Matthew Barney

Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967 in San Francisco, California) is a contemporary media artist working with film, video installations, sculpture, photography and drawing.

Barney spent his youth partially in Idaho, where he regularly played football in his high school team, and partially in New York City with his mother, who introduced him to art and museums. This intermingling of sports and art would inspire his later work as an artist. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1989. He also worked briefly as a model.

The film series The Cremaster Cycle is Barney's best-known work. De Lama Lamina (Of Mud a Blade) [1] premiered in September 2004.

Matthew Barney won the Europa 2000 prize at the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993. In 1996, he was the first recipient of the Hugo Boss Prize, awarded by the Guggenheim Museum. His work also graces the album cover of Arto Lindsay's recording Prize (1999).

He has just released Drawing Restraint 9, a collaboration between himself and Björk.

He and his partner, the Icelandic singer Björk, have one daughter named Isadora who was born October 3, 2002.

Notable works

• (1995) Cremaster 4 at IMDb
• (1996) Cremaster 1 at IMDb
• (1997) Cremaster 5 at IMDb
• (1999) Cremaster 2 at IMDb
• (2002) Cremaster 3 at IMDb
• (2005) Drawing Restraint 9 at IMDb
• (2005) De Lama Lamina at IMDb
• (2006) Destricted at IMDb

External links

• PBS: Matthew Barney
• Matthew Barney at IMDb
• The Cremaster Cycle Web Site
• The Drawing Restraint Web Site
• Barbara Gladstone Gallery
• Guggenheim Cremaster Lessons
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• "Cremaster Fanatic", Conceptual Fan Site -- By Eric Doeringer
• Matthew Barney and Beyond -- analysis of Barney "in terms of power, askesis, impedance, force, and sliminess."