About Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing. His works explore connections among geography, biology, geology and mythology as well as notable themes of sex, intercourse, the human body, and conflict. His early pieces were sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002, he created The Cremaster Cycle, a series of five films described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as "one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema." He is also known for his projects Drawing Restraint 9 (2005), River of Fundament (2014) and Redoubt (2018). == Early life, family and education == Matthew Barney was born March 25, 1967, as the younger of two children in San Francisco, California, where he lived until he was seven years old. He resided in Boise, Idaho from 1973 to 1985, where his father got a job administering a catering service at Boise State University and where he attended elementary, middle, and high school. His parents divorced, and his mother, an abstract painter, relocated to New York City, where he would frequently visit. It was there where he was first introduced to the art scene. Barney was recruited by Yale University in 1985 to play football; planned to study pre-med, but he also intended to study art. In 1989, he graduated from Yale.
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