Bill Viola
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 25, 1951
- Died
- July 12, 2024 (aged 73)
- Birthplace
- 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
What Is Cinema?
The Reflecting Pool
The Passing
Ancient of Days
Anthem
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart
Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's
Filmography
The Crossing
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The Deluge
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
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Mary
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Inverted Birth
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Martyrs
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Martyrs: Water
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Martyrs: Earth
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Martyrs: Air
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Martyrs: Fire
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Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity
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The Dreamers
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The Encounter
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Walking on the Edge
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Traveling on Foot
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A Phrase from Chris
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Three Women
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The Innocents
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Ocean Without a Shore
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Poem B (The Guest House)
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Fire Woman
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Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
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Ablutions
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Basin of Tears
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The Tristan Project
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The Raft
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Emergence
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Going Forth By Day
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Fire Birth
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The Path
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The Voyage
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The Silent Sea
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Surrender
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Catherine's Room
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Four Hands
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Eternal Return
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Ascension
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Anima
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The Quintet of the Astonished
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The Crossing
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The Veiling
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The Greeting
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Interval
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Déserts
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The Passing
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Slowly Turning Narrative
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The Nantes Triptych
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Heaven and Earth
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The Sleepers
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The Stopping Mind
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Angel's Gate
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Silent Life
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I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
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Sodium Vapor
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Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers
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Anthem
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Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
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Ancient of Days
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Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
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Vegetable Memory
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Moonblood
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Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
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The Reflecting Pool
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Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979
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Memories Of Ancestral Power
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The Wheel of Becoming
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The Morning After the Night of Power
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Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
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Sweet Light
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He Weeps for You
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Migration (for Jack Nelson)
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Truth Through Mass Individuation
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The Space Between the Teeth
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Four Songs
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Junkyard Levitation
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Songs of Innocence
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A Non-Dairy Creamer
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Playing Soul Music to My Freckles So They Won't Get Lonely
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A Million Other Things (2)
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Red Tape: Collected Works
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Return
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The Semi-Circular Canals
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Information
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