Peter Hay Halpert
Peter Hay Halpert
Peter Hay Halpert is a private art dealer, collector, author, and curator, based in Vail, Colorado, following 30+ years in NYC.
For more than 40 years, Halpert has specialised in contemporary artists working with photography–notably, representing Ryan McGinley, the youngest artist ever to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum. The Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, ICP, the Whitney, the Guggenheim, the Getty, the MFA, Boston, SF MoMA, the MFA, Houston, the Centre Canadien d’Architecture, the Tate, and the Victoria & Albert Museum all collect work by his artists.
In 2023 he curated the exhibition “Holding Space: Community Portraits 2020-2022 – Photographs by Stas Ginzburg,” which was exhibited in Vail. In 2024 he organised the exhibition “Ron Diorio: Better Days” also in Vail.
He has written more than 800 articles as Contributing Editor of AMERICAN PHOTO, Columnist for THE ARTNEWSPAPER, Columnist for PHOTOGRAPH, as well as for APERTURE, ART & AUCTION, ARTNEWS, ART & ANTIQUES, and THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE. He is an expert on the photographs of Hiroshi Sugimoto, having authored Motion Picture, contributed an essay to a retrospective catalogue of Sugimoto’s work, and a piece on Sugimoto for Moving Images: Film and Reflection in the Arts. In addition, he has written articles on Andy Warhol’s Polaroid photographs, David Hockney’s interest in photo-based technology; and the role of photography in Francis Bacon’s paintings.
He has been a professor at SVA and ICP, and a lecturer at Trinity College and the University of Pennsylvania. He has spoken at universities and museums around the world, including the Whitney, the High Museum of Art, and the Royal College of Art. During the
Last year he has presented his lecture “Ten Pictures: A History of Photography” in San Francisco, NY, Boulder, and Vail.
His family has been in Vail since the town’s earliest days in the 60s; for several years now, he has served as a Mountain Host, a division of the National Ski Patrol, on Vail Mountain.
