Peter Halley (born 1953, New York) chose geometric abstraction as his starting point, as it was one of the elements that inspired him during his student years is Islamic art. In the works carried out by the artist in the late 1970s, Islamic elements come to the core. Halley expresses his works in these years with these words: "The currents I was interested in at that time rejected Western European art and the industrialized model of culture, and viewed non-Western, non-paternalistic resources as a basis for creating a cultural morality."

In 2000, a simplification begins to appear in Halley's works. Cells that changed shape, color and location on the canvas in the previous period no longer need circuits to communicate with each other. In the color palette, Day-Glo and pastel colors reappear.

Peter Halley's works are featured in both private and public collections across the globe, as well as in prominent museums. Key museum collections holding his works include the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Museum in London, Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) in Los Angeles, Rubell Family Museum in Miami, and the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux (CaPC).