| 1967 | Born, San Francisco CA, USA |
| 1989 |
BA Yale University, New Haven CT, USA Lives and works in New York NY, USA |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2024 |
SECONDARY: object impact, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France |
| 2023 |
Secondary, Matthew Barney studio, Long Island City NY, USA |
| 2022 |
Drawing Restraint 25, Gladstone, Seoul, South Korea 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan |
| 2021 |
After Ruby Ridge, Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany Redoubt, Hayward Gallery, London, England (touring) |
| 2020 |
Cosmic Hunt, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England |
| 2019 |
Embrasure, Gladstone Gallery, Gladstone 64, New York NY, USA Redoubt, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, (touring) Redoubt, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT, USA (touring) (cat.) |
| 2016 |
Facility of DECLINE, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA Bildungsroman, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway DRAWING RESTRAINT: Matthew Barney,Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand |
| 2015 |
WATER CASTINGS: Fourteen Pieces,Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA River of Fundament,The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2014 |
Crown Zinc,Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England River of Fundament, MONA Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Australia Drawing Restraint,AGO Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (installation) River of Fundament,Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany |
| 2013 |
Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York NY, USA; BnF Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France (touring) |
| 2011 |
DJED, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2010 |
Prayer Sheet with the Wound and the Nail, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, England |
| 2009 | Ancient Evenings: Libretto, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2008 |
Contemporary Mythologies, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy Ren Faire, Los Angeles CA, USA, 18 May (performance) Drawing Restraint, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria |
| 2007 |
Drawing from Guardian of the Veil,Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA Sammlung-Goetz, Munich, Germany Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Verein zur Förderung moderner Kunst e.V., Goslar, Germany Drawing Restraint New Sun, Sadie Coles HQ off-site: 53 Central Street, London, England Serpentine Gallery, London, England |
| 2006 |
The Occidental Guest, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint 9 Storyboards, John McWhinnie off-site: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York NY, USA |
| 2005 |
Drawing Restraint,21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; travelled to Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea; SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA |
| 2004 | The Cremaster Cycle,Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA |
| 2003 |
Matthew Barney in the Living Art Museum,Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland Boise Art Museum, Boise ID, USA Cremasters,Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway |
| 2002 |
The CREMASTER Cycle,organised by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA; travelled to Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; Artangel, London, England |
| 2000 |
CREMASTER 2: The Drones’ Explosion, Walker Art Canter, Minneapolis MN, USA Mathew Barney: Creamaster 5, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 1999 | CREMASTER 2: The Drones’ Exposition,Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis MN, USA; travelled to SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA |
| 1998 |
March with the Anal Sadistic Warrior,KunstKanaal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands CREMASTER 5, la Caixa Foundation, Barcelona, Spain CREMASTER 5, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA CREMASTER 1, Öffentliche Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
| 1997 |
CREMASTER 5,Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany CREMASTER 5,Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA CREMASTER 1,Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria |
| 1996 |
Transexualis and REPRESSIA; CREMASTER 1 and CREMASTER 4,SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA |
| 1995 |
pace car for the hubris pill,Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA Art Now: Matthew Barney: OTTOshaft, Tate Britain, London, England Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France |
| 1994 | Portraits from CREMASTER 4,Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 1991 |
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA Matthew Barney: New Work,SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA |
| 1989 |
Field Dressing,Payne Whitney Athletic Complex, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA Scab Action, Video exhibition for the New York City Rainforest Alliance, Open Centre, New York NY, USA |
| 1988 |
Scab Action, Video exhibition for the New York City Rainforest Alliance, Open Centre, New York NY, USA |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2024 |
Flowers of Romance – Act One, Ludovico Corsini, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2023 |
Postcard Kilometer: Artists’ Cards in Europe from 1960 to Today, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, Germany Au bout de mes rêves, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Tripostal, Lille, France |
| 2022 |
Building and Dreaming, BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, China A Divided Landscape, The Momentary, Crystal Bridges, Museum of American Art, Bentonville AR, USA REPEATER, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England Matthew Barney, Carolee Schneemann, Kazuo Shiraga, Min Tanaka, Fergus McCaffrey, New York NY, USA |
| 2021 |
A.B.O. THEATRON. Art or Life, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy Before the Cockerel Crows, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Selections: Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA American Art 1961-2001: The Walker Art Center Collections, from Andy Warhol to Kara Walker, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy City on the Edge: Art and Shanghai at the Turn of the Millenium, UCCA Centre For Contemporary Art, Beijing |
| 2020 |
2020 Wuhan 5th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts Physis: Production of Nature, Human and Technology, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China Matthew Barney, Carolee Schneeman, Kazuo Shiraga and Min Tanaka, Fergus McCaffrey, Tokyo, Japan Ride into the Sun, 3rd Industrial Art Biennial, Labin, Croatia Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, 21st Street, New York NY, USA |
| 2019 |
Up to and Including Limits: After Carolee Schneemann, Muzeum Susch, Zernez, Switzerland Art & Porn, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (touring) IF THE SNAKE, Okayama Art Summit 2019, various locations, Okayama, Japan, curated by Pierre Huyghe Desire: A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age, IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Art & Porn, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark (touring) A TIME CAPSULE CONTINUED | Completing the Two-Part Survey of All 270 Works Made by Artists for Parkett - 1984 – 2017, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich, Switzerland Drawn Together Again, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York NY, USA |
| 2018 |
The Elephant in the Room: Sculptures of the Marx Collection and of the Collection of the Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany Curtain – Vorhang, Bildraum Bodensee, Bregenz, Austria Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland Artists for Artangel. A Fund for the Future, Artangel off-site: Cork Street Galleries, London, England In Tune with the World, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France BioPerversity, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA, curated by John Knuth and Ben Lee Ritchie Handler |
| 2017 |
The Everywhere Studio, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami FL, USA Clouds ⇄ Forest, 7th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia, curated by Yuko Hasegawa Again and Again, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium Liquid Antiquity, organised by the DESTE Foundation, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece What I Loved: Selected Works from The ‘90s, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2016 |
Flying over the Abyss, Athens Conservatoire, Athens, Greece Winter in America, Jack Shaniman Gallery: The School, Kinderhook, New York NY, USA The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics, The Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, England The Campaign for Art: Contemporary,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA Receipt of a Magical Agent,Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York NY, USA Hey You! ~ Who Me?,32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut CT, USA Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin TX, USA |
| 2015 |
Flying Over the Abyss, Neon and The Contemporary Art centre of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Winter in America,Jack Shainman Gallery: The Shop, New York NY, USA The Articulated Void, The PostContemporary, Troy NY, USA Future Present, Schaulager, Münchenstein, Switzerland Flying over the Abyss, NEON and Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Crete, Greece Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection,University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan MI, USA All The World's a Stage, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany La La La Human Steps,Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s,Montclair Art Museum, Montclair NJ, USA; Telfair Museums, Savannah GA, USA; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor MI, USA A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection,The FLAG Art Foundation, New York NY, USA Partial Presence,Zabludowicz Collection, London, England |
| 2014 |
Manifest Intention. Drawing in All its Forms, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy Not For All My Little Words, Marc Straus, New York NY, USA Philippe Parreno – Dessins, Cahiers d’Art, Paris, France A Very Short History of Contemporary Sculpture,curated by Francesco Bonami, Phillips, London, England Stanze/Rooms, me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin, Germany Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium Love Story – Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection,Winter Palace and 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria A Secret Affair: Selections From The Fuhrman Family Collection,The Contemporary Austin, Austin TX, USA A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio,Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA A Thousand Doors,NEON and Whitechapel Gallery (off-site) The Gennadius Library and Gardens, The American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece |
| 2013 |
Legacy: Photographs From the Emily Fisher Landau Collection,The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield CT, USA Aquatopia, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England Gironcoli: context, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria Altars of Madness, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil do it, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York NY, USA (curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, touring exhibition through to December 2018) NYC: 1993: Experimental Jet St, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York NY, USA Lyon Biennale,Lyon, France |
| 2012 |
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland The Studio: Workshop and Myth, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Der Nackte Mann, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria Battleground States, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City UT, USA To Be with Art Is All We Ask, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY, USA; Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA, USA The Circus as a Parallel Universe, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Topsy Turvy, de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL, USA Schichtwechsel, Nordstern Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany Behold America!, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the Timken Museum of Art, San Diego CA, USA Topsy Turvy, De Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Houdini: Art and Magic, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI, USA |
| 2011 |
In the Name of the Artists: American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection,Bienal Pavillion, Sao Paulo, Brazil Home Alone, curated by Sarah Aibel, Sender Collection, Miami FL, USA American Exuberance,Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami FL, USA Perspectives: On the Borders of Art and Philosophy - Listasafn Reykjavikur, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland Silent Echoes: Collection Exhibition I, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan El intervalo luminoso: The D.Daskalopoulos Collection - Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao, Spain Ingvild Goetz Collection, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Oceanomania, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco, Principality of Monaco Black Swan: The Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont VT, USA Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960, MoMA, New York NY, USA Robert Mapplethorpe: Night Work: Curated by Scissor Sisters with..., Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England Testing Ground, Zabludowicz Collection London, London, England Houdini: Art and Magic Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles CA, USA, travels to the Contemporary Jewish Art Museum, San Francisco CA, USA |
| 2010 |
Accessories to An Artwork, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, New York NY, USA Sweat, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland Do Redo Undo, Wiels Museum, Brussels, Belgium Focus on Artists: 75th anniversary, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA Transformation, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan Houdini: Art and Magic, The Jewish Museum, New York NY, USA Sweat, curated by Marilyn Minter and Fabienne Stephan, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA Detroit, Kunsthalle Wien project space, Vienna, Austria |
| 2009 |
Nine New Destinations, Inhotim Cultural Institute, Brumadino, Brazil Yokohama Triennial: Time Crevasse, Yokohama, Japan Barock, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy Inhotim 09: Nine New Destinations, Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil 100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009),P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York NY, USA Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA Cella, Complesso Monumentale di San Michele a Ripa, Rome, Italy Bad Habits, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York NY, USA Chelsea Visits Havana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba Rotating Views #1, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway 1992009, D’Amelio Terras, New York NY, USA Blood of Two: Matthew Barney and Elizabeth Peyton, Slaughterhouse, Deste Foundation Project Space, Hydra, Greece |
| 2008 |
Here Is Every: Four Decades of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA Meet Me Around the Corner - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway Under Pain of Death, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York NY, USA 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 Las Implicaciones de la Imagen, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2007 |
Sculptors Drawing, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO, USA I Am As You Will Be: The Skeleton in Art, Cheim & Read, New York NY, USA Role Exchange, Sean Kelly, New York NY, USA Existencias, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain Mask, James Cohan, New York NY, USA Concept: Photography-Dialogues & Attitudes, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Cologne, Germany Artist Moving Image, Bath Film Festival, Bath, England Lights Camera Action: Artist's Film for the Cinema, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA Narcissus Faces, Cook Fine Art, New York NY, USA Speed 1, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain Prison, Bloomberg Space, London, England Mythos: Joseph Beuys, Matthew Barney, Douglas Gordon, Cy Twombly, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria Il Tempo del Postino, Opera House, Manchester, England WEISSE FOLTER, K20K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, curated by Julian Heynen and Brigitte Kölle |
| 2006 |
Not all is Visible: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection,Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway all in the present must be transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys,Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany Defamation of Character,PS 1 MoMA, New York NY, USA 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, Principality of Monaco Human Game,Statione Leopolda, Florence, Italy Surprise, Surprise,ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England Into Me / Out of Me,PS 1, New York; travelling to Kunstwerke Berlin; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway Having New Eyes,Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO, USA 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, USA Thank You for the Music,Galerie Spruth Magers, Munich, Germany Dark Places,Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA, USA |
| 2005 |
11th BIM Biennial of Moving Images,Centre pour l’Image contemporaine, Paris, France 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, Akureyi, Iceland Quartet: Barney, Gober, Levine, Walker,Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis MN, USA |
| 2004 |
Klutterkammer: An Exhibition by John Bock, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England Working Editions,Fine Art in Space, Long Island City, New York NY, USA 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 NY, USA 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, USA; Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach FL, USA Picturing the Artist: Photography from the MCA Collection,Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA Just Love Me: Post Feminist Art of the 1990s from the Goetz Collection,Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway; travelling to Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The 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, USA Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer,La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy |
| 2002 |
Penetration,Fredrich Petzel / Marianne Boesky Galleries, New York NY, USA 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 NY, USA Moving Pictures,Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain Tempo,MoMA Queens, Long Island City, New York NY, USA 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, USA |
| 2001 |
Ten Photographers,Galleri K, Oslo, Norway American Art from the Goetz Collection,Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic Uniform: Order and Disorder,P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, Long Island City, New York NY, USA Parkett, Collaborations and Editions since 1984,MoMA, New York NY, USA The Glenn Dimplex Artists Award Exhibition 2001,Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Affecting Invention,Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL, USA Public Offerings,Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA Heads and Hands,Decatur House, Washington DC, USA 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 YorkNY, USA Staged, Constructions in Contemporary Photography,Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York NY, USA Recent Acquisitions,Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany MUSEUM,Astrup Fearnley Museet fur Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture,Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL, USA Media_city Seoul 2000,Contemporary Art and Technology Biennial, Seoul, South Korea Voil á: Le monde dans la tëte,Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France What’s New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography,Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA Outbound: Passages from the 90s,Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX, USA |
| 1999 |
The Promise of Photography: Selected Works from the DG Bank Collection,P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York NY, USA |
| 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, Greece Extentions: Aspects of the Figure,The Joseloff Galley, Hartford Art School, Hartford CT, USA |
| 1997 |
De-Genderism,Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan A Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography,Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA; travelled to the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA, USA Sous le Manteau,Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France 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 NY, USA, 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, The Netherlands Defining the Nineties: Consensus-making in New York, Miami and Los Angeles,Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami FL, USA Picasso: a Contemporary Dialogue,Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Salzberg, Austria Passions Privees,Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Faustrect der Freiheit,Neues Museum Weserberg, Bremen, Germany Art at Home, Ideal Standard Life,The Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1995 |
Drawing on Chance: Selections from the Collection,Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA DASAMERICAS II,Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Brasil Ripple Across the Water 95,WATARI-UM Museum of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Biennial Exhibtion, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA ARS ’95,Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland The Masculine Masquerade,MIT List Visual Center, Cambridge MA, USA Altered States: American Art in the 90s,Forum for Contemprorary Art, St. Louis MO, USA |
| 1994 |
Hors Limites,Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Century,Spiral Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Acting Out: The Body in Video, Then and Now,Royal College of Art, London, England Sammlung Volkmann,Berlin, Germany The Ossuary,Luhring Augustine, New York NY, USA Drawing on Sculpture, Cohen Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 1993 |
Exhibtion to Benefit the Mapplethorpe Laboratory for AIDS Research,Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA Aperto ’93, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Biennial Exhibtion,Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue,Fairfield University, Fairfield CT, USA Action/Performance and the Photograph,Turner – Krull Galleries, Los Angeles CA, USA Works on Paper,Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 1992 |
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany Perils et Coleres,capC Musée, Bordeaux, France Post Human,FAE Musée d’Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland; travelled to Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece; Dichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany Matthew Barney, Sam Revels and Nancy Rubins,SteinGladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA Spielhölle,U-Bahn Station, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 1991 |
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA ACT-UP Benefit Art Sale,Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 1990 |
Viral Infection: The Body and its Discontents,Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre, Buffalo NY, USA Group Drawing Exhibition, Althea Viafora, New York NY, USA Gallery Artists, Althea Viafora, New York NY, USA Video Library, Andrea Rosen, New York NY, USA |
Performances
| 2021 |
Catasterism in Three Movements, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2010 |
KHU, October 2, 2010, Detroit MI, USA |
| 2008 | REN, May 18, 2008, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2007 | Guardian of the Veil, "Il Tempo del Postino," July 12-14, 2007, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, England |
Film Screenings
| 2023 |
Redoubt, Film Screening, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, 04 March |
| 2022 |
with Jonathan Bepler, Catasterism, Schaulager, Laurenz Foundation [online] |
| 2021 |
Redoubt in New Horizons International film festival, Wroclaw, Poland Redoubt in MIEFF Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Moscow, Russia Cremaster: 3, Picturehouse Central, London, England; Duke of York’s, Brighton, England; FACT, Liverpool, England; Hackney, London, England; Ritzy, London, England; The Gate, London, England Cremaster: Parts 4, 1, 5 and 2, Duke of York’s, Brighton, England; FACT, Liverpool, England; Hackney, London, England; Ritzy, London, England; The Gate, London, England Cremaster Cycle, Picturehouse Central, London, England |
| 2019 |
River of Fundament, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France, 22 September Redoubt, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT, USA, 02, 07, 09, 16, 20, 23, 30 March and 06, 13, 20, 24, 27 April |
| 2018 | The Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi City, Japan, 03 March |
| 2017 |
The Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan River of Fundament, A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Sonica Festival, Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland River of Fundament, A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil The Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), Flatpack Festival, Birmingham, England |
| 2016 |
River of Fundament, A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis TN, USA DRAWING RESTRAINT,Cinemateket, Oslo, Norway River of Fundament, A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio OH, USA River of Fundament, A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Music Box Chicago, Illinois IL, USA River of Fundament, A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Dryden Theatre, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York NY, USA River of Fundament, A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico River of Fundament,A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico River of Fundament,A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, New Zealand Festival, Wellington, New Zealand |
| 2015 |
The Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), The Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA River of Fundament,A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece River of Fundament,A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2014 |
River of Fundament,A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Tasmania, Australia River of Fundament,A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Festival D’Automne Paris, Paris, France River of Fundament,A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Ruhrtriennale, Lichtburg Essen, Essen, Germany River of Fundament,A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Vienna Festival, Vienna, Austria River of Fundament,A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland River of Fundament,A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Film Theatre, Detroit MI, USA River of Fundament,A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Luminato Festival, Elgin Theatre, Toronto, Canada River of Fundament,A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Art Basel, Theater Basel Grosse Bühne, Basel, Switzerland River of Fundament,A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Holland Festival, EYE Film Instituut Nederland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands River of Fundament,A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, UK premiere, in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, English National Opera, London, England The Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002),Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England River of Fundament,a film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, European Premiere, in collaboration with Haus der Kunst, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Germany River of Fundament, World Premiere, A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, BAM Harvey Theater, Brooklyn NY, USA |
Talks
| 2019 |
Redoubt: An Evening with Matthew Barney, Morgan Library & Museum, New York NY, USA Responding to Redoubt by Sandra Lamouche and Molleen Theodore, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT, USA Responding to Redoubt by Eleanor Bauer and Molleen Theodore, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT, USA Heavy Metal: Installing Redoubt by Andrew Daubar and Anne Gunnison, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT, USA Presenting Redoubt by Pamela Franks, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT, USA Matthew Barney in conversation with Pamela Franks, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT, USA |
Awards
| 2010 | Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award, 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival |
| 2007 | Kaiser Ring Award |
| 2001 | 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, San Francisco CA, USA |
| 1996 | Hugo Boss Award,Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA |
| 1993 |
Europa 2000 Prize,Aperto ’93, XLV Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |