Matthew Barney

Quick Facts

Full Name	Matthew Barney
Occupation	Multimedia Artist
Date Of Birth	Mar 25, 1967(1967-03-25)
Age	57
Birthplace	San Francisco
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Pisces

Matthew Barney Biography

Matthew Barney is one of the most popular and richest Multimedia Artist who was born on March 25, 1967 in San Francisco, California, United States. Multimedia artist, best known for his avantgarde film series “The Creaster Cycle”. His seven-act opera, “Ancient Evenings,” by Multimedia artist best known for his avant-garde film series “The CREMASTER Cycle.” Also known for his seven-act opera based on “Ancient Evenings” by Norman Mailer. is also well-known.

In 2002, he had a daughter in the same year with singer He had a daughter with singer Bjork in 2002..

Matthew Barney was born March 25, 1967, as the younger of two children in San Francisco, California, where he lived until he was 7. He 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. His parents divorced and his mother, an abstract painter, moved to New York City, where he would frequently visit. It was there where he was first introduced to the art scene.

Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American contemporary artist and director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing, and whose works explore intertwining connections between geography, biology, geology and mythology, as well as themes of conflict and failure. His early pieces were sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002, he created The Cremaster Cycle, a series of five films described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as “one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema.” He is also known for Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) and River of Fundament (2014), as well as his past relationship with Icelandic musician Björk.

He was born in San Francisco, and grew up both in Idaho and New York. His mother, an abstract painter, introduced him to New York’s art scene.

Matthew Barney Net Worth

Matthew Barney is one of the richest Multimedia Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Matthew Barney 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After being recruited to play football, he enrolled at Yale to study pre-med. He also spent a lot of time on art, and graduated in 1989.

His most well-known artistic works were his “Drawing Restraint”, series, and elaborate art-performance pieces.

Barney replaced the human body with the body of the 1967 Chrysler Imperial that was the central motif from his earlier film Cremaster 3. The film’s central scene is an abstraction of Mailer’s wake, set in a replica of the late author’s apartment in Brooklyn Heights and featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Giamatti, Elaine Stritch, Ellen Burstyn, Peter Donald Badalamenti II, Joan La Barbara, and jazz percussionist Milford Graves.

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Who is Matthew Barney Dating?

According to our records, Matthew Barney married to Mary Farley. As of December 1, 2023, Matthew Barney’s is not dating anyone.

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For the season 2000/2001 in the Vienna State Opera Matthew Barney designed a large scale picture (176 sqm) as part of the exhibition series “Safety Curtain”, conceived by museum in progress. “Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle”, an exhibition of artwork from the entire cycle organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, premiered at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, in June 2002 and subsequently traveled to the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. A large-scale exhibition of the entire “Drawing Restraint” series was organized by the 21st Century Museum for Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, in 2005 and traveled to Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Serpentine Gallery, London; and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. Barney has also had major solo exhibitions organized by Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo (2003), Living Art Museum in Reykjavik (2003), Sammlung Goetz in Munich (2007), and Fondazione Merz in Turin (2008). His work has been included in major group exhibitions including “Moving Pictures” at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and Guggenheim Bilbao (2002), Venice Biennale (2003), “Quartet: Barney, Gober, Levine, Walker” at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2005), Biennial of Moving Images at Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine in Paris (2005), and “All in the Present Must Be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys” at Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin (2006). In 2013, the Morgan Library & Museum mounted “Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney”, the first museum retrospective devoted to the artist’s drawings, later traveling to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris.

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Matthew Ranked on the list of most popular Multimedia Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Matthew Barney celebrates birthday on March 25 of every year.

Barney’s work for the 2007 Manchester International Festival received mixed reviews.

Are Björk and Matthew Barney still married?

In 2002, Barney had a daughter with his then partner, the singer Björk, with whom he lived in a penthouse co-op in Brooklyn Heights. By September 2013, Barney and Björk were no longer a couple ; Björk chronicled the breakup in her 2015 album Vulnicura. As of 2014, Barney maintained a studio in Long Island City, Queens.

What did Matthew Barney do?

Matthew Barney, (born March 25, 1967, San Francisco, California, U.S.), American sculptor and video artist whose five-part Cremaster film cycle was praised for its inventiveness. Some art critics considered him one of the most significant artists of his generation.

How did Björk and Matthew Barney meet?

But they did, after meeting while she was in New York promoting “Dancer in the Dark,” and they now live together near Palisades, N.Y., with their young daughter. In person, they are sometimes strikingly different.

How old is Matthew Barney?

55 years (March 25, 1967)

Why did Matthew Barney Sue Björk?

Matthew Barney, the ex-partner of musical goddess Björk, sued the artist in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Wednesday for more “equitable custody” of their 12 -year-old daughter Isadora. Barney claims that Björk is hogging the child, who would really like to spend more time with her dad.