Peter Halley was born in New York (1953). He studied at Yale University, where he gained his BA (1975), and at the University of New Orleans (MFA, 1978). He returned to New York in 1980, where his first solo exhibition was held at 'International with Monument' (1985). Since then he has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions for instance at the Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany (1989), capc Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux (1991), Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997) and Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan (1998). Installations have been exhibited at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (1995), the University of Buffalo, New York (1997), Museum Folkwang, Essen (1998) and Waddington Galleries (1999, 2001). His published critical writings include two collections of essays from the 1980s and 1990s.