Matthew Barney

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.

Known For

River of Fundament

Cremaster 3

Drawing Restraint 9

Cremaster 2

Cremaster 5

Cremaster 4

Matthew Barney: No Restraint

DRAWING RESTRAINT 13: Instrument of Surrender

All Movies (18)

• Secondary2023 · as Ken Stabler
• Redoubt2019 · as Engraver
• River of Fundament2014 · as The Ka of Norman / Osiris: James Lee Byers
• Drawing Restraint 172010
• Matthew Barney: No Restraint2006 · as Self
• DRAWING RESTRAINT 13: Instrument of Surrender2006 · as Douglas MacArthur
• Drawing Restraint 92006 · as Occidental Guest
• The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney2004 · as Himself
• The Cremaster Cycle2003
• Cremaster 32002 · as The Entered Apprentice
• The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle2002 · as Himself
• Cremaster 21999 · as Gary Gilmore
• Cremaster 51997 · as Diva / Giant / Magician
• Cremaster 41995 · as The Loughton Candidate
• Matthew Barney: Creating Stories1995 · as Himself
• Blind Perineum1991 · as Himself
• Mile High Threshold: Flight with the Anal Sadistic Warrior1991
• Redoubt— · as Engraver