MATTHEW BARNEY Matthew Barney (born in 1967, San Francisco) works with film, video installations, sculpture, photography and drawing. New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman called Barney "the most important American artist of his generation." Barney spent his youth partially in Idaho, where he played football on Capital High School's team and gave a graduation speech about sperm, and partially in New York City with his mother, who introduced him to art and museums. This intermingling of sports and art would inspire his later work as an artist. The film series The Cremaster Cycle is Barney's best-known work. De Lama Lamina premiered in September 2004. In 2006, he released Drawing Restraint 9, a collaboration with his girlfriend Björk, with whom he has one daughter, Ísadóra, born October 3 2002. More: www.cremaster.net