Jeffrey Halstead
Bio: Jeffrey Halstead (b. Pickering, Canada, 1984) is a multidisciplinary artist who works in physical installation, photogrammetry, computer animation, 3D modeling, and printed matter. Halstead has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, including solo and group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, and Venice. Halstead holds an M.Arch (‘14) from the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He graduated with distinction, was awarded the Frank Gehry prize for best graduate thesis and received the Alpha-Rho-Chi medal. Halstead worked with architect Frank Gehry on residential and institutional projects. He is a MacDowell Fellow and an Art Omi Resident. Halstead is an MFA (Visual Arts ‘23) candidate at Columbia University.
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Instagram: @jeff.obj
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Halstead explores how computer simulations can challenge conventional architecture's embedded (or inherited) power structures through video-projected spatial installations. His installations are site-specific and oscillate between digital and physical spaces. He constructs with off- the-shelf materials (e.g., sheetrock fastened to metal framing) and pairs them with animation sequences and artificial lighting. He is interested in uncovering covert malign conditions in the overlays of algorithmic practices housed in austere and banal everyday interiors.
Section of the Whitney Sixth Floor Gallery Wall, sheetrock, way-finding signage (3 min., looped, pictograms, two displays, and computer parts; single-channel video projection, color, first contact vinyl (floor to wall), Whitney / Lenfest, 2023); Unspecified Address, 578–590 Madison Ave.,2023 (3 min., looped, LED lighting, and multi-channel video projection; Archival shelf, scaled reproduction of IBM SSEC interior (1948))
First Year Exhibition
Caravan (24” x 72”, Duratrans backlit film in lightbox, 2021)
