Matthew Barney (b. 1967) is one of America's most significant living artists; over the past two decades he has evolved a practice that encompasses filmmaking, performance, drawing, painting, and sculpture. Current and recent major exhibitions include River of Fundament, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2014, touring to the Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, November 2014 — April 2015; and Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2013, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2013-2014. His solo exhibition The Cremaster Cycle, organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, travelled to the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and the Musée d'Art Moder ne de la Ville de Paris. The large-scale exhibition of the entire Drawing Restraint series was organised by the 21st Century Museum for Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and travelled to Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Serpentine Gallery, London; and Kunsthalle Vienna. He has received numerous awards including the Aperto prize at the 1993 Venice Biennale and the 1996 Hugo Boss Aw ard. The artist lives and works in New York
