马修·巴尼1967年出生于美国旧金山,现工作和生活于纽约。马修·巴尼在世界各地艺术机构举办过展览,其中包括:慕尼黑艺术之家、澳大利亚塔斯马尼亚的古今艺术博物馆、洛杉矶当代艺术博物馆、纽约所罗门·R·古根海姆博物馆、科隆路德维希博物馆、巴黎现代艺术博物馆、日本金泽当代艺术博物馆、韩国首尔三星美术馆、旧金山现代艺术博物馆、伦敦蛇形画廊、维也纳艺术馆和瑞士巴塞尔的Schaulager / Laurenz基金会。马修·巴尼亦获得过众多奖项,其中包括1993年威尼斯双年展Aperto奖、1996年Hugo Boss奖、2007年德国戈斯拉尔的凯撒林奖和2011年旧金山国际电影节Persistence of Vision奖。
Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco in 1967 and lives and works in New York. Exhibitions include: Haus der Kunst, Munich; The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Museum for Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Serpentine Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Vienna, and Schaulager/Laurenz Foundation, Basel, Switzerland. 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.