When Barney was twelve his parents divorced and his mother moved to New York City. He recognized that his early involvement in team sports influenced the collaborative nature of his artistic practice. During high school, Barney excelled at sports and made the wrestling and football teams. ![]() ![]() The family lived in San Francisco until Matthew was seven years old and then moved to Boise, Idaho. Barney is a strong advocate of collaboration (which he attributes to his early success in team sports), but the fact that he avoids self-publicity and unnecessary media attention (unlike Damien Hirst to whom he is sometimes compared) has added to his substantial cult following.īarney's mother was Marsha Gibney, a painter specializing in what she called "biomorphic abstraction". ![]() Barney's work, which provokes psychological fantasies that many find deeply challenging, is dense with references to training camps and medical apparatus, allusions to anatomical movement, the history of art, and the iconography, history, and mythology of ancient cultures. ![]() His works, which blend Video Art, Performance Art, and sculptural installations, are concerned with physical movement (sport and choreographed dance) and they carry deep thematic undercurrents of sexual and bodily excess. One of the most important figures in the contemporary art world, and known primarily for large-scale film projects, including his career-defining Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), Barney has proved one of the most daring and ambitious American artists to gain fame from the late-twentieth-century onward.
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