Matthew Barney



Biography

1967
Born in San Francisco, California
Lives and works in New York City

Education/Prizes

1989
B.A. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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

2003
"Matthew Barney in the Living Art Museum," Living Art Museum, Reykjavik Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
"Matthew Barney - Cremasters," Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo

2002
"Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle," organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; travelled to Museum Ludwig, Cologne and MusŽe d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Artangel, London

1999
"CREMASTER 2: The Drones' Exposition," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; travelled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

1998
"March with the Anal Sadistic Warrior," KunstKanaal, Amsterdam
"CREMASTER 5," Fundaci— La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
"CREMASTER 5," Regen Projects, Los Angeles
"CREMASTER 1," …ffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Kunstmuseum

1997
"CREMASTER 5," Portikus, Frankfurt
"CREMASTER 5," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"CREMASTER 1," Kunsthalle Wien

1996
"Transexualis and REPRESSIA"
"CREMASTER 1 and CREMASTER 4," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1995
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
The Tate Gallery, London
Fondation Cartier, Paris
"PACE CAR for the HUBRIS PILL,'" Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
travelled to MusŽe d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux and Kunsthalle Bern (1996), Catalogue

1994
"Portraits from CREMASTER 4," Regen Projects, Los Angeles

1991
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles
"Matthew Barney: New Work," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1989
"Field Dressing," Payne Whitney Athletic Complex, Yale University, New Haven

1988
"Scab Action," Video exhibition for the New York City Rainforest Alliance, Open Center, New York

Group Exhibitions

2005
"(My Private) Heroes," MARTa, Herford, Germany
"Work Time/Material Time/Life Time" Akureyi Art Museum, Iceland
"Quartet: Barney, Gober, Levine, Walker," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2004
"KlŸtterkammer: An Exhibition by John Bock," Institute of Contemporary Art, London
"Working Editions," Fine Art in Space, Long Island City, New York
"Il Bello e le bestie," Museum d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
"Love/Hate From Magritte to Cattelan: Masterpieces from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago," Villa Manin Center of Contemporary Art, Passariano, Udine, Italy, May 30 - November 7, curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Canarutto, Catalogue
"Touch and Temperature: Art in the Age of Cybernetic Totalism," Bitforms, New York, curated by Michael Rees
"Working Editions: An Exploration of Art and Function," Fine Art in Space, Long Island City, New York
"The Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony- Emerging Resonances," 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, curated by Yuko Hasegawa

2003
"Perfect Innocence: The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection," Contemporary Museum Baltimore and Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art "Picturing the Artist: Photography from the MCA Collection," curated by Staci Boris, Catalogue
"Just Love Me: Post-Feminist Art of the 1990s from the Goetz Collection," Bergen Art Museum, Bergen; travels to Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Catalogue
"Fast Forward: Media Art / Sammlung Goetz," ZKM, Center for Arts and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Silver," Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria
"Storytelling," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
"Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer," La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Francesco Bonami, Venice

2002
"Penetration." Friedrich Petzel/Marianne Boesky Galleries, New York, curated by Mark Fletcher
"Shortcuts: Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection," Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus
"Arte Contempor‡neo Internacional," Museo de Arte Moderno, MŽxico
"Hautnah: The Goetz Collection," Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
"Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Moving Pictures," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; travelled to Guggenheim Bilbao
"Tempo," MoMA Queens, Long Island City, New York
"Sand in der Vaseline: KŸnstlerbŸcher II: 1980 - 2000," Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
"Life Death Love Hate Pleasure Pain," MCA Chicago

2001
"Ten Photographers," Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
"American Art from the Goetz Collection," Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
"Uniform: Order and Disorder," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
"Parkett, Collaborations and Editions since 1984," Museum of Modern Art, New York
"The Glen Dimplex Artists Award Exhibition 2001," Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
"Affecting Invention," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Public Offerings," Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
"Heads and Hands," Decatur House, Washington D.C.
"Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950-2000 From Dali to Koons," Kunsthaus Zurich
"Arte Contemporaneo Internacional," Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City

2000
"Matthew Barney, Jennifer Pastor, Charles Ray," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York "Staged, Constructions in Contemporary Photography," Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
"Recent Aqusitions," Kunstwerke, Berlin
"MUSEUM," Astrup-Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
"Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"media_city seoul 2000", Contemporary Art and Technology Biennial, Seoul, Korea
"Voilˆ: Le monde dans la tte", MusŽe d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
"What's New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Outbound: Passages from the 90's," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

1999
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
"Regarding Beauty," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Catalogue
"The Promise of Photography: Selected Works from the DG Bank Collection", PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

1998
"Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art," Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Catalogue
"Scratches on the Surface of Things," Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
"Die Rache der Veronika," Fotosammlung Lambert, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
"Emotion: Young British and American art from the Goetz collection," Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, Catalogue
"+Zone," Palazzo ReRebaudengo, Guarene d'Alba
"Global Vision, New Art from the 90's - with new acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection," Deste Foundation, Athens
"Extensions: Aspects of the Figure," The Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Connecticut

1997
"De-Genderism," Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Catalogue
"A Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography," Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; travelled to the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. 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 SoHo, New York
Tenth Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Australia
"Matthew Barney, Tony Oursler and Jeff Wall," Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Catalogue
"Foreign Body," Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel
"Hybrids," De Appel, Amsterdam, Catalogue
"Defining the Nineties: Consensus-making in New York, Miami and Los Angeles," Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
"Picasso: a Contempoary Dialogue," Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Salzberg, Austria
"Passions Privees," MusŽe d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
"Faustrecht der Freiheit," Neues Museum Weserberg, Bremen
"Art at Home, Ideal Standard Life," The Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Catalogue

1995
"Drawing on Chance: Selections from the Collection," Museum of Modern Art, New York
"DASAMERICAS II," Museu 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
"The Masculine Masquerade," MIT List Visual Center, Cambridge, MA
"Altered States: American Art in The 90's," Forum For Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Catalogue

1994
"Hors Limites," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Catalogue
"Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Century," Spiral Gallery, Tokyo
"Acting Out: The Body in Video, Then and Now," Royal College of Art, London
"Sammlung Volkmann," Berlin
"The Ossuary," Luhring Augustine, New York
"Drawing on Sculpture," Cohen Gallery, New York

1993
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Exhibition to Benefit the Mapplethorpe Laboratory for AIDS Research," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Aperto '93," 45th Venice Biennale, Venice
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue," Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut
"Action/Performance and the Photograph," Turner-Krull Galleries, Los Angeles
"Works on Paper," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

1992
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany, Catalogue
"PŽrils et Colres," capC MusŽe, Bordeaux, France
"Post Human," FAE MusŽe d'Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland, Catalogue, travelled to Castello di Rivoli; Dete Foundation, Athens; and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
"Matthew Barney, Sam Reveles, and Nancy Rubins," SteinGladstone Gallery, New York
"Spielhšlle," U-Bahn Station, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

1991
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, "ACT-UP Benefit Art Sale"

1990
"Viral Infection: The Body and its Discontents," Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo
"Drawings," Althea Viafora Gallery, New York
"Video Library," Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York