Bill Viola is represented by:

Haunch of Venison, London

James Cohan Gallery, New York

Kukje Gallery, Seoul

For more images and articles,
please visit their websites.

 

To view the SFMoMA interactive
feature from the 1999 Bill Viola exhibition, click the logo below:

 

For additional information,
please contact us.

 

Two Women, 2008
Color High-Definition video on plasma display mounted on wall
Performers: Pamela Blackwell and Weba Garretson
Photo: Kira Perov

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ocean Without a Shore, 2007
Video/sound installation
Color High-Definition video triptych, two 65” plasma screens, one 103” screen mounted vertically, six loudspeakers (three pairs stereo sound)
Room dimensions variable
Performer: Blake Viola
Installation view, Church of San Gallo, Venice
Photo: Thierry Bal

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

The Crossing, 1996
Video/sound installation






 

 

 

 



Emergence, 2002
Video Installation
Color High-Definition video rear projection on screen mounted on wall in dark room
Photo:
© Kira Perov

Edition 1/3, commissioned by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Please click
here for a description of Emergence.

Please visit the J. Paul Getty Museum's feature on Bill Viola: The Passions.

The Getty website also features a short documentary film on the making of The Passions exhibition by Mark Kidel. Please click here to view the film.




Please click on the Wikiverse Seal below for more information on Bill Viola.

 

 

NEWS

May 11, 2009
Bill Viola Awarded XXIst Catalonia International Prize

The Generalitat de Catalunya, autonomous government of Catalonia in the Framework of the Spanish State, created the Premi Internacional Catalunya in 1989, to recognise persons who made key contributions to the development of cultural, scientific or human values. The jury has decided to give this year’s prize to the North-American artist Bill Viola, for his work both artistic and technical, personal and spiritual.

Previous winners include:
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
Anthropologist. France. 2005
- Doris Lessing Writer. Great Britain. 1999
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau Oceanographer. France. 1991
- Karl R. Popper Philosopher. Great Britain. 1989


please click here to be directed to the announcement from the Generalitat de Catalunya.

 

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

 

NORTH AMERICA

 

EUROPE

 

ASIA

 

AUSTRALIA

  • May 28, 2009 - June 27, 2009
    Hatsu-Yume (First Dream) (1981), "The Quick and The Dead," Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

  • December 18, 2008 - December, 2009
    Ocean Without a Shore (2007), new installation National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

 

PAST EXHIBITIONS