- Date of Birth: 25 March, 1967
- Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States
- Biography: Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American artist who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. His early works were sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002 he created the Cremaster Cycle, a series of five feature-length films described by Jonathan Jones in The... Read more
Filmography
- Destricted (2006)
- Drawing Restraint 9 (2006)
- Cremaster 2 (2005)
- Cremaster 1 (2005)
- Cremaster 3 (2003)
- Cremaster 5 (1997)
- Cremaster 4 (1995)
News
The Goodyear blimp, Norman Mailer as Harry Houdini and sex bomb Ursula Andress as "Queen of Chain." This image list may suggest Hollywood at its most crass, but it is in fact part of the decade-spanning Cremaster Cycle. ... Full Article
And you did say . . . Detroit?
philly.com –
2009-03-15
Recently, at a dinner party, a friend mentioned that he'd never seen so many outsiders moving into town. This struck me as a highly suspect statement. ... Full Article
The museum's Pipilotti Rist show cheekily feminizes a bastion of masculinity.
nymag.com –
2008-12-28
T he deliciously named Swiss miss Pipilotti Rist, who for two decades has been ravishing viewers with her fiesta-colored video visions, has risen to new heights of trippy bliss. ... Full Article
Inuit intuition
chicagoreader.com –
2008-11-26
Few musical traditions are more peculiar and compelling than the katajjaq throat singing of the Inuit , a 25,000-strong native population concentrated in Canada's Nunavut territory. ... Full Article
Comparing Yale Student Aliza Shvarts' Abortion Art Project to Other Controversial Art
associatedcontent.com –
2008-04-21
What it Is, and How it Stacks Up to Other Controversial WorksAccording to The Yale Daily News, senior and Art major Aliza Shvarts goal in creating her senior art project was to "spark conversation and debate." In that, Ms. ... Full Article


Helen & Matthew Barney's wedding
Matthew Barney Interlude
Matthew Barney Regis Dialogue with Richard Flood
Batman eating Santa Claus a la Matthew Barney in Creamaster