Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney, born in 1967 in San Francisco, is an artist known for sculptural installations, performance art, and video. His work explores the physicality of sports, sexuality, and the limits of the body. In his one of the latest project, Redoubt, he creates a complex portrait of the American landscape by layering classical, cosmological, and American myths about humanity's place in the natural world.
Awards & Prizes
2011 Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award, 54th San Francisco International Film Festival
2007 Kaiser Ring Award, Mönchehaus Museum für moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany
2002 Glen Dimplex Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
1999 James D. Phelan Art Award in Video, Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco Foundation
1996 Hugo Boss Prize, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1993 Europa 2000 Prize, Aperto '93, 45th Venice Biennale
Performances
2021 "Catasterism in Three Movements," September 22-25, Foundation Laurenz Schaulager, Münchenstein, Switzerland
2010 "KHU," October 2, Detroit, Michigan
2008 "REN," May 18, Los Angeles
2007 "Guardian of the Veil, 'Il Tempo del Postino,'" July 12-14, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, England
