Matthew Barney (1967, San Francisco) is an artist whose work encompasses film, performance, sculpture, photography, and drawing. He is celebrated for his feature-length cinematic work, including River of Fundament (2014) and Redoubt (2019). Recently, he debuted his video installation Secondary (2023) in a sequence of exhibitions including drawing and sculptures. Barney works with materials ranging from petroleum jelly to ceramic, creating objects and installations that are intrinsically linked to his cinematic world. Recent projects include TACTICAL parallax, Aspen Art Museum, 2025; and Repressia (decline), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2023. Barney lives and works in New York.

As of September 2025