_Matthew Barney
DOWNLOAD PRINTABLE PDF (104 K)REGEN PROJECTS
MATTHEW BARNEY
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1967 in San Francisco, California.
Lives and works in New York City.
Education/Prizes:
2007 Kaiser Ring Award, Goslarer Museum, Goslar, Germany
1989 B.A., Yale University, CT
1993 "Europa 2000" prize, Aperto 93, XLV Venice Biennale
1996 Hugo Boss Award, Guggenheim Museum, New York
1999 James D. Phelan Art Award in Video, Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco Foundation
2001 Glen Dimplex Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Solo Exhibitions:
2008 "Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint New Sun, " Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria
March 7 – June 7, 2008
"REN: Chrysler," Norwalk, CA, May 18, 2008
2007 "Drawing from Guardian of the Veil," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
December 15, 2007- January 19, 2008
"Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint New Sun," Sadie Coles HQ (Off-site). London, UK,
October 2 – November 17, 2007
"Matthew Barney," Serpentine Gallery, London, UK, September 20 – November 11, 2007
"Matthew Barney," Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany, November 5, 2007 – March 29, 2008
2006 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 23 – September 17, 2006
"Matthew Barney: The Occidental Guest," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, April 7 –
May 13, 2006
"Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint 9 Storyboards," John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz
Bookseller, New York, New York, April 4 – May 4, 2006
2005 "Mathew Barney: Drawing Restraint 9," 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kanazawa, Japan, July 2 – August 25, 2005; travels to Samsung Museum of
Contemporary Art, Soeul, Korea; travels to Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, California, June 23 – September 19, 2006
"Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle," screening at The Theatre Hall, Dunker
Culture Center, Helsingborg, Sweden, January 15 & 16, 2005
2003 "Matthew Barney in the Living Art Museum," Living Art Museum, Reykjavik
"Matthew Barney: Cremaster ," Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, July 19 – October 19, 2003
"Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle," organized by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; travels to Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway, September 13-November 16; Museum Ludwig, Cologne and Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, October 10 - January 5;
2002 World premier of "Cremaster 3: a film by Matthew Barney," May 1, Ziegfeld Theater, New York
1999 "CREMASTER 2: The Drones Exposition," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Art, 2000
1998 "CREMASTER 5," Regen Projects , Los Angeles
"CREMASTER 5," Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
"CREMASTER 1," Offentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Kunstmuseum, Switzerland
1997 Portikus, "CREMASTER 5", Frankfurt
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria
1996 San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco, "Transexualis and REPRESSIA", "CREMASTER 1 and CREMASTER 4"
1995 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
The Tate Gallery, London, England
Cartier Foundation, Paris, France
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland
"PACE CAR for the HUBRIS PILL," traveling to CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux and Kunsthalle Bern, 1996
1994 Regen Projects, Los Angeles, "Portraits from CREMASTER 4"
1991 Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Matthew Barney: New Work,"
artist's book
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 "Field Dressing," Payne Whitney Athletic Complex, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1988 "Scab Action," Video exhibition for the New York City Rainforest Alliance, Open
Center, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions:
2007 "Mask," James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, December 13, 2007 – January 26, 2008
"I am As You Will Be: The Skeleton in Art," Cheim & Read, New York, NY, September 20 –
November 3, 2007
"Sculptors Drawing," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, August 2 – October 14, 2007
"Summer Show," John McWhinnie @ Glen Horowitz Bookseller, New York, NY, July 20 –
August 16, 2007
"Il Tempo del Postino," co-curated by Hans Ulbrich Olbrist and Philippe Parreno, directed by
Philippe Parreno, Manchester International Festival, Opera House, Manchester,
England, July 12 – 14, 2007; travels to Paris, February 14 –16, 2008
"Mythos," Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria, June 2 – September 9, 2007
"Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art," Dallas Museum of
Art, Dallas, Texas, February 11 – May 20, 2007; cat.
"Faces," Cook Fine Art, New York, NY, January 15 – February 27,2007
2006 "all in the present must be transformed: Mattew Barney and Joseph Beuys," Deutsche
Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany, October 28, 2006 – January 12, 2007, Venice June 6, 2007 –
September 2, 2007
"Destricted," Galerie Mennour, Paris, France, October 27 – November 11, 2006
"Defamation of Character", organized by Neville Wakefield, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art
Center, Long Island City, New York, October 29, 2006, January 8, 2007
"Surprise Surprise," Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, August 2 –
September 10, 2006
"Figures in the Field: Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago
Collections," MCA Chicago, Illinois, February 4 – April 23, 2006
2005 "Thank You for the Music," curated by Johannes Fricke-Waldthausen, Gallery Sprüth
Magers, Munich, Germany, November 24, 2005 – February 11, 2006
"Recent Acquisitions," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, November
20, 2005 – January 9, 2006
"Drawing from the Modern , 1975 - 2005," Museum of Modern Art, New
York, NY, September 14, 2005 – January 9, 2006
"Individual Fields," curated by Aileen Corkey, Lismore Castle, Lismore, Ireland,
September 2 – October 30
"Mo(nu)ments!" Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway, May 21 –
September 18, 2005
"Les Grands Spectacles," Museum der Moderne Salozburg Mönchsberg,
Austria, June 18 – October 3, 2005
"Bidibidobidiboo," curated by Francesco Bonami, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection,
Turin, Italy, May 31 – October 2, 2005
Reykjavik Arts Festival 2005, May 14 - June 5, 2005
2004 "Everything is Connected he, he, he," Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway, May 29 – August 15, 2004
"Monument to Now," Deste-Nea Ionia Exhibition Space, curated by Dan Cameron, Alison M. Gingeras, Massimiliano Gioni, Nancy Spector, and Jeffrey Deitch,
Athens, Greece, June 22 – December 31, 2004
2003 "Inaugural Show," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, January 25 - March 8
2002 "Die Wohltat Der Kunst - Post/Feministische Positionen der 90er Jahre aus der Sammlung Goetz," Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, September 14 - November 10
"Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2000," curated by Sylvia Wolf, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, June 27 - Sept. 22
"Penetration," curated by Mark Fletcher, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, June 6 - August 15
2001 "Drawings," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, May 26 - July 21
"Public Offerings," curated by Paul Schimmel, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, March 31 - July 29, catalogue
"American Art," from the Goetz Collection, Galerie Rudolfinum, Munich, Germany, May 23 - September 2
"heads and hands," Washington Project for the Arts Exhibition, Washington D.C.,
January 26 - March 2001
2000 "Matthew Barney, Jennifer Pastor, Charles Ray," Barbara Gladstone Gallery,
November 11 - December 23, 2000
"00," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, July 6 - August 5, cat.
1999 "Plain Air," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, New York, July - August
"The Promise of Photography: selected works from the DGBank collection," P.S.1,
New York, NY
1998 "Global Vision: New Art From the 90's Part III: Dakis Joannou,"
Deste Foundation, Athens, November 24 through January 30, 1999
"Emotion: Young British and American Art from the Goetz Collection,"
The Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, October 29 - January 17, 1999
"Scratches on the surface of things," Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
"Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th-Century Vision," organized by the Hayward Gallery for the Arts Council of England, travels to Brighton Museum, July 2 - August 15, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, September 22 - January 2
"+Zone," Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
"Extensions: aspects of the figure," The Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, CT
1997 "De-Genderism," Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, Catalogue
"Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose" Gender Performance in Photography, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Catalogue
"sous le manteau," Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Catalogue
"Loco-Motion," Cinema Accademia Dorsoduro, Venice
Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
1996 "Hugo Boss Prize Exhibition," Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York
Tenth Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Australia (CREMASTER 1 screening)
"Matthew Barney, Tony Oursler and Jeff Wall," Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Catalogue
"Foreign Body," Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel
"Hybrids," De Appel, Amsterdam, catalogue
"conceal reveal," curated by Bruce Ferguson, Site Santa Fe, September 13 - November 2
"Ideal Standard Life," Art at Home, Tokyo, April 26
"Defining the Nineties: Consensus-making in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles," Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, February 24 - April 6, catalogue
"Picasso: A Contemporary Dialog," Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Salzberg, Austria
"Passions Privees," Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris
"Faustrecht der Freiheit," Neues Museum Weserberg, Bremen
1995 "Drawings on Chance," Selections from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
"DASAMERICAS II," Musea de Arte de Sao Paulo, Brasil
"Ripple Across the Water 95," WATARI-UM Museum of Tokyo
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"ARS '95," Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, catalogue, ill., pp. 176-177
"The Masculine Masquerade," MIT List Visual Center, Cambridge, MA
"Altered States. American Art in The 90's," Forum For Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
1994 "Hors Limites," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Century," Spiral, Tokyo
"The Ossuary," Luhring Augustine, New York
"Acting Out - The Body in Video: Then and Now," Royal College of Art, London
"Sammlung Volkmann," Berlin
"Drawing on Sculpture," Cohen Gallery, New York
1993 "Aperto 93," 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue," Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Action/Performance and the Photograph," Turner-Krull Galleries, Los Angeles
"Exhibition to Benefit the Mapplethorpe Laboratory for AIDS Research,"
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NY
"Works on Paper," Paula Cooper Gallery, NY
1992 "Documenta IX," Kassel, Germany, catalogue
"Perils et Coleres," capc Musee Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
"Post Human," FAE Musee d'Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland, catalogue, traveled to Castello di Rivoli; Deste Foundation, Athens; and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
"Matthew Barney, Sam Reveles, Nancy Rubins," SteinGladstone Gallery, NY
"Spielholle," U-Bahn Station, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"Drawing Show," Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, "ACT-UP Benefit Art Sale"
1990 "Viral Infection. The Body and its Discontents," Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Althea Viafora Gallery, New York, NY
"Drawings," Althea Viafora Gallery, New York, NY
"Video Library," Andrea Rosen Gallery
FILM SCREENINGS:
2003 Nuart Theatre, Los Angeles (CREMASTER CYCLE) , May 16-May 29, 2003
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CREMASTER 3), January 9
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (CREMASTER 3), January 8 - 10
Sundance Film Festival (CREMASTER 3), January 18 - 20
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
(CREMASTERs 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), May 10 - 11
Asahi Word Community Center, Osaka (CREMASTERs 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), May 18
Cinemateket, Norsk Filminstitut, Oslo, Norway, (The CREMASTER CYCLE)
September 12- October 24, 2003
2002 Independent Film Festival, Istanbul (CREMASTER 2, CREMASTER 5), January 19 and 26
Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki (CREMASTER 5), January 20
Aichi Art Center, Nagoya (CREMASTER 1, CREMASTER 5), March 15
Images Festival, Toronto (CREMASTER 1, CREMASTER 4), April 19
Ziegfeld Theatre, New York (CREMASTER 3), May 1
Film Forum, New York (CREMASTER 3), May 15 -28, held over through June 27
Philharmonie, Cologne (CREMASTER 3), June 4
Teatro Goldoni, organized by Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery
and the Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, Florence, June 18-24
(CREMASTERs 1, 2, 3, 4 , and 5)
Temple Bar, Dublin (CREMASTERs 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) August 5 - 10
Criterion Theatre, Bar Harbor ME (CREMASTER 3), August 18
Cinema Rise, Tokyo (CREMASTERs 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), August 31 - September 6
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo (CREMASTER 3), September 14 - 29
Art Institute of Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center (CREMASTER 3),
September 13 - 15
Milwaukee Art Museum at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Union
Theater (CREMASTER 5), October 8
Teatre Le Trianon, Paris (CREMASTER 3), October 9
Flanders International Film Festival, in association with SMAK, Gent
(CREMASTER 3), October 19
Kyoto Art Theatre (CREMASTER 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), October 19
Artangel at the Ritzy Cinema, London (CREMASTERs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5),
October 25 - November 19
Hirshhorn Museum at the Gene Siskel Film Center, Washigton DC (CREMASTER 3),
October 31 - November 1
MK2 Beaubourg, Paris (CREMASTERs 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), October 9, 2002 - January 5, 2003
Art Space A, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya (CREMASTERs 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5),
November 14 - 16
Kunsthalle Wien at the Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum (CREMASTERs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5),
November 20 -22.
Museum of Art, Kochi (CREMASTERs 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), November 23 - 24
2001 Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (CREMASTER 2), November 11
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore (CREMASTER 2), November 6
Artist Make Movies at United Artists Theatre, East Hampton, in association with
Hamptons International Film Festival, (CREMASTER 2), October 18 - 19
Festivale de danse moderne at Ex-Centris Theatre, Montreal (CREMASTER 1,
CREMASTER 2), September 24 & 25
MAC, Dallas (CREMASTER 2), September 16
Sharp Theatre at Ramapo College, NJ (CREMASTER 4)
Vienna State Opera House, organized by Museum in Progress (CREMASTER 5), June 16
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, organized in association with the Annual American Psychiatric Association Conference (CREMASTER 2), May 9
Duisburg City Festival, organized by Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
(CREMASTER 1), May 6
Weston Art Gallery, Cincinatti (CREMASTER 2), May 3
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (CREMASTER 4), April 23
Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (CREMASTER 1, CREMASTER 2), April
Hamburg Kunsthalle (CREMASTER 1, CREMASTER 2, CREMASTER 4), March
Kunstverein Hannover (CREMASTER 2), March 8
Flicks, Boise, ID (CREMASTER 2), March 22-29
2000 Shanghai Biennial (CREMASTER 4), November 2000 - January 2001
The Contemporary, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, (CREMASTER 2), December 5th
Filmtheater't Hoogt, (Cremaster 2 & 5)
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich
Frac Basse-Normandie, LUX Cinema
Kunstlerverein Malkasten, Dusseldorf, (Cremaster2), October 13-14
Shangai Biennial, China, (Cremaster 4), November 6
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, (Cremaster 2), October 18
Festival de Rio, Brazil, (Cremaster2), October 5-19
Inter Media City, Seoul, Korea, (CR4), September 2-October31
Cleveland Cinema, (Cremaster 2), September 30 & October 1
Kanazawa Contemporary Art, Japan, (CR 4 & 5), September 9-15
"CREMASTER 2", Stadtkino Basel, Cine y casi cine, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte reina
Sofia (Cremaster 2 and Cremaster 4), July 5 /August 4
Art and Culture 2000, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico, (CREMASTER 2), May 23
The Power Plant, Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, (CREMASTER 2), March 3
Goteborg Film Festival, Sweden, (CREMASTER 2), January 28-February 6
Metro, London, (CREMASTER 2), January 27-February 3
Kunsthalle Wien, Filmcasino, (CREMASTER 2), January 26-February 6
Ecole des Beaux Arts, Tours, France, (CREMASTER 5), January 10
Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle, (CREMASTER2), January 1-13
1999 Zeitwenden, Bonn, Germany, (Cremaster 2), December 4 & 5
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany, (CREMASTER 5, CREMASTER 4), December 6
Hirschhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, (CREMASTER 2), November 18 & 19
Artsonje, Seoul, Korea, (CREMASTER 1 & 5), November 18 & 19
Carnegie International, PA, (CREMASTER 2), November 4-March 2000
MCA Chicago, (CREMASTER 2), October 29-30
Film Forum, NY, ( CREMASTER 2), October 13-November 4
Detroit Institute of Art, (CREMASTER 5 & 1), September 30
Pitti Immagine Discovery, Florence, Italy, (CREMASTER 2), September 23-28
Temple Bar Production, Dublin, Ireland, (CREMASTER 1, CREMASTER 4),
September 23
Glassel School of Art, Houston, Texas, (CREMASTER 4 & 5)
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, (CREMASTER 5 & 1)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, (CREMASTER 2), July 8- October 17
IVAM, Valencia, Spain, (CREMASTER 4 & 5), May 22-30
Artspace, New Zealand, (CREMASTER 5), May 6
Temple Bar Production, Dublin, Ireland, (CREMASTER 5), April 29
1999 Austin Museum of Art, Texas, (CREMASTER 5), April 1
Nanjo and Associates, Tokyo, (CREMASTER 1), April 16-25
"Art in the News", Matthew Barney, CAM, University of South Florida,
(CREMASTER 5), March 28
International Film Festival, Cleveland (CREMASTER 4, CREMASTER 5), March 23
1998 Slamdance Film Festival, Park City Utah (CREMASTER 5) - January 21.
Kunsthalle Wien (CREMASTER 1, CREMASTER 4) at Filmcasino,
Vienna – January 22.
Rotterdam International Film Festival (CREMASTER 5, March of the Anal Sadistic Warrior) January 28 - February 8.
"Facts and Fiction: Film and Video Festival" (CREMASTER 5), Cinema De Amicis,
Milano, Italy - February 3.
"Wounds: Between democracy and redemption in contemporary art,"
Exhibition organized by Moderna Museet, Sweden, (CREMASTER 5),
February 14 - April 26.
NAT Film Festival (CREMASTER 5, March with the Anal Sadistic Warrior,)
Copenhagen, Denmark February 27 - March 14 (2 screenings.)
Nuart Theater (CREMASTER 5 and CREMASTER 4,)
Los Angeles, California February 6 - 12.
METRO Cinema (CREMASTER 5 and CREMASTER 1,) London, England March 20 - 26.
14 de juillet Theater (CREMASTER 5) Paris, France March 23 - April 5.
Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, (CREMASTER 5), December 3.
"El jo divers," Cycle Sala Montcada of Fundacio "la Caixa," Barcelona,
curated by Juan Antonio Alvarez Reyes, June 30 - July 8, 1998 (CREMASTER 1 and CREMASTER 5)
1997 Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, (CREMASTER 1, CREMASTER 4)
C3, Center for Culture and Communication, Budapest, Hungary, (CREMASTER 5)
Film Forum, New York (CREMASTER 5)
1996 Film Forum, New York (CREMASTER 1, CREMASTER 4), July
Flicks, Boise, Idaho, (CREMASTER 1, CREMASTER 4), July
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CREMASTER 1, CREMASTER 4), May-June
L.A. County Museum of Art (CREMASTER 1, CREMASTER 4), May
Museum of Modern Art, New York (CREMASTER 1), February
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (CREMASTER 4), February
1995 New York Film Festival (CREMASTER 1), October
The Metro, London (CREMASTER 4), May
Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York, (CREMASTER 4), April-May
