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.
Movie Appearances
Cremaster 4
as The Loughton Candidate
1995
Drawing Restraint 9
as Occidental Guest
2006
Drawing Restraint 17
2010
Matthew Barney: No Restraint
as Self
2006
Secondary
as Ken Stabler
2023
Redoubt
as Engraver
TBA
River of Fundament
as The Ka of Norman / Osiris: James Lee Byers
2014
Cremaster 5
as Diva / Giant / Magician
1997
DRAWING RESTRAINT 13: Instrument of Surrender
as Douglas MacArthur
2006
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
as Himself
2004
Matthew Barney: Creating Stories
as Himself
1995
Mile High Threshold: Flight with the Anal Sadistic Warrior
1991
The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle
as Himself
2002
Redoubt
as Engraver
2019
Blind Perineum
as Himself
1991
Cremaster 3
as The Entered Apprentice
2002
Cremaster 2
as Gary Gilmore
1999
The Cremaster Cycle
TBA