14 Facts About Matthew Barney

Matthew Barney was born on March 25,1967 and is an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing.

Matthew Barney was born March 25,1967, as the younger of two children in San Francisco, California, where he lived until he was 7.

Matthew Barney lived in Boise, Idaho from 1973 to 1985, where his father got a job administering a catering service at Boise State University and where he attended elementary, middle, and high school.

Matthew Barney's parents divorced and his mother, an abstract painter, moved to New York City, where he would frequently visit.

In 2002, Matthew Barney had a daughter with his then partner, the singer Bjork, with whom he lived in a penthouse co-op in Brooklyn Heights.

Matthew Barney's epic Cremaster cycle is a self-enclosed aesthetic system consisting of five feature-length films that explore processes of creation.

In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Matthew Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer's hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.

Matthew Barney replaced the human body with the body of the 1967 Chrysler Imperial that was the central motif from his earlier film Cremaster 3.

Matthew Barney began producing a new two-hour film, Redoubt, in 2017, which premiered in March 2019.

Matthew Barney was included in many international exhibitions, such as documenta 9 in Kassel ; the 1993 and 1995 Biennial exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Aperto '93 at the 48th Venice Biennale, for which he was awarded the Europa 2000 Prize.

Matthew Barney has had major solo exhibitions organized by Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, Sammlung Goetz in Munich, and Fondazione Merz in Turin.

In 2014, Matthew Barney exhibited "River of Fundament" at Haus der Kunst, Munich.

Matthew Barney's work has provoked strong critical reaction, both positive and negative.

Matthew Barney's work has been compared to performance artists Chris Burden and Vito Acconci, and some critics have argued that Matthew Barney's art is simultaneously a critique and a celebration of commercialism and blockbuster filmmaking.