Matthew Barney
1967
Born, San Francisco (CA)
1989
BA Yale University, New Haven (CT)
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Matthew Barney. Contemporary Mythologies, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy Ren Faire (performance), Los Angeles (LA), 18 May Matthew Barney Drawing Restraint, Kunsthalle wien, Vienna
2007
Drawing Restraint New Sun, Sadie Coles HQ, London Matthew Barney, Serpentine Gallery, London
2006
The Occidental Guest, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint 9 Storyboards, John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York
2005
Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; travelled to Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (CA)
2003
Matthew Barney in the Living Art Museum, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik
Boise Art Museum, Boise (ID)
Matthew Barney: Cremasters, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
2002
Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle, organised by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; travelled to Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Artangel, London
1999
CREMASTER 2: The Drones’ Exposition, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis (MN); travelled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (CA)
1998
March with the Anal Sadistic Warrior, KunstKanaal, Amsterdam
CREMASTER 5, Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
CREMASTER 5, Regen Projects, Los Angeles (CA)
CREMASTER 1, Öffentliche Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
1997
CREMASTER 5, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
CREMASTER 5, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
CREMASTER 1, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
1996
Transexualis and REPRESSIA; CREMASTER 1 and CREMASTER 4, San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1994
Portraits from CREMASTER 4, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
1991
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles (CA)
Matthew Barney: New Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (CA)
1989
Field Dressing, Payne Whitney Athletic Complex, Yale University, New Haven (CT)
Scab Action, Video exhibition for the New York City Rainforest Alliance, Open Centre, New York
1988
Scab Action, Video exhibition for the New York City Rainforest Alliance, Open Centre, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
Listen Darling… The World Is Yours, Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Art Centre, Cascais, Portugal histoires de point d’ironie, Galerie du Jour, Paris, France
2007
Prison, Bloomberg Space, London
Mythos: Joseph Beuys, Matthew Barney, Douglas Gordon, Cy Twombly, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Il Tempo del Postino, Opera House, Manchester.
2006
all in the present must be transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
Defamation of Character, PS 1 MoMA, New York
The Eighth Square, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
The Guggenheim Collection, KAH, Bonn, Germany
New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Film, Music and Video, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
Human Game, Statione Leopolda, Florence, Italy
Surprise, Surprise, ICA, London
Into Me / Out of Me, PS 1, New York; travelling to Kunstwerke Berlin; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, (CO)
What Makes You and I Different, Tramway 2 / Project Room, Glasgow, Scotland
Figures in the Field: Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (IL)
Thank You for the Music, Galerie Spruth Magers, Munich, Germany
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (CA)
2005
11th BIM Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l’Image contemporaine, Paris
Bidibidobidiboo: Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Torino, Italy
(My Private) Heroes, MARTa, Herford, Germany
Work Time/Material Time/Life Time, Akureyi Art Museum, Iceland
Quartet: Barney, Gober, Levine, Walker, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis (MN)
2004
Klutterkammer: 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, Roverto, Italy
Love / Hate From Magritte to Cattelan: Masterpieces from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Villa Manin Centre of Contemporary Art, Passarinano, Udine, Italy
Touch and Temperature: Art in the Age of Cybernetic Totalism, Bitforms, New York
The Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony – Emerging Resonances, 21st Century Museum of Contemprary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2003
Perfect Innocence: The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore (MD) and Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach (FL)
Picturing the Artist: Photography from the MCA Collection, Just Love Me: Post Feminist Art of the 1990s from the Goetz Collection, Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway; travelling to Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Fast Forward: Media Art / Sammlung Goetz, ZKM Centre for Arts and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Silver, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Storytelling, Wexner Centre for the Arts, Columbus (OH)
Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2002
Penetration, Fredrich Petzel / Marianne Boesky Galleries, New York
Shortcuts: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus
Arte Contemporáneo Internacional, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Hautnah: The Goetz Collection, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
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; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Tempo, MoMA Queens, Long Island City, New York
Sand in der Vaseline: Künstlerbücher II: 1980 – 2000, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
Life Death Love Hate Pleasure Pain, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (IL)
2001
Ten Photographers, Galleri K, Oslo
American Art from the Goetz Collection, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
Uniform: Order and Disorder, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, Long Island City, New York
Parkett, Collaborations and Editions since 1984, MoMA, New York
The Glenn 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, Los Angeles, (CA)
Heads and Hands, Decatur House, Washington (DC)
Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950 – 2000 From Dali to Koons, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
2000
Matthew Barney, Jennifer Pastor, Charles Ray, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Staged, Constructions in Contemporary Photography, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
Recent Acquisitions, Kunstwerke, Berlin
MUSEUM, Astrup Fearnley Museet fur Moderne Kunst, Oslo
Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (IL)
Media_city Seoul 2000, Contemporary Art and Technology Biennial, Seoul
Voil á: Le monde dans la tëte, Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
What’s New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Outbound: Passages from the 90s, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (TX)
1999
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Regarding Beauty, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington (DC)
The Promise of Photography: Selected Works from the DG Bank Collection, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York
1998
Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Scratches on the Surface of Things, Museum Boymans van Beunigen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Die Rache der Veronika, Fotosammlung Lambert, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Emotion: Young British and American art from the Goetz Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
+Zone, Palazzo ReRebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Italy
Global Vision, New Art from the 90s – with new aqisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens
Extentions: Aspects of the Figure, The Joseloff Galley, Hartford Art School, Hartford (CT)
1997 De-Genderism, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
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 (PA)
Sous le Manteau, Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Loco-Motion, Cinema Accademia Dorsoduro, Venice Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
1996
Sammlung Volkmann zeigt: Faustrecht der Freiheit, Kunstsammlung Gera, Germany; travelled to Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Germany
Hugo Boss Prize Exhibition, Guggenheim SoHo, New York Tenth Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Australia
Matthew Barney, Tony Oursler and Jeff Wall, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Foreign Body, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Hybrids, De Appel, Amsterdam
Defining the Nineties: Consensus-making in New York, Miami and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Picasso: a Contemporary Dialogue, Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Salzberg, Austria
Passions Privees, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Faustrect der Freiheit, Neues Museum Weserberg, Bremen, Germany
Art at Home, Ideal Standard Life, The Spiral Garden, Tokyo
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, Tokyo
Biennial Exhibtion, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
ARS ’95, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
The Masculine Masquerade, MIT List Visual Center, Cambridge (MA)
Altered States: American Art in the 90s, Forum for Contemprorary Art, St. Louis (MO)
1994
Hors Limites, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
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
Exhibtion to Benefit the Mapplethorpe Laboratory for AIDS Research, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Aperto ’93, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Biennial Exhibtion, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue, Fairfield University, Fairfield (CT)
Action/Performance and the Photograph, Turner – Krull Galleries, Los Angeles (CT)
Works on Paper, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1992
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
Perils et Coleres, capC Musée, Bordeaux, France
Post Human, FAE Musée d’Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland; travelled to Castillo de Rivoli; Dete Foundation, Athens; Dichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Matthew Barney, Sam Revels and Nancy Rubins, SteinGladstone Gallery, New York
Spielhölle, U-Bahn Station, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
1991
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
ACT-UP Benefit Art Sale, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1990
Viral Infection: The Body and its Discontents, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre, Buffalo (NY)
Awards
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, San Francisco (CA)
2001
Glen Dimplex Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin