Name
Bill Viola
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1951-01-25 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Queens, New York, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
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Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchc...
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Viola's seminal piece, The Reflecting Pool, was made three decades ago on analogue video t...
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Internationally acclaimed and award-winning video installation artist Bill Viola juxtapose...
- 2002 The Voyage as Gatekeeper
- 1983 Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
- 1975 Return
- 1986 I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like as Himself
- 2003 Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart as Self
- 1979 The Reflecting Pool as Performer
- 2017 Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's as Self
- 2013 What Is Cinema? as Self
- 2002 Going Forth By Day as (segment "The Voyage")
- Soon Processing the Signal as Himself
- 1976 Migration (for Jack Nelson)
- 1995 Trovoada as Self (voice)
- Soon The Deluge
