Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco in 1967 and lives and works in New York. Barney's most recent project, Redoubt, premiered at the Yale University Art Gallery on 1 March 2019, and is currently on view at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China through 12 January 2020. Additional one-person exhibitions include: THE CREMASTER CYCLE, organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and traveled to Museum Ludwig, Cologne and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; DRAWING RESTRAINT, organised by the 21st Century Museum for Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan and traveled to Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Serpentine Gallery, London; and Kunsthalle Vienna; and RIVER OF FUNDAMENT, organized by Haus der Kunst, Munich and travelled to The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Barney has received numerous awards including the Aperto prize at the 1993 Venice Biennale; the Hugo Boss Award in 1996; the 2007 Kaiser Ring Award in Goslar, Germany and the San Francisco International Film Festival's Persistence of Vision Award in 2011.
