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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.
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13 October 1999
CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins.
16 June 2024
Executed, filmed and presented in Gladstone’s 21st Street gallery, the work is performed as a duet between dancer Raphael Xavier (SECONDARY’s Jack Tatum) and Barney (as quarterback Ken Stabler).
07 November 2024
Alex Katz paints a picture to feature in his exhibition with Matthew Barney, The Bitch.
16 November 1988
Goo, orifice fixation, medical procedures, non-human/inanimate entities considered as bodies. Scabaction records the welding of a sculpture, some antics with Vaseline, and the removal of an ingrown hair.
28 February 2004
For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures.
16 May 2006
Commissioned as part of the Destricted Short Film Series, 'Hoist' was shot in Bahia, Salvador. It's described by the director as "a juxtaposition of sexuality and industrial machinery".
15 September 2006
A compilation of erotic films intended to illuminate the points where art meets sexuality.
01 January 1991
Matthew Barney, in a harness suspended from the ceiling, leaps around a room and lowers himself onto gobs of petroleum jelly.
12 June 2022
In September 2021, Barney and Bepler presented a live performance at Schaulager titled ‘Catasterism in Three Movements.
20 December 2006
How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel and traditional Japanese rituals to create his latest art project? Barney plowed the waters off the coast of Nagasaki to film his massive endeavor, Drawing Restraint 9.
14 February 2004
An ordinary family goes on a trip by car, but their car breaks down. The dutiful father of the family immediately sets off to get help and seems to find it with a nice elderly lady.
16 March 2017
Esoteric rituals are enacted within the vicinity of a Dunkin' Donuts—itself housed in a shopping center—located in Reykjavík, Iceland, wherein Nammu, Sumerian goddess of creation, is found to be an employee.
01 January 2009
The first collaboration between Matthew Barney & Elizabeth Peyton, Blood of Two is a unique, site-specific work that draws its references from Hydra itself – the surrounding environment, animals, humans, and local traditions are all part of the project in equal measure.
01 January 1991
Hesitation to recover a dropped pearl results in a delay-of-game penalty play.
31 May 1995
Filmmaker Aryan Kaganof goes behind the scenes of Matthew Barney's impossible to find short "March of the Anal Sadistic Warrior (1998).
13 September 2015
Presented as part of the exhibition "RIVER OF FUNDAMENT", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
19 October 1991
One of two videos shown in Barney's installation piece "REPRESSIA (decline)"
12 February 2014
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings.
01 March 2019
The goddess Diana and her two attendants traverse the rugged terrain of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains in pursuit of the elusive wolf.
15 May 2002
CREMASTER 3 is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence.
11 February 2006
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.
31 December 2010
The latest installment in the monumental Drawing Restraint series, which merges sculpture, athleticism and cryptic symbolism into a stunning meditation on art-making and physical exertion.
24 October 1997
CREMASTER 5 is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, it represents the moment when the testicles are finally released and sexual differentiation is fully attained.
19 October 1991
A "video action" in which Barney crosses the ceiling of the Gladstone Gallery using a harness and ice-climbing screws, propelling himself by the forces of muscle and will.
17 January 1996
CREMASTER 1 is a musical revue performed on the blue Astroturf playing field of Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho - Matthew Barney's hometown.
06 October 1995
CREMASTER 4 adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward descension despite its resistance to division.
25 April 2003
The Cremaster Cycle is a series of five feature-length films, together with related sculptures, photographs, drawings, and artist's books, created by American visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney.
21 March 2006
American WWII soldiers open a mold, exposing a solid architectural structure made entirely of petroleum jelly.
12 May 2023
Secondary maps two different narratives onto each other, using movement as the formal through-line. The first describes the complex overlay of violence and spectacle inherent in American football, and more broadly within American culture.
01 January 1988
Black and white video Mathew Barney early work
15 March 2002
With the five-part Cremaster Cycle of films, multi-award-winning artist Matthew Barney invented a densely layered and interconnected sculptural world that surreally combines sports, biology, sexuality, history, and mythology as it organically evolves.
10 June 1997
A video installation in which Satyrs grapple in a limousine as it drives through the tunnels of New York City.
