Assistant Professor
Jeffrey Halstead is an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. An architect, artist, and educator, he works across architecture, video projection, installation, and computational image making. His research examines how contemporary vision technologies, including projection, AI-enabled surveillance tech, and neural and point-based scene representations, reshape how architecture is produced, perceived, and remembered.
Working across spatial installations, moving images, paintings, printed surfaces, and architectural environments, Halstead treats time as both a medium and a material of architecture. Through projection, scanning, compositing, and computational image construction, he creates feedback loops in which rooms double, surfaces drift, shadows lag, and familiar images return altered by the systems that circulate them. His work is drawn to cultural images that persist beyond their original contexts, accumulating new associations while carrying the residue of earlier desires and imagined futures. Rather than approaching digital media as a vehicle for seamless novelty, his projects attend to repetition, delay, technological failure, and the futures that images continue to promise but never fully deliver.
Halstead’s work frequently engages popular culture, domestic space, and media environments to explore how images construct desire, memory, and systems of control. His recent exhibitions and installations include the solo exhibition *TRAMPOLINE TRAMPOLEEN TRAMPOLIN* at LL Contemporary in Toronto and *The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters*, a projected video installation created for Nuit Blanche Toronto at Old City Hall. Other projects include *Hell Is Other People* at Assembly Gallery in Toronto (2025), *It, Controller* at SID Gallery in Toronto (2024), and *Whitney / Lenfest* at the Lenfest Center for the Arts in New York (2023).
He has taught architecture and design at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, The University of Houston, Toronto Metropolitan University, and SCI-Arc. Before entering academia, he practiced with Gehry Partners. His work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Venice, and elsewhere internationally. He is a three-time fellow of MacDowell and a former resident of Art Omi.
Halstead holds a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University, NY and a Master of Architecture with distinction from the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
EDUCATION
- Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University, NY
- M.Arch with distinction, Southern California Institute of Architecture
