Bill Viola is represented by:

Blain|Southern Gallery, London
www.blainsouthern.com

James Cohan Gallery, New York
www.jamescohan.com

Kukje Gallery, Seoul
www.kukje.org

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:

 

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Ancestors, 2012
Color High-Definition video on plasma display mounted vertically on wall
Performers: Kwesi Dei, Sharon Ferguson
Photo: Kira Perov

Visitation, 2008
Color High-Definition video on plasma display mounted on wall
Performers: Pam 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

Ocean Without a Shore is currently on view at Pennsylvania Acadeny of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Visit their website for details.

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.




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NEWS

OPEN NOW:

"Bill Viola," Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
March 5 - July 28, 2014

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

NORTH AMERICA

• Spring 2014 - Fall 2014
  Going Forth By Day (2002), "Arc of Life," Chamber Music
  Monterrey Bay, Carmel, CA
  -George Tsontakis St. Lawrence String Quartet, with Soprano (Spring 2014)
  -Chris Theofanidis Miró String Quartet (Fall 2014)
  

EUROPE

• April 4 - June 8, 2014
  Observance (2002), "Affekte," Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany
  
  
• April 8 - May 4, 2014
  Tristan und Isolde, La Bastille, National Opera de Paris; performances: April 8, 12, 17, 21, 25, 29, May 4
  
  
• April 12 - July 20, 2014
  Observance (2002), Tempest (2005), Three Women (2008), Study for Emergence (2002), Ablutions (2005), The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), Hatsu-Yume (First Dream) (1981), The Passing (1991), Chott el-Djerid (1979), "Bill Viola: Passions," Cathedral of Berne & Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
  
  

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

NORTH AMERICA

• March 24 - July 27, 2014
  "Video Vault: The 70s Revisited," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
  
  
• November 19, 2011 -
  Ocean Without a Shore (2007), "Ocean Without a Shore," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
  
  

EUROPE

• March 19 - April 6, 2014
  Inner Passage (2013), "Videoformes 2014," LA DIODE, Clermont-Ferrand, France
  
  
• March 8 - July 20, 2014
  The Greeting (1995), "Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino. Diverging Paths of Mannerism," Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
  
  
• March 5 - July 28, 2014
  20 works, "Bill Viola," Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
  
  
• January 10 - March 30, 2014
  Silent Mountain (2001), Dolorosa (2000), The Quintet of the Astonished (2000), Surrender (2001), "Bill Viola: En Dialogo," Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid
  
  
• January 23 - May 31, 2014
  Emergence (2002), Eternal Return (2000), Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Venice
  
  
• December 16, 2013- Permanent
  Self-Portrait, Submerged (2013), "Bill Viola: Self Portrait, Submerged," (moved to Vasari Corridor on 12/22) Ufizzi, Florence, Italy
  
  
• November 23, 2013 - February 20, 2014
  The Raft (2004), "La Casa degli Dei," Palazzo Te, Mantova, Italy
  
  
• October 11, 2013 - March 16, 2014
  Observance (2004), Permanent Collection on view, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, UK
  
  
• April 26, 2012 - Ongoing
  Tristan's Ascension (2005), "Bill Viola: Tristan's Ascension," Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway
  
  

ASIA

• Februrary 15 - March 30, 2014
  The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), "Life as Journey," Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
  
  
• September 28, 2010 – semi-permanent installation
  The Veiling (1995), “Blackbox”, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
  
  AUSTRALIA
  
  
• March 21, 2014 - May 8, 2014
  Incrementation (1996), Memoria (2000), Six Heads (2000), Observance (2002), Bodies of Light (2006), "Kaldor Family Collection: Artist Room #2 - Fracis Alys and Bill Viola," Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centtre, Gymea, Australia
  
  
  

  CENTRAL/SOUTH AMERICA

• Februrary 7 - April 7, 2014
  Walking on the Edge (2012), 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Columbia

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