# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthew-barney
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:21.642Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthew-barney"
name: "Matthew Barney"
slug: "matthew-barney"
description: "Matthew Barney is an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing. His works explore connections among geography, biology, geology and mythology as well as notable themes of sex, intercourse, the human body, and conflict. His early pieces were sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002, he created The Cremaster Cycle, a series of five films described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as \"one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema.\" He is also known for his projects Drawing Restraint 9 (2005), River of Fundament (2014) and Redoubt (2018)."
tagline: "American sculptor and filmmaker (born 1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matthew_Barney_in_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1967-03-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump