - Nine Times (Set of 3) by Peter Halley, 2023
$38,481
Weng Contemporary (ArtXX AG) · 1stDibs
Color, Nine Times Pigment Print, Fluorescent Acrylic, Signed, 2023
Color, Nine Times Pigment Print, Fluorescent Acrylic, Signed, 2023
$13,587
Weng Contemporary (ArtXX AG) · 1stDibs
Blue, Nine Times Print, Acrylic on Aluminium, Signed, Edition of 35
Blue, Nine Times Print, Acrylic on Aluminium, Signed, Edition of 35
$18,528
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Market580 auction results

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$2.2K – $457K
148 of 167 paintings lots with prices
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$95.4K
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$88.9K
148 priced paintings lots
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Feb 2026 · $38.1K
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Paintings: $88.9K medianWorks on paper: $3.0K medianSculpture/objects: $69.3K medianEditioned prints: $1.7K medianUnclassified lots: $2.0K medianBooks/portfolios: $1.8K medianPosters/ephemera: $97.8K median
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Galleries6

#4 Pace
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#9 Almine Rech
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#38 Karma
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#96 Berggruen Gallery
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#276 Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska
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#958 The Greenberg Gallery
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Podcast Interviews2

podcasts Peter Halley - Season 15 - Episode 5 Talk Art · Dec 9, 2022
We meet leading artist Peter Halley from his studio in NYC! Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Peter Halley’s paintings and extensive writings about the ever-growing digitisation of cultural, artistic, and social life estab…
 podcasts Keltie Ferris and Peter Halley on the Mysterious Joys of Making a Painting The Art Angle · Sep 16, 2021
Artists Peter Halley and Keltie Ferris first met sometime in the mid-2000s, at the height of the abstract painting revival. Halley, a pioneering Neo-Conceptualist renowned for his disciplined grids, was head of painting …
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Education2

University New Orleans
Yale School of Art
New Haven, CT, USA
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Publications3

Monograph 2

Peter Halley Conduits: Paintings from the 1980s Author
Hatje Cantz · 2023
Wolfgang Tillmans Author
Phaidon Press

Group Catalog 1

Andy Warhol - Cars Business Art
Hatje Cantz · 2002
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Current Exhibitions1

#164 Ceysson & Bénétière

Peter Halley

Peter Halley

Cura Ginza, 8F, 5-chōme-12-6 Ginza, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan

May 28, 2026 — Aug 22, 2026

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Wrapped for Travel: On "The American Connection" by Peter Halley and "Black Painter, White Figuration" by Maxwell Alexandre
Two simultaneous exhibitions at Almeida & Dale in São Paulo present contrasting visions: American artist Peter Halley's "The American Connection," cur…
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Peter Halley - Jablonka Gallery, Koln vintage poster (Hand Signed by Peter Halley) , 1988
A rare 1988 vintage silkscreen exhibition poster by Peter Halley, published for his show at Jablonka Galerie in Cologne, has surfaced on the secondary…
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The Cartier Foundation inaugurated its new Paris headquarters on October 25 with the exhibition "Exposition Générale." The curatorial approach and, mo…
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Peter Halley Continues to Probe the ‘Crisis in Geometry’
American artist Peter Halley is presenting his first solo show in Austria in two decades at Galerie Nikolus Ruzicska in Salzburg. The exhibition, titl…
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Mary Boone Stages a Triumphant Return With the Art Titans of 1980s New York
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Past Exhibitions30

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#276 Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska

Peter Halley Six Paintings for Salzburg

Peter Halley

Faistauergasse 12

Mar 28, 2026 — Apr 29, 2026

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#9 Almine Rech

Peter Halley Recent Paintings

Peter Halley

20 Av. de la Costa, 98000 Monaco

Jan 28, 2026 — Apr 3, 2026

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#96 Berggruen Gallery

Peter Halley

Peter Halley

10 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

Jan 16, 2025 — Feb 27, 2025

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#7,092 Noire Gallery

BLUE PRISON

PETER HALLEY

via Gaudenzio Ferrari 5

Nov 1, 2024 — Jan 30, 2025

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#160 MARUANI MERCIER GALLERY

Black Light

Peter Halley

Sep 7, 2023 — Oct 21, 2023

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Craig F. Starr Gallery

Peter Halley Paintings and Drawings 1980-81

Peter Halley

5 E 73rd St, New York, NY 10021, USA

Apr 27, 2023 — Jun 17, 2023

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#160 MARUANI MERCIER GALLERY

The 80s

Peter Halley

Mar 23, 2023 — Apr 12, 2023

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#160 MARUANI MERCIER GALLERY

Early Works

Peter Halley

Mar 22, 2023 — Apr 15, 2023

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Mudam

Peter Halley

Peter Halley

3 Park Drai Eechelen, 1499 Clausen Luxembourg

Jan 1, 2023

Peter HalleyConduits: Paintings from the 1980s 31.03 – 15.10.2023

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#65 Patricia Low Contemporary

Peter Halley

Peter Halley

Dec 27, 2021 — Feb 12, 2022

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#4,227 Galerie Retelet

Peter Halley Paintings 2000-2018

Peter Halley

7 Boulevard des Moulins

Sep 24, 2020 — Dec 3, 2020

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#160 MARUANI MERCIER GALLERY

New Paintings

Peter Halley

Sep 6, 2018 — Oct 31, 2018

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#4,109 Kuragin & Arutunyan Gallery

Peter Halley

Peter Halley

Lavrushinsky Ln, 10, Moskva, Russia, 119017

Jun 23, 2017 — Sep 10, 2017

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#38 Karma

Peter Halley Boats Crosses Trees Figures Gouaches 1977–78

Peter Halley

188 E 2nd St, New York, NY 10009, United States

Mar 1, 2017 — Mar 31, 2017

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#160 MARUANI MERCIER GALLERY

PETER HALLEY

Peter Halley

Mar 26, 2016 — Apr 28, 2016

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Geometry of the Absurd: Recent Paintings by Peter Halley

Peter Halley

1130 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA

Jan 1, 2016

Geometry of the Absurd: Recent Paintings by Peter Halley Through March 6, 2016 Using distinctive materials including Day-Glo acrylics and Roll-a-Tex, Peter H...

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Geometry of the Absurd: Recent Paintings by Peter Halley

Peter Halley

1130 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA

Nov 8, 2015 — Feb 21, 2016

Geometry of the Absurd: Recent Paintings by Peter Halley November 8, 2015 - February 21, 2016 Using distinctive materials including Day-Glo acrylics and Roll...

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#926 Custot Gallery Dubai

Peter Halley Paintings 2012–2013

Peter Halley

Alserkal Avenue | Unit No. 84 Street 6A, Al Quoz 1

Apr 11, 2013 — May 3, 2013

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#926 Custot Gallery Dubai

Peter Halley New Work

Peter Halley

Alserkal Avenue | Unit No. 84 Street 6A, Al Quoz 1

Jun 3, 2009 — Jun 27, 2009

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#10 Thaddaeus Ropac

Peter Halley Monotypes

Peter Halley

Mirabellplatz 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Apr 26, 2008 — May 25, 2008

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#926 Custot Gallery Dubai

Peter Halley

Peter Halley

Alserkal Avenue | Unit No. 84 Street 6A, Al Quoz 1

Jun 1, 2007 — Jun 30, 2007

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#1,482 McClain Gallery

PETER HALLEY New Paintings

2242 Richmond Ave, Houston, TX 77098, USA

Mar 15, 2007 — Apr 15, 2007

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#10 Thaddaeus Ropac

Conspiracy Theory

Peter Halley

7 Rue Debelleyme, 75003 Paris, France

Jan 17, 2004 — Feb 28, 2004

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#157 Rhona Hoffman Gallery

Peter Halley Drawings, 1991-1995

Peter Halley

Jul 8, 1995 — Aug 31, 1995

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#958 The Greenberg Gallery

Peter Halley Drawings 1991 - 1995

Peter Halley

230 S Bemiston Ave, St. Louis, MO 63105, USA

Mar 28, 1995 — Jun 26, 1995

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#157 Rhona Hoffman Gallery

Peter Halley

Peter Halley

May 3, 1991 — May 25, 1991

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#157 Rhona Hoffman Gallery

Peter Halley New Paintings

Peter Halley

Mar 25, 1988 — Apr 23, 1988

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Florence Griswold Museum

Peter Halley: Big Paintings

Peter Halley

96 Lyme St, Old Lyme, CT 06371, USA

May 31, 2015

Peter Halley — February 6 – May 31, 2015

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#54 Modern Art

Peter Halley

Peter Halley

Place de l’Alma

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#54 Modern Art

Paintings from the 1980s

Peter Halley

Place de l’Alma

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Art Fair Appearances12

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ARCOmadrid — Madrid
2026
Art Basel Hong Kong — Hong Kong
2026
TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht
2026
ARCOmadrid — Madrid
2024
EXPO CHICAGO — Chicago
2024
TEFAF New York — New York
2023
Miart — Milan
2021
Untitled: Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2020
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2019
The Armory Show — New York
2019
EXPO CHICAGO — Chicago
2016
Frieze London — London
2016
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Recent Activity20

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Paintings from the 1980s
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Exhibition
Peter Halley
May 28, 2026
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Bruno Bischofberger, gallerist to Warhol and Basquiat, 1940–2026
May 11, 2026
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È morto Bruno Bischofberger, il gallerista e collezionista svizzero che fece lavorare assieme Warhol e Basquiat
May 10, 2026
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Wrapped for Travel: On "The American Connection" by Peter Halley and "Black Painter, White Figuration" by Maxwell Alexandre
May 4, 2026
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Post-War & Contemporary Art
May 4, 2026
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Max Mara will stage next cruise show in Shanghai’s Long Museum West Bund - FashionNetwork
Apr 23, 2026
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Peter Halley - Jablonka Gallery, Koln vintage poster (Hand Signed by Peter Halley) , 1988
Apr 20, 2026
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Shopping experience: com’è cambiato il modo di vivere il lusso?
Apr 19, 2026
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FUNDACIÓN CARTIER. UNA DELGADA LÍNEA ENTRE EXTRACTIVISMO Y REIVINDICACIÓN CULTURAL
Mar 29, 2026
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Exhibition
Peter Halley Six Paintings for Salzburg
Mar 28, 2026
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Art Fair
Art Basel Hong Kong 2026
Mar 27, 2026
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Peter Halley Continues to Probe the ‘Crisis in Geometry’
Mar 19, 2026
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Art Fair
TEFAF Maastricht 2026
Mar 14, 2026
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art harrison kinnane smith emmelines
Mar 11, 2026
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Art Fair
ARCOmadrid 2026
Mar 4, 2026
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Peter Halley Recent Paintings
Jan 28, 2026
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Nov 3, 2025
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