MATTHEW BARNEY
Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2024
We congratulate Matthew Barney on becoming an Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Matthew Barney has been elected into the Department of Arts and will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters during its annual Ceremonial in May 2024.
American Academy of Arts and Letters
MATTHEW BARNEY et al.
Something in the Water (group show)
MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
18 April – 17 August 2025
Matthew Barney is featured in the MAXXI Museum’s exhibition, Something in the Water, curated by artist Oscar Tuazon. The exhibition marks a new chapter in Tuazon’s Water School project, an artistic and educational initiative which explores the dynamics and politics related to land, water, and infrastructure. Through the work of fifteen artists, the exhibition explores water as a theme which connects artistic practices of different generations and origins: it is an ever-evolving territory that belongs to everyone and no one.
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A Kind of Language: Storyboards and Other Renderings for Cinema (group show)
Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milan
30 January – 8 September 2025
Matthew Barney’s work is presented in A Kind of Language: Storyboards and Other Renderings for Cinema at the Fondazione Prada, Milan. Curated by Melissa Harris, the exhibition sheds light on the complex creative process behind filmmaking by exploring intrinsic materials such as drawings and sketches, storyboards and mood boards, scrapbooks and notebooks, annotated scripts, and photos. Set in the spaces of the Osservatorio, the project comprises more than 800 works created from the late 1920s to 2024, by over 50 visual artists, film directors, cinematographers, graphic designers, animators, choreographers, and other collaborators on film and video production.
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