MATTHEW BARNEY
Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2024
We congratulate Matthew Barney on becoming an Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Matthew Barney has been elected into the Department of Arts and will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters during its annual Ceremonial in May 2024.
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MATTHEW BARNEY
SECONDARY (publication)
Published by Rizzoli Electa
SECONDARY is a five-channel video installation by Matthew Barney, performed in the artist’s Long Island City studio in 2023, then in London, Paris, and Los Angeles in 2024. The plot revolves around an accident that occurred during a football game in 1978, when Oakland Raiders’ Jack Tatum delivered an open field hit on Darryl Stingley, a wide receiver for the New England Patriots. Stingley was left paralysed. The tragic event remained seared in the minds of American fans, including Barney himself, a youth-league quarterback at the time.
Through allusion to American sports culture, SECONDARY explores the complex intersection of violence, its representation, and its celebration. It reimagines the game through a unique movement vocabulary. The result is a physical study that focuses on every element of the game, from drills and pre-game rituals to moments of impact and their slow-motion replays.
Volume 1 explores SECONDARY in depth, with essays by leading contemporary voices. Volume 2 maps the life of Barney’s former Long Island City studio, where SECONDARY premiered to the public.
Contributions by Eric Banks, Jonathan Bepler, Raven Chacon, Mark Godfrey, Juliette Lecorne, Helen Marten, Maggie Nelson, and David Thomson
Author: Matthew Barney
Edited by Louise Neri
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MATTHEW BARNEY, RAYMOND HAINS et al.
Exposition générale (group show)
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
25 October 2025 – 23 August 2026
Work by Matthew Barney and Raymond Hains will feature in the group show Exposition générale, at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, from 25 October. Exhibiting works from their extensive collection, Exposition générale showcases both the Fondation Cartier’s artistic identity and its legacy, presenting nearly six hundred works by more than one hundred artists who have participated in its programming from 1984 to the present day.
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MATTHEW BARNEY, RAYMOND HAINS, MATTHEW BARNEY, URS FISCHER et al.
Natural Mystics (group show)
The Warehouse Dallas Art Foundation
27 September 2025 – 31 January 2026
Work by Matthew Barney and Urs Fischer is featured in the group show Natural Mystics at The Warehouse Dallas Art Foundation. Across a variety of media, the artists in the exhibition reckon with the world on different terms: intuitive, embodied, non-linear, organic. Their works acts not as a mirror held to the world, but a portal by which ideas can pass through and be changed.
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