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Photo www.billviola.com © Darin Moran
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25.1.1951
Born in New York City, NY (US)
Bill Viola is widely recognized as one of the leading video artists on the international scene. For over 30 years he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances, and works for television broadcast. Viola's video installations—total environments that envelop the viewer in image and sound—employ state-of-the-art technologies and are distinguished by their precision and direct simplicity. His single channel videotapes have been broadcast and presented cinematically around the world, while his writings have been published and anthologized for international readers.
Lives and works in Long Beach, CA (US)
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Public exhibitions 199 
from 30.6.
Nuevos Místicos
Museo Cabrera Pinto, San Cristóbal de La Laguna 
until 1.10.
Bare Life
Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
until 28.7.
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
until 27.7.
Bill Viola
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
until 6.7.
Bill Viola/Nan Hoover. Some Times
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
until 18.6.
No. 1: Destroy, she said
Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf
until 15.6.
Still / Motion - Liqiud Crystal Painting
NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka
until 8.6.
bruce nauman and bill viola
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
until 1.6.
Southern Exposure
Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Solo shows 47
2007
Bill Viola: The Crossing
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Bill Viola
CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Malága, Málaga
Bill Viola - New Crowned Hope - A Festival by Peter Sellars
Barbican, London (England)
Bill Viola
Haunch of Venison - London, London (England)
Bill Viola
Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Bill Viola - works from the tristan project
James Cohan Gallery, New York City, NY
The Quintet of Rembrance
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Bill Viola - Las horas invisibles
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla
Bill Viola Hatsu - Yume
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
Bill Viola - Ascension
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
2006
Bill Viola - Hatsu-Yume (First Dream)
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
New Acquisitions - Video Work by Bill Viola
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Bill Viola – Video
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
2005
Bill Viola
James Cohan Gallery, New York City, NY
Bill Viola - Tristan and Isolde
James Cohan Gallery, New York City, NY
Bill Viola - Reflecting Pool (1977-79)
The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Bill Viola - The Passions
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Video Installation by Bill Viola and Contemporary Works
MOMAT The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Bill Viola
NMWA The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Bill Viola - Visions
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus
Bill Viola - The Passions
CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid
Bill Viola - The Greeting
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
2004
Bill Viola - Observance
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (England)
Bill Viola - The Greeting
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
Bill Viola - Hall of Whispers
Museum De Pont, Tilburg
2003
Bill Viola
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (Scotland)
Bill Viola
Weston Link, Edinburgh (Scotland)
Bill Viola - The Passions
The National Gallery, London (England)
Bill Viola - Five Angels for the Millennium
 Gasometer Oberhausen, Oberhausen
Bill Viola - The World Of Appearences
James Cohan Gallery, New York City, NY
Bill Viola- New Works
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
Bill Viola - the passions
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Bill Viola
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Bill Viola - Going Forth By Day
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
Bill Viola - Something Above, Beyond, Below, Beneath
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Bill Viola - Going Forth by Day
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
2001
Bill Viola - Five Angels for the Millennium
Anthony d´Offay Gallery, London (England)
2000
Bill Viola - New Work
James Cohan Gallery, New York City, NY
Bill Viola - Stations
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
Beneath the Surface - The Video of Bill Viola
The John Curtin Gallery, Perth, WA
1999
Bill Viola
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
1998
Bill Viola - The Crossing
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Bill Viola - The Messenger
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Bill Viola - The Crossing
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Bill Viola, 25 Year Survey - A video journey
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Contemporary Art Series #16 - Bill Viola
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
Group shows 143
2008
Still/Motion
Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu City
Budda present in Akureyri
Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri
2007
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Gehen bleiben
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Centre Pompidou Novos Media 1965-2003
MNAC - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon
Video Trajectories: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the New Art Trust
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
MAXXI Installazioni
MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
Von Bill Viola bis Aernout Mik
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Bienniale of Electronic Arts - BEAP 2007
Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth - BEAP, Bentley, WA
Window | Interface
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
Klio - Eine kurze Geschichte der Kunst in Euramerika nach 1945
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
Collectors 1 - Collezione La Gaia
Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio
Vertigo - The century of off-media art from Futurism to the web
MAMbo - Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna
Scenes and Traces - From the collection design, photography & video
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Dalla terra alla luna - metafore di viaggio (parte I)
Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Il Settimo Splendore - La modernità della malinconia
Galleria dArte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Verona
Centre Pompidou Video Art 1965-2005
ACMI - Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne, VIC
Return to Cézanne
Collection Lambert, Avignon
Konceptualna umetnost
Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine, Novi Sad
2006
Centre Pompidou Video Art - 1965-2005
Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW
The Invisible Landscape revealing our place in the world
mocca - Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON
Primera generación. Arte e imagen en movimiento, 1963-1986
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
Video Masters: Classics from the 70s
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Video: An Art, A History 1965 - 2005
Miami Art Central, Miami, FL
SlowTech
MOCA Taipei, Taipei
The Missing Peace
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Sublime Embrace: Experiencing Consciousness in Contemporary Art
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
CINEFUTURO
Arte Scienza, Rome
NEW MEDIA 1965-2005 Selected works from Centre
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Sip my Ocean - International video in the
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
Full House - Gesichter einer Sammlung
Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Opere della Collezione
Galleria dArte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Verona
Without Boundary - Seventeen Ways of Looking
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
To the Human Future - Flight from the Dark Side
Art Tower Mito ATM, Mito
La visíon impura - Fondos de la colección permanente
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
Dormir, rêver... et autres nuits
CAPC - Musée dart contemporain, Bordeaux
Frontiers - Collecting the Art of Our Time
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
2005
Indeterminate States - Video in the Ella Fontanals
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL
A Very Liquid Heaven
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Guardami - Percezione del Video
Palazzo delle Papesse - Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena
Roaming Memories
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
Videographies – The Early Decades - II Cycle
National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens
Baroque and Neobaroque / The Hell of the Beautifull
DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
Tiempos de Vídeo 1965-2005 - Colección Nouveaux Médias del Centre Pompidou
CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona
Dall´occhio elettronico
Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin
A kind of magic - The art of transforming
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
Videographies – The Early Decades - I Cycle
National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens
Changes of Mind - Belief and Transformation
Haunch of Venison - London, London (England)
Fathom
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Eduardo y Maud Westerdahl - 2 miradas del siglo 20
Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
The Theatre of Art - Masterpieces from the Collection of the Ludwig Museum, Colo
Villa Manin. Centro darte contemporanea, Codroipo (UD)
Chronos
Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio
Boost in the Shell
AEROPLASTICS contemporary, Brussels
Getting Emotional
ICA Boston, Boston, MA
Marking Time - Moving Images
MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Sammlung Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
Live Pictures
Jamaica Center for the Arts, Jamaica, NY
The 9 Spaces
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus
Video Installations
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
On the Other Hand - New Media and Classic Photographs of Hands
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY
1 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow
Transcending Time: Recent Work by Bill Viola and Lorna Simpson
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
EXIT- Ausstieg aus dem Bild
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
2004
Screen Spirit
Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen
Realm of the Senses
James Cohan Gallery, New York City, NY
Contemporary Art: Floor to Ceiling, Wall to Wall
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Visions of America
Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg
5th Shanghai Biennale - Techniques of the visible
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
L´Ombre du temps
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
Sons & Lumières: Une histoire du son dans lart du XXe siècle
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Hypermedia
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Transcultures
National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens
Animals
Haunch of Venison - London, London (England)
Short Histories of Video
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (England)
Between The Lines
James Cohan Gallery, New York City, NY
Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Durchleuchtet. Dialog mit der Sammlung
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
lonely planet
Art Tower Mito ATM, Mito
Em Tempo Sem Tempo/ In Time Without Time
Paço das Artes, São Paulo
Die Neue Kunsthalle III - materiell-Immateriell
Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
The Disembodied Spirit
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Orizzonti Aperti - Da Felice Casorati a Vanessa Beecroft
Galleria dArte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Verona
Multiple Räume (1) :Seele - Konstruktionen des Innerlichen in der Kunst
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
Arkens Samling, 2004
ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen
Self-Evidence - Identity in Contemporary Art
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
VIDEO - Bildsprache des 21. Jahrhunderts
NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf
The Transformative Vision in Contemporary Video
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
Laocoonte devorado - Arte y violencia política.
ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz
2003
Temporal Values - von Minimal zu Video
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
Bill Viola and Sherin Neshat
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
From Dust to Dusk - International exhibition of contemporary art
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Il viaggio dell’uomo immobile
Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa
Traveling - towards the border
NMWA The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Process
Encounters in Live Situations / Changing Spaces
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Editionen der Kunstzeitschrift Frame
Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary, Munich
Video Acts...
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England)
Uneasy Space
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
La construcción del espectador
Fundación Luis Seoane, Coruna
Some Times
Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Overview – highlights from the collections of Fondation Cartier pour l’art conte
Bildmuseet, Umeå
Zona People 1974-1985 Non profit art space - Firenze
Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
Taktiken des Ego
Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum • Center of International Sculpture, Duisburg
Independence
SLG South London Gallery, London (England)
Sanctuary
GoMA - Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (Scotland)
Remembrance + the Moving Image Persistence of Vision
ACMI - Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne, VIC
Moderna Museet c/o
Baltic Art Center, Visby
Air
James Cohan Gallery, New York City, NY
2002
Real Life
Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England)
Der Akt in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts
Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden
Synopsis 2 - Theologies
National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens
El lenguaje del cuerpo
Galería Elvira González, Madrid
Warhol to Koons: International Contemporary Art from a Private Collection
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (Scotland)
Warhol to Koons - International Contemporary Art from a Private Collection
Weston Link, Edinburgh (Scotland)
Aquaria
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz
Lewis Caroll - ... confiture demain et confiture hier. Mais jamais confiture auj
CRAC - Centre Régional dArt Contemporain de Sète, Sète
Estratégias para Deslumbrar
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo
Material World - From Lichtenstein to Viola 25 Years of The Fabric Workshop and
Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Moving Images (Portraits)
Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburg, PA
Malerei ohne Malerei
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig
Selections from the permanent collection of video art
National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens
2001
The Inward Eye - Transcendence in Contemporary Art
Contemporary Arts Museum • Houston, Houston, TX
Todays Utopia
Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
Artcité - Quand Montréal devient musée
Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
Blind Vision - Video and the Limits of Perception
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Bill Viola & Patty Chang
Baltic Art Center, Visby
49th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Art and Science
National Art Museum of China - NAMOC, Beijing
The “classics” of video art ( 1965- 1995)-New Media
National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens
2000
Group Show
SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
MAN – Body in Art from 1950-2000
ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen
Le désert
Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain, Paris
Between Cinema and a Hard Place
Tate Modern, London (England)
1999
Rewind to the future
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
Permanent Collection
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Video Forum
Galleria Marabini, Bologna
1998
Magie der Bäume
Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
Het subjectieve daarzijn
MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp
3. Werkleitz Biennale - sub fiction
Werkleitz Biennale, Halle (Saale)
FLYakf
stichtlicht stichting, Wilhelminadorp
ALBUM - A selection from the Fondatión Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain
Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona
Being & Time - The Emergence of Video Projection
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Versus 2000
MUSEION - Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano
Dealer Directory 3
Korea (Republic)
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
United Kingdom
Haunch of Venison - London, London (England)
USA
James Cohan Gallery, New York City, NY
Public collections 48
Austria
Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg
T-B A21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Canada
Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
Denmark
ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
Finland
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
France
Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
Germany
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - im Ständehaus, Dusseldorf
Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf
Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Kunstverein Oberhausen e.V./Schloß Oberhausen, Oberhausen
Greece
National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens
Italy
MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
Korea (Republic)
National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul
Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Museum De Pont, Tilburg
Portugal
Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Spain
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Museum für Gegenwartskunst - Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel
Schaulager, Münchenstein / Basel
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
United Kingdom
Tate Britain, London (England)
USA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
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