Peter Halley is a contemporary artist best known for his brightly coloured, geometric paintings made of Roll-a-Tex, a textured paint used for decoration, as well as florescent Day-Glo paints. His motifs refer to barred windows, prison cells, and the conduits and grids composing cities. Halley helped define the Neo-Geo movement alongside Ashley Bickerton and Philip Taaffe, developing themes meant to criticize the utopian vision of avant-garde idealists.

Halley has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions including 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). His 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).

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