Matthew Barney
Biography
Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco in 1967; at age six, he moved to Idaho with his family. After his parents divorced, Barney continued to live with his father in Idaho, playing football on his high school team, and visiting his mother in New York City, where he was introduced to art and museums. This intermingling of sports and art informs his work as a sculptor and filmmaker. After graduating from Yale in 1991, Barney entered the art world to almost instant controversy and success.
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Acting History
2023
Secondary as Ken Stabler
2019Redoubt as Engraver
2014River of Fundament as The Ka of Norman / Osiris: James Lee Byers
2010Drawing Restraint 17
2006Matthew Barney: No Restraint as Self
2006DRAWING RESTRAINT 13: Instrument of Surrender as Douglas MacArthur
2006Drawing Restraint 9 as Occidental Guest
2004The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney as Himself
2002Cremaster 3 as The Entered Apprentice
2002The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle as Himself
1999Cremaster 2 as Gary Gilmore
1997Cremaster 5 as Diva / Giant / Magician
1995Cremaster 4 as The Loughton Candidate
1995Matthew Barney: Creating Stories as Himself
1991Blind Perineum as Himself
1991Mile High Threshold: Flight with the Anal Sadistic Warrior
—Redoubt as Engraver