Matthew Barney
Birthday: 1967-03-25
Place of Birth: San Francisco
Biography: Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco in 1967; at age six, he moved to Idaho with his family. After his parents divorced, Barney continued to live with his father in Idaho, playing football on his high school team, and visiting his mother in New York City, where he was introduced to art and museums. This intermingling of sports and art informs his work as a sculptor and filmmaker. After graduating from Yale in 1991, Barney entered the art world to almost instant controversy and success.
Movies
Cremaster 4
CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode ...
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Drawing Restraint 9
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in re...
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Drawing Restraint 17
The latest installment in the monumental Drawing Restraint series, which merges sculpture, athletici...
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Matthew Barney: No Restraint
How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel and tr...
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Secondary
Secondary maps two different narratives onto each other, using movement as the formal through-line. ...
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Redoubt
Redoubt unfolds as a series of hunts in the wilderness of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, led by Diana, ...
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River of Fundament
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of No...
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Cremaster 5
Cremaster 5 is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last...
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DRAWING RESTRAINT 13: Instrument of Surrender
American WWII soldiers open a mold, exposing a solid architectural structure made entirely of petrol...
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The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures...
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Matthew Barney: Creating Stories
Filmmaker Aryan Kaganof goes behind the scenes of Matthew Barney's impossible to find short "March o...
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Mile High Threshold: Flight with the Anal Sadistic Warrior
Matthew Barney, in a harness suspended from the ceiling, leaps around a room and lowers himself onto...
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The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle
With the five-part Cremaster Cycle of films, multi-award-winning artist Matthew Barney invented a de...
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Redoubt
The goddess Diana and her two attendants traverse the rugged terrain of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains i...
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Blind Perineum
A "video action" in which Barney crosses the ceiling of the Gladstone Gallery using a harness and ic...
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Cremaster 3
CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, w...
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Cremaster 2
CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biologi...
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