Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco, California, United States on March 25th, 1967 and is the Multimedia Artist. At the age of 57, Matthew Barney biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American contemporary artist and filmmaker whose work investigates intertwining links between geography, biology, photography, and drawing, as well as themes of conflict and tragedy.
His early works were sculptures mixed with performance and video.
He created The Cremaster Cycle, a series of five films referred to by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as "one of the most innovative and brilliant achievements in avant-garde cinema history." He is also known for Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) and River of Fundament (2014), as well as his friendship with Icelandic musician Björk.
Life and career
Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco, California, where he lived until he was 7. He lived in Boise, Idaho, from 1973 to 1985, where his father worked as an assistant at Boise State University and where he attended elementary, middle, and high school. His parents divorced and his mother, an abstract painter, moved to New York City, where he would often visit. It was here that he was first introduced to the art scene.
Barney was recruited by Yale University in 1985 to play football and intended to enroll in pre-med, but he also wanted to study art. He graduated from Yale in 1989. At Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium, his earliest works, which were created at Yale, were staged. Barney moved to New York in the 1990s, where he worked as a catalog model, which helped him finance his early work as an artist. Barney had a daughter with his then partner, Björk, with whom he lived in a penthouse co-op in Brooklyn Heights in 2002. Barney and Björk were no longer a couple by September 2013, but Björk chronicled the breakup in her 2015 album Vulnicura.
Barney owned a Long Island City, Queens, as of 2014.
Awards and prizes
- Europa 2000 Prize, Aperto '93, 45th Venice Biennale, 1993.
- Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum, 1996.
- James D. Phelan Art Award in Video, Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco Foundation, 1999.
- Glen Dimplex Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2002.
- Kaiser Ring Award, Museum für moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany, 2007.
- Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award, 54th San Francisco International Film Festival, 2011.