Peter Halley is a New York artist and the publisher of Index magazine. Exhibiting since the 1980’s, Halley has presented surveys of his work at the CAPC, Bordeaux, France (1991), The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997), and the Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (1998). Halley has also written extensively on art and culture. His writings have been published in Collected Essays 1981-87 (1988) and Recent Essays 1990-1996 (1997). In 2001, he received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism from the College Art Association. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in Painting at the Yale School of Art since 2002.