9 of 12 short artists - Matthew Barney

Matthew Barney born on March 25, 1967 is an American artist. He is a versatile artist that does pieces of art work in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. He first started doing work were he combined sculptural installations with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002 he created the Cremaster Cycle, which was a five film series described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as "one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema."

^{Drawing Restraint is an ongoing work. So basically what it is, is the body's muscle only grows with resistance. The body encounters resistance and the muscle breaks becomes stronger when it heals. So Barney created a film of this resistance occurring when he works on a piece.}