MATTHEW BARNEY
Matthew Barney (b. 1967) is known for his innovative and broad-ranging practice encompassing film, performance, sculpture, photography and drawing. Celebrated for his feature-length cinematic work, including the seminal Cremaster Cycle (1994–2002), River of Fundament (2014) and Redoubt (2019), the artist creates fantastical universes which challenge the limits and politics of gender, sexuality and codified beliefs.
Describing himself primarily as a sculptor, Barney works with materials stretching from petroleum jelly to bronze, creating objects and installations that are intrinsically linked to his cinematic world. Barney’s drawings mark both the beginning and end of his filmic projects, existing as preparatory sketches and as reflective recollections of internal states. The closely interrelated elements of his oeuvre form the parts of a mythological Gesamtkunstwerk, addressing questions of life and death, the natural world and industrial transformation, the cosmic and terrestrial.
‘Over the last twenty-seven years Matthew Barney has produced some of the most accomplished, demanding, and distinctive bodies of work in contemporary art. A leading artist of his generation, he is a visionary figure whose complex and radical forms have generated an entirely new artistic vocabulary that is as unique as it is protean. At the root of his provocative art is an examination of physical and biological systems as a portal to the psychic, symbolic, mythological, occult, and archetypal dimensions of human experience and consciousness.’
O. Enwezor, ‘Portals and Processions: Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament’, in Matthew Barney: River of Fundament, exh. cat., Haus der Kunst, Munich; New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2014, p. 232
Image: Orange Lupine, 2021, graphite and gouache on paper in high-density polyethylene frame, 33 x 38.1 x 3.2 cm.; 13 x 15 x 1 1/4 in. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging Inc.
Selected Works
Solo Exhibitions
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1967
Born in San Francisco, USA
1989
BA Yale University, New Haven CT
1993
Europa 2000 Prize, Aperto '93, 45th Venice Biennale
1996
Hugo Boss Prize, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1999
James D. Phelan Art Award in Video, Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco Foundation
2002
Glen Dimplex Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2007
Kaiser Ring Award, Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar
2011
Golden Gale Persistence of Vision Award, 54th San Francisco International Film Festival
2024
Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Lives and works in New York, USA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Glenstone, Potomac
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Ludwig Museum, Cologne
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main
Pérez Art Museum, Miami
Tate, London
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Zabludowicz Collection, London
PERFORMANCES
2010
KHU
2 October, 2010, Detroit
2008
REN
18 May, 2008, Los Angeles
2007
Guardian of the Veil, "Il Tempo del Postino"
12–14 July, 2007, Manchester International Festival
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
SECONDARY: object impact
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
2023
REPRESSIA (decline)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
SECONDARY
Matthew Barney Studio, New York
2022
Matthew Barney, Carolee Schneemann, Kazuo Shiraga, Min Tanaka
Fergus McCaffrey, New York
Drawing Restraint
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2021
After Ruby Ridge
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Redoubt
Hayward Gallery, London, travelled from:
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing;
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (catalogue)
2020
Cosmic Hunt
Sadie Coles HQ, London
2019
Embrasure
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Redoubt
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, travelled to:
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing;
Hayward Gallery, London (catalogue)
2016
Facility of DECLINE
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Bildungsroman
Astrup Gearnley Museet, Oslo
Drawing Restraint
Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington
2015
WATER CASTINGS: Fourteen Pieces
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
River of Fundament
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, travelled from:
The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart;
Haus der Kunst, Munich
2014
Crown Zinc
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Drawing Restraint
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
River of Fundament
Haus der Kunst, Munich, travelled to:
The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart;
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2013
Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, travelled to:
BnF Bibliothek Nationale de France, Paris
2011
DJED
Gladstone Gallery, New York
2010
Prayer Sheet with the Wound and the Nail
Schaulager, Basel
Sadie Coles HQ, London
2009
Ancient Evenings: Libretto
Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
2008
Contemporary Mythologies
Fondazione Merz, Turin
Drawing Restraint
Kunsthalle Wien, travelled from:
Serpentine Gallery, London
2007
Drawing from the Guardian of the Veil
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Verein zur Förderung Moderner Kunst e.V., Goslar
Drawing Restraint New Sun
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Drawing Restraint
Serpentine Gallery, London, travelled to:
Kunsthalle Wien
2006
The Occidental Guest
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint 9 Storyboards
John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York
Drawing Restraint
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, travelled from:
21st Century Museum of Contempory Art, Kanazawa;
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Pace Car for the Hubris Pill
Kunsthalle Bern, travelled from:
Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux;
Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (catalogue)
2005
Drawing Restraint
21st Century Museum of Contempory Art, Kanazawa, travelled to:
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Franciso
2003
Matthew Barney in the Living Art Museum
Living Art Museum (Nýlistasafnið), Reykjavik
CREMASTER I
Boise Art Museum, Boise
The CREMASTER Cycle
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
The CREMASTER Cycle
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York , travelled from:
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris;
Museum Ludwig, Cologne (catalogue)
2002
The CREMASTER Cycle
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, travelled to:
Museum Ludwig, Cologne;
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)
2000
CREMASTER 2: The Drones' Explosion
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
CREMASTER 5
Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland
1999
CREMASTER 2: The Drones' Exposition
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, travelled to:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1998
March with the Anal Sadistic Warrior
KunstKanaal, Amsterdam
CREMASTER 5
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
CREMASTER 5
la Caixa Foundation, Barcelona
CREMASTER 1
Öffentliche Kunstmuseum Basel
1997
CREMASTER 5
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
CREMASTER 5
Portikus, Frankfurt/Main
CREMASTER 1
Kunsthalle Wien
1996
Transexualis and REPRESSIA; CREMASTER 1 and CREMASTER 4
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1995
CREMASTER 4
Artangel, London
Pace Car for the Hubris Pill
Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, travelled to:
Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux; Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (catalogue)
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Matthew Barney: OTTOshaft
Tate Britain, London
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris
1994
Portraits from CREMASTER 4
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
1991
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles
Matthew Barney: New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1989
Field Dressing
Payne Whitney Athletic Complex, Yale University, New Haven
1988
Scab Action, Video exhibition for the New York City Rainforst Alliance
Open Centre, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Postcard Kilometer: Artists’ Cards in Europe from 1960 to Today
Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden
Holly Village
Hems Gallery and Derosia Gallery, New York
Technocool: New Trends in Hungarian Art of the Nineties (1989–2001)
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Au bout de mes rêves
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Tripostal, Lille
Baroque
Galerie Champ Lacombe, Biarritz
Before Tomorrow – Astrup Fearnley Museet 30 Years
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
“Ringe sind’s, die eine Kette machen” Neuerwerbungen und Sammlungsbestände der Goslarer Kaiserringträger_innen
Mönchehaus Museum Goslar
Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut
2022
START
Start Museum, Shanghai
Future Bodies from a Recent Past – Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s
Museum Brandhorst, Munich
We Get to Choose Our Families
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
A Divided Landscape
The Momentary, Arkansas
REPEATER
Sadie Coles HQ, London
The Howard and Judie Ganek Collection
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
You Only Live Twice
Galerie Max Weber Six Friedrich, Munich
2021
Drawings with Graphite
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Human, 7 questions
Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul
Before the Cockerel Crows
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
American Art: From Andy Warhol to Kara Walker
Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze (catalogue)
2020
Drawing 2020
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Savage Topology
Museo Jumex, Mexico City
2019
Up to and Including Limits: After Carolee Schneemann
Muzeum Susch, Zernez
Desire: A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Opera as the World. The Quest for a Total Work of Art
Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz
If the Snake
Okayoma Triennale Art Summit, Okayama
Drawn Together Again
FLAG Art Foundation, New York
2018
The Elephant in the Room – Sculptures of the Marx Collection
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Curtain – Vorhang
Bildraum Bodensee, Bregenz
Au Diapason du Monde
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
BioPerversity
Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
2017
The Everywhere Studio
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami
Clouds ⇄ Forests
7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Again and Again
Haus der Kunst, Munich
What I Loved: Selected Works from The '90s
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2016
Flying over the Abyss
Athens Conservatoire, Athens
Body Extensions: Prosthetics and Sculpture
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Winter in America
Jack Shainman Gallery: The School, Kinderhook, New York
Hey You! ~ Who Me?
Yale Art Gallery, New Haven
2015
All The World's a Stage
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Future Present
Schaulager Münchenstein
Partial Presence
Zabludowicz Collection, London
HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
The University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor
A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection
The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
La La La Human Steps
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
America is Hard to See
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Flying over the Abyss
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Crete
Winter in America
Jack Shainman Gallery: The Shop, New York
Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim
Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York
The Articulated Void
The PostContemporary, Troy, New York
2014
Manifest Intention. Drawing in All its Forms
Castello di Rivoli, Torino
Man in the Mirror
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
A Thousand Doors
Gennadius Library and Grounds, American School of Classical Studies, Athens
Not For All My Little Words
Marc Straus, New York
Philippe Parreno – Dessins
Cahiers d'Art, Paris
A Very Short History of Contemporary Sculpture
Philips, London
Love Story-Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection
Winter Palace and 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna
A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection
The Contemporary Austin, Austin
A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio
Museum of Modern Art, New York
2013
Legacy: Photographs From the Emily Fisher Landau Collection
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
Aquatopia
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
Gironcoli: context
Belvedere, Vienna
Altars of Madness
Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg, travelled to:
Confort Moderne, Poitiers
Expo 1: New York
MoMA PS1, New York, travelled to:
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
12th Lyon Biennial
Lyon
Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
New Museum, New York
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years
Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, travelled from:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2012
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
The Studio: Workshop and Myth
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Der Nackte Mann
Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz
Battleground States
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City
To Be with Art Is All We Ask
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, travelled to:
Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
The Circus as a Parallel Universe
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Topsy Turvy
de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam
American Exuberance
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
2011
In the Name of the Artists: American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection
Bienal Pavillion, São Paulo
Perspectives – On the Borders of Art and Philosophy
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Silent Echoes – Collection 1
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
The Luminous Interval
Solomon R. Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
Oceanomania
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
Black Swan
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2010
Robert Mapplethorpe: Night Work
Alison Jacques Gallery, London
Houdini: Art and Magic
The Jewish Museum, New York, travelled to:
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Accessories to An Artwork
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York
Sweat
Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad
Do Redo Undo
Wiels Museum, Brussels
Focus on Artists: 75th Anniversary
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Collecting Biennials
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Hard Targets
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection
New Museum, New York
Sexuality and Trascendence
Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Kiev
2009
Nine New Destinations
Inhotim Cultural Institute, Brumadino
100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009)
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
BAROCK
MADRE Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples
Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Cella
Complesso Monumentale di San Michele a Ripa, Rome
Bad Habits
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Chelsea Visits Havana
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
Rotating Views #1
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
1992009
D'Amelio Terras, New York
Blood of Two: Matthew Barney & Elizabeth Peyton
Slaughterhouse, Deste Foundation Project Space, Hydra
Yokohoma Triennial: Time Crevasse
Yokohama
Here Is Every: Four Decades of Contemporary Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Meet Me Around the Corner – Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Under Pain of Death
Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
Las Implicaciones de la Imagen
Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City
2007
Sculptors Drawing
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
I Am As You Will Be: The Skeleton in Art
Chim & Read, New York
Role Exchange
Sean Kelly, New York
II Tempo del Postino
Manchester International Festival, Manchester
Concept: Photography – Dialogues & Attitudes
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Cologne
Artist Moving Image
Bath Film Festival, Bath
Mythos
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
Prison
Bloomberg SPACE, London
Lights Camera Action: Artist's Film for the Cinema
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Narcissus Faces
Cook Fine Art, New York
Speed 1
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia
All in the Present Must Be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, travelled to:
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
2006
Not All Is Visible: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
All in the Present Must Be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, travelled to:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Defamation of Character
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
The Eighth Square
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
The Guggenheim Collection
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Film, Music and Video
Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
Human Game
Stazione Leopolda, Florence
Surprise, Surprise
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Into Me/Out of Me
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, travelled to:
Kunstwerke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Having New Eyes
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
What Makes You and I Different
Tramway 2/Project Room, Glasgow
Figures in the Field: Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Thank You For the Music
Galerie Sprüth Magers, Munich
Dark Places
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica
2005
11th BIM Biennial of Moving Images
Centre pour l'Image contemporaine, Paris
Bidibidobidiboo: Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection
Turin
(My Private) Heroes
Marta Herford, Herford
Work Time/Material Time/Life Time
Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri
Quartet: Barney, Gober, Levine, Walker
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2004
Klütterkammer: An Exhibition by John Bock
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Working Editions: An Exploration of Art and Function
Fine Art in Space, New York
Il Bello e le bestie
Museum d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento
Love/Hate From Magritte to Cattelan: Masterpieces from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Villa Manin Center of Contemporary Art, Passariano, Udine
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 Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2003
Perfect Innocence: The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection
Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, travelled to:
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth
Picturing the Artist: Photography from the MCA Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Just Love Me: Post-Feminist Art of the 1990s from the Goetz Collection
Bregenz Art Museum, Bregenz, travelled to:
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
Fast Forward: Media Art / Sammlung Goetz
Center for Arts and Media, Karlsruhe
Silver
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria
Storytelling
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer
La Bienniale di Venezia, Venice
2002
Penetration
Friedrich Petzel and Marianne Boesky, New York
Shortcuts: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection
Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia
Arte Cotemporáneo Internacional
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Hautnah: The Goetz Collection
Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Moving Pictures
Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, travelled to:
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
Tempo
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Sand in der Vaseline: Künstlerbücher II: 1980–2000
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
Life Death Love Hate Pleasure Pain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2001
Ten Photographers
Galleri K, Oslo
American Art from the Goetz Collection
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
Uniform: Order and Disorder
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Parkett, Collaborations and Editions since 1984
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Glen Dimplex Artists Award Exhibition 2001
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Affecting Invention
Carrie Secrist, Chicago
Public Offerings
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Heads and Hands
Decatur House, Washington D.C.
Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950–2000. From Dali to Koons
Kunsthaus Zürich
Arte Contemporaneo Internacional
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
2000
Matthew Barney, Jennifer Pastor, Charles Ray
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Staged: Constructions in Contemporary Photography
Bonakdar Jancou, New York
Recent Acquisitions
Kunstwerke, Berlin
MUSEUM
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
media_city seoul 2000
Contemporary Art and Technology Biennial Seoul, Seoul
Voilà: Le monde dans la tête
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
1999
Carnegie International
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Regarding Beauty
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
The Promise of Photography: Selected Works from the DG Bank Collection
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
1998
Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Scratches on the Surface of Things
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Die Rache der Veronika
Die Fotosammlung Lambert, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Emotion: Young British and American Art from the Goetz Collection
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
+Zone
Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d'Alba
Global Vision, New Art from the 90s – with new acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection
Deste Foundation, Athens
Extensions: Aspects of the Figure
The Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford
1997
De-Genderism
Setagaza Art Museum, Tokyo
A Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, travelled to:
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Sous le Manteau
Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Loco-Motion
Cinema Accademia Dorsoduro, Venice
Biennale de Lyon, Lyon
1996
Hugo Boss Prize Exhibition
Guggenheim SoHo, New York
10th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Matthew Barney, Tony Oursler and Jeff Wall
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Foreign Body
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Hybrids
de Appel Arts Centre, 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, Salzburg
Passions Privees
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Faustrecht der Freiheit
Neues Museum Weserberg, Bremen
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
Museo de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo
Ripple Across the Water 95
Wateri-um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Biennial Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
ARS '95
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
The Masculine Masquerade
List Visual Art Center, Cambridge
Altered States: American Art in The 90s
Forum For Contemporary Art, St. Louis
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
Exhibition to Benefit the Mapplethorpe Laboratory for AIDS Research
Barbara Galdstone Gallery, New York
Aperto '93
45th Venice Biennale, Venice
Biennial Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue
Fairfield University, Fairfield
Action/Performance and the Photograph
Turner-Krull, Los Angeles
Works on Paper
Paula Cooper, New York
1992
Documenta 9, Kassel
Périls et Colères
capC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
Post Human
FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, travelled to:
Castello di Rivoli;
Deste Foundation, Athens;
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Matthew Barney, Sam Reveles, and Nancy Rubins
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Spielhölle
U-Bahn Station, Frankfurt/Main
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 Center, Buffalo, New York
Group Drawing Exhibition
Althea Viafora, New York
Gallery Artists
Althea Viafora, New York
Video Library
Andrea Rosen, New York
Videos
Publications
Matthew Barney: Redoubt
Film Poster
2021
€ 20.00
Matthew Barney: After Ruby Ridge
Exhibition Poster
2021
€ 20.00
Matthew Barney: From Mud, A Blade, 2006. Edition No. 37
Matthew Barney: From Mud, A Blade, 2006. Edition No. 37
Edition of 100
€ 60.00
Selected Press
ArtReview September 2023
The New York Times May 2023
The Art Newspaper May 2023
BLAU International October 2021
Los Angeles Times January 2020
The Art Newspaper November 2019
Artforum March 2019
The Guardian June 2014
Modern Painters April 2014
The Paris Review February 2014
032c Summer 2010
Kaiserring Publications September 2007
ARTnews June 2006
The Brooklyn Rail 2003
The New York Times Magazine October 1999
Parkett 1995
