Bill Viola

Birthday: 1951-01-25
Birthplace: Queens, New York, USA
Gender: Male

A pioneer in the medium of video art, Bill Viola's work explores the spiritual and perceptual side of human experience. Since 1970 he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances and pieces for television. Works include Hatsu Yume (First Dream), The Passing, and installations Room for St. John of the Cross, The Messenger and The Quintet of the Astonished, recently shown at the National Gallery, London in "Encounters, New Art from Old". A 25-year survey exhibition of his work organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art recently traveled to 6 institutions in the USA and Europe. MacArthur Fellow.

Credits

Year Title
The Crossing
2018-09-11 Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
2016-09-16 Mary
2014-06-29 Martyrs: Earth
2014-05-05 Martyrs: Water
2014-04-08 Martyrs: Fire
2014-03-05 Martyrs: Air
2014-01-05 Martyrs
2014-01-01 Inverted Birth
2013-01-01 Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity
2013-01-01 The Dreamers
2012-12-11 The Encounter
2012-04-04 Walking on the Edge
2012-01-01 Traveling on Foot
2011-08-06 A Phrase from Chris
2008-08-08 The Innocents
2008-01-01 Three Women
2007-01-01 Ocean Without a Shore
2006-01-01 Poem B (The Guest House)
2005-10-04 Basin of Tears
2005-07-10 Ablutions
2005-01-01 Fire Woman
2005-01-01 Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
2004-12-03 The Tristan Project
2004-05-01 The Raft
2003-01-01 Emergence
2002-02-09 Fire Birth
2002-02-08 The Path
2002-02-07 The Voyage
2002-01-01 Going Forth By Day
2001-07-11 Four Hands
2001-01-30 Catherine's Room
2001-01-01 Surrender
2000-07-13 The Quintet of the Astonished
2000-05-30 Anima
2000-01-01 Eternal Return
2000-01-01 Ascension
1996-07-01 The Crossing
1995-06-10 The Veiling
1995-06-10 Interval
1995-01-01 The Greeting
1994-10-01 Déserts
1992-01-31 The Passing
1992-01-01 Slowly Turning Narrative
1992-01-01 The Nantes Triptych
1992-01-01 Heaven and Earth
1992-01-01 The Sleepers
1990-12-01 The Stopping Mind
1989-01-01 Angel's Gate
1986-08-06 Sodium Vapor
1986-06-12 I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
1986-04-16 Silent Life
1984-01-01 Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers
1983-08-06 Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
1983-01-01 Anthem
1982-10-12 Ancient of Days
1981-01-01 Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
1980-04-16 Vegetable Memory
1979-12-05 The Reflecting Pool
1979-04-16 Moonblood
1979-01-01 Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
1979-01-01 Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979
1977-05-15 Memories Of Ancestral Power
1977-01-01 The Wheel of Becoming
1977-01-01 The Morning After the Night of Power
1977-01-01 Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
1977-01-01 Sweet Light
1977-01-01 He Weeps for You
1976-08-06 Truth Through Mass Individuation
1976-08-06 The Space Between the Teeth
1976-08-06 Four Songs
1976-08-06 Junkyard Levitation
1976-08-06 Songs of Innocence
1976-01-01 Migration (for Jack Nelson)
1975-09-04 A Non-Dairy Creamer
1975-09-04 Playing Soul Music to My Freckles
1975-09-04 A Million Other Things (2)
1975-09-04 Red Tape: Collected Works
1975-09-04 Return
1975-09-04 The Semi-Circular Canals
1973-01-01 Information