Bill Viola is represented by both James Cohan Gallery, New York (jamescohan.com) & Haunch of Venison London (haunchofvenison.com).

For more images and articles, please visit their websites.


Ocean Without a Shore, 2007
Production still

Photo: Kira Perov
Performer: Blake Viola

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Crossing, 1996
Video/sound installation


Please click on the SFMoMA icon to view in-depth information on the traveling exhibition "Bill Viola: a 25 Year Survey" organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. The site contains images and descriptions of all the 40 works in the show, as well as interviews with Bill Viola and conversations with museum director David Ross and theater and opera director Peter Sellars.




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.

 

The Sydney Morning Herald

Bill Viola Interview by Gerard Wright

Liberation of the senses
April 5, 2008

 

CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS


NORTH AMERICA

 

  • April 5, 2008 - June 8, 2008
    The Reflecting Pool (1977 -79) , "Bruce Nauman and Bill Viola", Art Gallery of Albert, Canada

 

  • March 15, 2008 - June 8, 2008
    The Sleepers (1992), Anthem (1983), Ancient of Days (1979-81) and The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), "California Video",     J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA USA

 

 

  • November 21, 2007 - July 28, 2008
    Information (1973), "Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 - Now", The Museum of Modert Art, New York,NY USA

     

  • October 7, 2006 -
    Eternal Return (2000), Permanent Collection: Modern and Contemporary Art - opening of the new Daniel Libesking-designed wing, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA

 

  • October 2001 to be installed indefinitelyThe Quintet of Remembrance (2000), Permanent Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, USA

 

EUROPE

 

  • May 7, 2008 - August 11, 2008
    Room for St. John of the Cross (1983), "Traces du sacré", Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

 

  • March 20, 2008 - July 6, 2008
    The Passing (1991), Chott el-Djerid (1979), Memory Surface and Mental Prayers (1977) and Information (1973), "Nan Hoover / Bill Viola: Some Times", Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria

 

 

 

AUSTRALIA

 

  • April 10, 2008 - July 27, 2008
    The Fall into Paradise (2005), "The Fall into Paradise: LOVE/DEATH: The Tristan Project, 2005", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

 

  • April 9, 2008 - May 24, 2008
    Tristan's Ascension (2005) and Fire Woman (2005), "Fire Woman and Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall): LOVE/DEATH: The Tristan Project, 2005", St. Saviour's Church, Redfern, Australia (from 6:30 - 10:30pm)

 

  • March 20, 2008 - June 1, 2008
    Heaven and Earth (1991) and Eternal Return (2000), "Southern Exposure: Works from the Collection of the MCA San Diego",     Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia

 

 

ASIA

 

 

  • April 29, 2008 - July 27, 2008
    The Reflecting Pool (1977 - 79),"Still/Motion"    , The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (traveling exhibition)

 

  • February 14, 2008 - April 13, 2008
    The Reflecting Pool (1977 - 79),"Still/Motion"    , Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie-ken, Japan (traveling exhibition)

 

 

MIDDLE EAST

 

  • October 12, 2007 - October 12,2008
    Observance (2002),"Bare Life"    , Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem