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:

 

For additional information,
please contact us.


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


Bill Viola, Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water), 2014
Executive Producer: Kira Perov

ST PAUL'S COMMISSION

Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) was unveiled at St Paul’s Cathedral on May 21st. Please click here for The Financial Times article on Bill Viola’s St Paul’s Commission.

Admission to view the work is free at the following times: 11:30a & 2:15p precisely, Monday to Saturday. Evening viewings: June 2nd, July 7th, August 4th, 6-7p. More information here.

Tiny Deaths (1993) will also be on view at Tate Modern, directly opposite St Paul’s across the Millennium Bridge.

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OPEN NOW:

"Bill Viola," Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
March 5 - July 21, 2014

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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

    NORTH AMERICA

  • April 10, 2015
    Going Forth By Day (2002), "Arc of Life," Work of Chris Theofanidis, to be premiered by Miró String Quartet Chamber Music
    Monterrey Bay, Carmel, CA

EUROPE

  • September 17 - December 14, 2014 The Night Journey, "Vertigo of Reality," Akademie der Kunste, Berlin
  • October 2-4, 2014
    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like (1986), "Digitalbigscreen," Trbovlje New Media Center, Slovenia

  • October 9, 2014 - February 22, 2014
    The Raft (2004), "The Sea," Museum Brandts, Odense C, Denmark

  • October 12, 2014 - January 12, 2015
    Observance (2002), "Affects," Gemeentemuseum Helmond, The Netherlands

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

NORTH AMERICA

  • May 1, 2014 - August 29, 2014
    Acceptance (2008), "Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present," Leila Heller Gallery, New York

  • March 24 - July 27, 2014
    "Video Vault: The 70s Revisited," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

  • November 19, 2011 - Semi-Permanent
    Ocean Without a Shore (2007), "Ocean Without a Shore," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

EUROPE

  • June 18, 2014 - April 12, 2015
    Inner Passage (2013), "Walk and the Equilibrium, the walker, the acrobat," Museo Savatore Ferragamo, Florence

  • June 13 - September 14, 2014
    • The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), "Narcisse, l'image dans l'onde," Centre d'Art Contemporain á Wattwiller, France

  • May 19, 2014- Spring 2015
    Tiny Deaths (1993), Tate Modern, London

  • May 21, 2014 - Permanent
    Martyrs (2014), Commission for St. Paul's Cathedral, London

  • May 3, 2014 - October 28, 2017
    Acceptance (2008), Transfiguration (2007), "Man in the Mirror," Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium

  • 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

  • March 8 - July 20, 2014
    The Greeting (1995), "Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino. Diverging Paths of Mannerism," Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

  • March 5 - July 21, 2014
    20 works, "Bill Viola," Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris

  • December 16, 2013- Permanent
    Self-Portrait, Submerged (2013), "Bill Viola: Self Portrait, Submerged," (moved to Vasari Corridor on 12/22) Ufizzi, Florence, Italy

  • April 26, 2012 - Ongoing
    Tristan's Ascension (2005), "Bill Viola: Tristan's Ascension," Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway

ASIA

  • September 28, 2010 – semi-permanent installation
    The Veiling (1995), “Blackbox”, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Kore    a

 


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