About Matthew Barney

Matthew Barney, Drawing Restraint II (1988). Photograph: Michael Rees. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery © Matthew Barney

Matthew Barney is an American artist who works in performance, film, sculpture and drawing. He has had solo exhibitions at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center and the Serpentine Gallery, London as well as regularly showing as part of group exhibitions internationally since graduating from Yale University in 1989. He was awarded the Europa 2000 Prize, the Hugo Boss Award in 1996, the James D. Phelan Art Award in Video in 1999 and the Glen Dimplex Award from the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2001. The complete archive of Barney's Drawing Restraints - a series for which he was awarded the Aperto prize at the Venice Biennale in 1993 - has recently been acquired jointly by the Museum of Modern Art in New York the Laurenz Foundation in Basel, Switzerland.