Matthew Barney Color Photography
American, b. 1967
Matthew Barney (b. 1967, San Francisco, California) Matthew Barney is a pioneering American contemporary artist known for his groundbreaking work across sculpture, performance, film, and installation. After studying at Yale University (B.A., 1989), Barney quickly rose to international prominence in the 1990s for his physically demanding performances and highly symbolic, multimedia environments that explore themes of transformation, mythology, sexuality, and identity.
He is best known for The Cremaster Cycle (1994–2002), a five-part film project that fuses cinema, sculpture, drawing, and installation into a total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk), widely regarded as one of the most ambitious and original bodies of work in contemporary art. His films are marked by surreal narratives, elaborate prosthetics, and a highly stylized visual language rooted in biology, sports, mysticism, and ritual.
Barney’s work defies easy categorization and often requires interdisciplinary engagement. Drawing as much from Joseph Beuys and Richard Serra as from bodybuilding, medical science, and classical opera, Barney constructs alternate mythologies that are both personal and universal.
Major solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, among others. His films have been screened in prestigious venues such as the Cannes Film Festival and the Whitney Museum.
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Artist: Matthew Barney
Drawing Restraint 9: Toya
By Matthew Barney
Located in New York, NY
Matthew Barney
Drawing Restraint 9: Toya, 2006
C-print in self-lubricating plastic frame
26 x 22 x 1 1/4 inches (frame)
Edition 18 of 25, with 5
Signed and stamped verso
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Matthew Barney Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Previously Available Items
Cremaster 4: manual A
By Matthew Barney
Located in New York, NY
Video still, prosthetic plastic frame (Edition of 10)
Signed and dated in black ink, verso
Numbered on label, verso
Matthew Barney is a highly influential contemporary artist livin...
Category
1990s Contemporary Matthew Barney Color Photography
Materials
Plastic, Color
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