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.

 

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feature from the 1999 Bill Viola exhibition, click the logo below:

 

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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.




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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

• April 12, 2009 - September 27, 2009
  The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), "The Moving Image: Scan To Screen, Pixel To Projection," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, USA
• November 21 , 2008 - November, 2009
  Silent Mountain (2001), "Notations: The Closing Decade," Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 

EUROPE

• June 26, 2009 - Novemeber 29, 2009
  I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like (1986), "After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions," Jerwood Gallery, Natural History Museum, London
  
• June 26, 2009 - September 20, 2009
  The Messenger (1996), "Nits fosques de l'anima" in conjunction with the "10th Festival of World and Sacred Music Girona", Bòlit Sant Niclolau, Girona, Spain
  
• June 19, 2009 - September 5, 2009
  Silent Mountain (2001), Four Hands (2001), Catherine's Room (2001), Ascension (2000), "Being Time," The Pier Art Centre, Stromness, Orkney, UK
  
• June 11, 2009 - October 4, 2009
  Anthem (1983), "Heart in Heart," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
  
• June 6, 2009 - November 15, 2009
  Bodies of Light (2006), "In-Finitum," Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
  
• June 5, 2009 - November 22, 2009
  The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), Migration (1976), Moonblood (1977-79), Angel's Gate (1989), "Anima dell'Acqua," Fondazione DNArt, Ca'd'Oro, Venice
  
• May 30, 2009 - July 26, 2009
  The Quintet of Remembrance (2000), "Bill Viola: The Quintet of Remembrance," Pro Arte, Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg, Russia
  
• April 4, 2009 - October 4, 2009
  Anthem (1983), "From Holbein to Tillmans: Prominent Guests from the Kunstmuseum Basel," Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland

 

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

 

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