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.
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Male
1951-01-25
Queens, New York, USA
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The Voyage
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
Return
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart
The Reflecting Pool
Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's
What Is Cinema?
Going Forth By Day
Processing the Signal
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
Trovoada
The Deluge
The Stopping Mind
The Passing
Moonblood
Vegetable Memory
Silent Life
Slowly Turning Narrative
Memories Of Ancestral Power
Anthem
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
The Veiling
Ancient of Days
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
The Nantes Triptych
The Raft
The Greeting
Fire Woman
A Phrase from Chris
Truth Through Mass Individuation
The Space Between the Teeth
Songs of Innocence
Junkyard Levitation
Four Songs
Sodium Vapor
Playing Soul Music to My Freckles So They Won't Get Lonely
A Non-Dairy Creamer
The Semi-Circular Canals
A Million Other Things (2)
Red Tape: Collected Works
Déserts
Heaven and Earth
Surrender
Inverted Birth
Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity
Three Women
The Dreamers
The Tristan Project
Fire Birth
The Path
The Crossing
Sweet Light
Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
The Wheel of Becoming
Angel's Gate
The Morning After the Night of Power
Martyrs
He Weeps for You
Ocean Without a Shore
Eternal Return
Mary
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Ascension
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
Emergence
The Encounter
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers
Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979
The Sleepers
The Crossing
Information
Catherine's Room
Anima
Four Hands
The Quintet of the Astonished
Ablutions
Walking on the Edge
Martyrs: Earth
Martyrs: Air
Martyrs: Fire
Martyrs: Water
Basin of Tears
The Innocents
Traveling on Foot
Interval
Poem B (The Guest House)
The Silent Sea