Matthew Barney

Multimedia Artist

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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Date of Birth
March 25, 1967
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, United States
Age
57 years old
Zodiac Sign
Aries
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Artist, Film Actor, Film Director, Film Editor, Film Producer, Painter, Photographer, Screenwriter, Sculptor
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Yale University
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Isadora Bjarkardottir Barney
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Matthew Barney Life

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.

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Matthew Barney Career

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.

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Matthew Barney Awards

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.

Björk looks almost unrecognisable as she continues to push fashion boundaries in nude-illusion dress after three decades of VERY eccentric looks

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 27, 2024
Björk was almost unrecognisable as she made her Vogue debut on the cover of their Scandinavian issue in an incredible nude-illusion dress. The singer, whose name has become synonymous with quirky fashion looks, pushed the boundaries once again in the racy dress - complete with pubic wig. One of Björk's most memorable looks was a swan dress which she wore to the 2001 Academy Awards, which had the bird's neck wound around her own.

ADRIAN THRILLS: Even after all these years, it's still amazing (but very brilliant) but it has to be Bjork

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 7, 2022
ADRIAN THRILLS: Maybe Björk will sell an album that would fill dancefloors like Madonna, or give Harry Styles a run for his money in stadium-pleasing bangers. She may even have a few songs you can sing in the shower. Fossora, not that record, is the Icelandic maverick's two most recent launches, Vulnicura and Utopia, had only a fleeting association with traditional verses and choruses, according to a spokesperson. The former was a gloomy break-up album influenced by the end of her friendship with American artist Matthew Barney. The second, a pastoral tale about finding new love, was dominated by flutes. Fossora, the first hearing, isn't for the faint-hearted. It starts with clattering beats and honking clarinets. It features a wordless choral interlude and some tracks that cries out for a good tune.

Bjork reveals artwork for her new album Fossora and announces her first single Atopos

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 24, 2022
In the artwork for her forthcoming album Fossora, which marks the unveiling of her tenth album, Bjork cut a typically eccentric figure in a dramatic green feathered gown. In an Instagram post on Wednesday afternoon, the singer revealed the cover for her latest album and revealed that Atopos would be the first single on her new album. Fossora, the Icelandic artist, has recently announced that she would be following up to her 2017 album Utopia with Fossora, which is scheduled for a fall release.