Jeffrey Halstead
Jeffrey Halstead works through architecture, moving image, and digital fabrication to explore how technologies of vision produce both space and absence. His installations operate as perceptual feedback loops—rooms that watch themselves, screens that remember their own light. Within these environments, surfaces shimmer between solidity and transmission, turning material into signal, presence into residue. Halstead’s practice traces the after-images of the digital condition: the moment when a space begins to dream of its own recording.
His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Lenfest Center for the Arts (New York), the A+D Museum (Los Angeles), and the SID Gallery (Toronto). He holds an MFA in Expanded Practice from Columbia University and an M.Arch from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, and has been supported by MacDowell, Art OMI, and Columbia University.
2024 — Visiting Resident, Digital Technology Laboratory, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON
2023 — MacDowell Residency Fellow (Individual), MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
2022 — MacDowell Residency Fellow (Collaboration), MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
2022 — Viar Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY
2022 — Agnes Martin Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY
2022 — D'Arcy Hayman Scholarship, Columbia University, New York, NY
2022 — Morrocco/Mancini Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY
2021 — MacDowell Residency Fellow (Individual), MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
2021 — Jacques & Natasha Gelman Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY
2020 — Jacques & Natasha Gelman Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY
2020 — Wilder Green Fellowship, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH
2020 — MacDowell Residency Fellow (Virtual MacDowell Pilot), MacDowell, Peterborough, NH
2020 — Art OMI Residency Fellow, Art OMI, Ghent, NY
2014 — Alpha-Rho-Chi Medal Recipient, SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, CA
2014 — Graduation with Distinction, SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, CA
2014 — Thesis Scholarship, The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles, CA
2013–2014 — Graduate Continuing Scholarship, The Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA