Matthew Barney

Matthew Barney is an American contemporary artist who works with film, video, installations, sculpture, photography, drawing and performance art. Barney has described himself as being primarily a sculptor.New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman called Barney "the most important American artist of his generation." Barney's work has been described as being part of "the legacy of the performance art of the 1960s and 1970s."

Barney lives with his partner, Icelandic singer Björk and their young daughter, Ísadóra, born October 3, 2002.