Bill Viola
Surrender, 2001
Video Installation
Color video diptych on two plasma displays mounted on wall
Photo: © Kira Perov

RECENTLY PAST EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS

Ocean Without a Shore
Chiesa di San Gallo, Venice

“The Self is an ocean without a shore. Gazing upon it has no
beginning or end, in this world and the next.”
Ibn al’Arabi (1165 – 1240)

Ocean Without a Shore is about the presence of the dead in our lives. The three stone altars in the church of San Gallo become portals for the passage of the dead to and from our world. Presented as a series of encounters at the intersection between life and death, the video sequence documents a succession of individuals slowly approaching out of darkness and moving into the light. Each person must then breakthrough an invisible threshold of water and light in order to pass into the physical world. Once incarnate however, all beings realize that their presence is finite and so they must eventually turn away from material existence to return from where they came. The cycle repeats without end.

The work was inspired by a poem by the 20th century Senegalese poet and storyteller Birago Diop:

“ Hearing things more than beings,
listening to the voice of fire,
the voice of water.
Hearing in wind the weeping bushes,
sighs of our forefathers.

The dead are never gone:
they are in the shadows.
The dead are not in earth:
they’re in the rustling tree,
the groaning wood,
water that runs,
water that sleeps;
they’re in the hut, in the crowd,
the dead are not dead.

The dead are never gone,
they’re in the breast of a woman,
they’re in the crying of a child,
in the flaming torch.
The dead are not in the earth:
they’re in the dying fire,
the weeping grasses,
whimpering rocks,
they’re in the forest, they’re in the house,
the dead are not dead.”
(from David Melzter, ed. Death - An Anthology of Ancient Texts, Songs, Prayers and Stories (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984)

The new work is jointly presented by galleries Haunch of Venison London, James Cohan Gallery, New York and Kukje Gallery, Seoul.

Please click here to visit the project website.

San Gallo map

Tate Shots interview with Bill Viola at San Gallo

Bill Viola Creates Work for Venice Biennale, artdaily.org

UNITED STATES

• 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

• February 28, 2008 Performance at 8:00 pm
  Déserts (1994), University of Connecticut, Von der Mehden Recital Hall, Storrs, Ct USA

• December 1, 2007 - March 16, 2008
  Bodies of Light (2006), "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA USA

• October 17, 2007 - December 23, 2007
  The Crossing (1996), "Bill Viola: The Crossing", Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA USA

• October 12, 2007 - December 30, 2007
  The Space Between the Teeth (1976), "Video Trajectories", MIT List Visual Arts Center , Cambridge, MA USA

• August 31, 2007 -November 5, 2007
  Reverse Television (1983), "Window/Interface", Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO USA

• July 12, 2007 - August 22, 2007
  Bodies of Light (2006), "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama", School of Visual Arts, New York, NY USA

• April 28, 2007 - May 15, 2007
  The Fall into Paradise (2005), Passage into Night (2005), Isolde's Ascension (2005), "Bill Viola: Works from the Tristan Project", James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY USA

• March 16, 2007 - September 3, 2007
  Bodies of Light (2006), "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama", Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY USA Click here for a Virtual Tour of The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama exhibition

• March 2, 2007 - May 15, 2007
  The Quintet of Remembrance (2000), "Bill Viola: The Quintet of Remembrance", Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, Utah USA In conjunction with the 2007 Tanner Lecture on Human Values at the University of Utah

• February 10, 2007 - April 22, 2007
  Ascension (2000), "Video: Beyond the Frame: Lorna Simpson's Easy to Remember", Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia, USA

• November 6, 2006 - November 11, 2006
  The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), Digital Forum "Video Masters: Classics from the 70s", Armory Center for the Arts, THE ARMORY AT ONE COLORADO, The Courtyard at One Colorado, Old Pasadena, CA, USA

• October 28, 2006 - January 15, 2007
  Bodies of Light (2006), "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama", Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), Chicago, IL, USA

• September 20, 2006 - December 10, 2006
  Reverse Television (1983), "Video: An Art, a History, 1965 - 2005 New Media from the Centre Pompidou", Miami Art Central, Miami, FL, USA

• August 26, 2006 - December 31, 2006
  The Reflecting Pool-Collected Works 1977-80 (1980), Anthem (1983), The Passing (1991), and Déserts ( 1994),
  "New Acquisitions: Video Work by Bill Viola", Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, USA

• February 26, 2006 - May 22, 2006
  Surrender (2001), "Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking", The Museum of Modern Art , New York, NY, USA

• February 25, 2006
  One-night screening of Déserts (1994), David Robertson Young Artists Concert, Zankel Hall, Weil Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA

• January 12, 2007 - March 17, 2007
  Ascension (2000), "Bill Viola: Ascension", Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

• November 5, 2005 - December 22, 2005
  The Darker Side of Dawn (2005), Night Journey (2005), Becoming Light (2005), among other new works, "Bill Viola", James Cohan Gallery , New York, NY USA. Click here for Bill Viola interview . Artinfo interview click here

• September 18, 2005 - January 3, 2006
  Eternal Return (2000), "Southern Exposure," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA USA

• June 11, 2006 - September 10, 2006
  Bodies of Light (2005), "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama", UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

• May 31, 2005 - July 3, 2005
  Mary (2000), "Video Installations," Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE USA

• May 18, 2005 - September 5, 2005
  Surrender (2001), "Getting Emotional," The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA USA

• May 13, 2005 - September 11, 2005
  The Greeting (1995), "Marking Time/Moving Images," Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL USA

• February 19, 2005 - May 22, 2005
  Four Hands (2001), "On the Other Hand: New Media and Classic Photographs of Hands," George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY USA

• February 12, 2005 - May 15, 2005
  Heaven and Earth (1992), "Collectors XX: Building a Museum Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA USA

• January 22, 2005 - March 12, 2005
  Ascension (2000), The Quintet of the Silent (2000), Observance (2002), "Transcending Time: Recent Work by Bill Viola and Lorna Simpson," Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH USA

• January 1, 2005 - March 13, 2005
  The Greeting (1995), "Bill Viola: The Greeting," Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA

• December 11, 2004 - January 22, 2005
  Il Vapore (1975), "Realm of the Senses," James Cohan Gallery , New York, NY USA

• November 20, 2004 - February 13, 2005
  The Greeting (1995) , "Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait," Philadephia Museum of Art, PA, USA

• November 18, 2004 - March 2005
  Five Angels for the Millennium (2001), Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of Art, NY, USA

• November 1, 2004 - November 30, 2004
  Surrender (2001), Robert B. Menschel Gallery in the Schine Student Center, Syracuse University, NY, USA

• October 26 - December 23, 2004
  Vegetable Memory (1978-80), The Reflecting Pool (1979), Anthem (1983) and Six Heads (2000) , "Virigina Film Festival: Extreme Time," University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA USA

• September 11 - November 28, 2004
  Memoria (2000), "The Disembodied Spirit" (traveling show organized by Bowdoin College of Museum of Art), Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA

• July 31 - September 26, 2004
  The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), "Hypermedia," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, USA
  
  

• June 4 - July 25, 2004
  The Reflecting Pool Collected Works (1977-80), "Circa 1979," Aspen At Museum, CO, USA
  
  

• May 8 - June 26, 2004
  Catherine's Dream (2002), "Between the Lines," James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  
  

• March 5, 2004 - May 23, 2004
  Memoria (2000), "The Disembodied Spirit," Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MS, USA
  (traveling show organized by Bowdoin College of Museum of Art)
  
  

• February 7, 2004 - May 30, 2004
  Nine Attempts to Achieve Immortality (1996), "Self-Evidence: Identity in Contemporary Art", DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, USA
  
  

• January 23, 2004 - February 21, 2004
  The Messenger (1996), "Earth, Air, Fire and Water", Herron Gallery, Herron School of Art, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
  
  

• January 22, 2004 - April 4, 2004
  Ascension (2000), "The Transformative Power of Video", Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA
  
  

• October 12, 2003 - March 14, 2004
  The Crossing (1996), "Passion for Art: 100 Treasures 100 Years", Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
  
  

• September 28, 2003 - February 29, 2004
  The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), "The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art," The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, USA
  
  

• September 25, 2003 - December 23, 2003
  Memoria (2000), "The Disembodied Spirit," Bowdoin College of Museum of Art), Brunswick, ME, USA
  
  

• April 5 - May 3, 2003
  The World of Appearances (2000), "Bill Viola: The World of Appearances", James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  
  

• March 7 - May 25, 2003
  The Quintet of Remembrance (2000), "Self & Soul: The Architecture of Intimacy", Asheville Art Museum, NC, USA
  
  

• January 24 - April 27, 2003
  Bill Viola: The Passions, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  
  

• September 21, 2002 - January 12, 2003
  Going Forth By Day (2002), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
  
  

• Septermber 14, 2002 - November 16, 2002
  Six Heads (2000), "Extreme Existence", Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York City, NY
  
  

• July - October 2002
  The Quintet of the Silent (2000), permanent collection installation, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
  
  

• July 2 - November 3, 2002
  The Quintet of the Silent (2000), permanent collection installation, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
  
  

• November 11, 2001 - January 12, 2003
  The Quintet of Remembrance (2000), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Permanent Collection, New York, NY
  
  

• June 22 - August 18, 2002
  The Space Between the Teeth (1976), "Outer and Inner Space," Part III, and The Quintet of the Unseen (2000), permanent collection installation, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
  
  

• June 4 - September 2, 2002
  Chott el-Djerid (1979), The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), Ascension (2000), "Bill Viola: Something Above, Beyond, Below, Beneath," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
  
  

CANADA

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

• January 27, 2008 - April 20, 2008
  Observance (2002), "Bill Viola: Observance", Musée d'art de Joliette, Québec, Canada

• January 1, 2008 - January 31, 2008
  Angel's Gate (1989), "ARTery", The Prairie Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada

• February 3, 2007 - May 5, 2007
  The Greeting (1995), "Acting the Part: Photography as Theater", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

• June 16, 2006 - October 1, 2006
  The Greeting (1995), "Acting the Part: Photography as Theater", National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• May 27, 2006 - September 4, 2006
  Becoming Light (2006), "Sublime Embrace: Experiencing Consciousness in Contemporary Art", Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

• June 15 - October 5, 2003
  The World of Appearances (2000), "The Body Transformed", National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
  
  

• August 10, 2001 - October 8, 2001
  The Sleepers (1992), "Artcité - When Montréal turns into a Museum," Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Ontario
  
  

EUROPE

• February 28, 2008 - April 5, 2008
  Reverse Television (1983), "Broadcast Yourself", The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

• January 19, 2008 - March 9, 2008
  Observance (2002), "Buddha is in Akureyri", Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland

• January 24, 2008 - January 28, 2008
  The Far Shore (2007) and Impermanence (2007), "Art First" Bologna Art Fair, Bologna, Italy

• November 30, 2007 - February 23, 2008
  Observance (2002), "Emotional Systems: contemporary art between emotion and reason", Centre for Contemporary Culture La Strozzina at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

• November 28, 2007 - February 17, 2008
  Living Witness (2003), "Going Staying: Movement, Body, Place in Contemporary Art", Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

• October 25, 2007 - January 20, 2008
  Becoming Light (2005), "Richard Wagner, visions d’artistes", Cité de la Musique musée , Paris, France

• October 16, 2007 - January 1, 2008
  Going Forth By Day (2002), "Lille 3000: Passage du Temps/Passing Time: Collection François Pinault Foundation", Tri Postal, Lille, France

• October 5, 2007 Performance at 8:00 pm
  Déserts (1994), "Scandinavian Contemporary Music Festival: Sound Around", The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Congress Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark

• September 13, 2007 - December 9, 2007
  The Passing (1991), "Le Temps", Centre Albert Marinus, Brussels, Belgium

• August 10, 2007 - August 19, 2007
  Four Hands (2001), "The 34th Annual Kilkenny Arts Festival", St. John’s Priory, Kilkenny, Ireland

• July 6, 2007 - August 28, 2007
  Old Oak Study (2005), "Afterglow", Savannah College of Art and Design, Lacoste, France

• July 4, 2007 - August 12, 2007
  Bodies of Light (2006), "New Crowned Hope: A Festival by Peter Sellars", The Barbican, London, UK

• June 16, 2007 - August 12, 2007
  The Last Angel (2002), "Moviken Art 2007", The Old Foundry, Moviken, Sweden

• June 11, 2007 - August 19, 2007
  Passage Into Night (2005), "Summer Exhibition 2007", Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

• June 10, 2007 - November 24, 2007
  Ocean Without A Shore (2007), "Bill Viola: Ocean Without A Shore", San Gallo Church, San Marco, Venice, Italy

• May 19, 2007 beginning at 9:30 pm
  The Messenger (1996), "Nuit des Musées", Musée Rodin, Paris, France

• May 12, 2007 - July 1, 2007
  The Raft (2004), Observance (2002), Silent Mountain (2001), Surrender (2001), Ascension (2000), The Locked Garden (2000), The Quintet of the Astonished (2000), The Crossing (1996), and The Greeting (1995), "Bill Viola", Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

• May 5, 2007 - November 4, 2007
  Emergence (2002), "Vertigo: The century of off-media art from Futurism to the web", The MAMbo - Museo of Modern Art of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

• May 3, 2007 - May 20, 2007
  Il Vapore (1975), Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, Rome, Italy

• April 21 - One-night performance
  Déserts (1994), "Frames", Flagey Studio, Brussels, Belgium

• April 21 - April 22, 2007 -Screening in conjunction with "Frames"
  Four Songs (1976), The Reflecting Pool Collected Work 1977-80, Hatsu Yume (First Dream) 1981, and The Passing (1991), Flagey Studio 5, Brussels, Belgium

• April 20, 2007 - Performance at 8:00pm
  Déserts (1994), Vlaams Radio Orkestra: Thierry Fischer - Déserts", deSingel International Arts Centre, Antwerp, Belgium

• April 13, 2007 - May 5, 2007
  The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), "Convergence", The Dock Arts Centre, Co. Leitrim, Ireland

• April 5, 2007 - August 5, 2007
  Observance (2005), "Pain", National Gallery in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany

• March 22, 2007 - May 27, 2007
  Reverse Television (1983), "Centre Pompidou Video Art 1965 - 2005", Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Victoria, Australia

• March 18, 2007 - May 20, 2007
  The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), "Return to Cezanne...", Collection Lambert, Avignon, France

• March 12, 2007 - March 24, 2007
  The Reflecting Pool (1977-79) and Observance (2002), Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR USA

• March 3, 2007 - May 27, 2007
  Dolorosa (2000), "Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych", Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium

• February 8, 2007 - June 18, 2007
  Ablutions (2005), Darker Side of Dawn (2005), Emergence (2002), Observance (2002), and Ascension (2000), "Las Horas Invisibles", Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada, Palacio de Carlos V (Alhambra), Granada, Spain

• February 6, 2007 - June 7, 2007
  The Greeting (1995), "On History", Fundación Santander, Madrid, Spain

• February 2, 2007 - April 29, 2007
  The Raft (May 2004), "Visions du déluge", Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

• February 2, 2007 - February 28, 2007
  The Messenger (1996), Sheffield Cathedral, Sheffield, UK

• December 11, 2006 at 18h30
  Truth Through Mass Individuation (1976) and The Reflecting Pool (1977-79) "VIDÉO ET APRÉS: ANTHROPOMÉTRIES ET AUTRES SAUTS DANS LE VIDE (Variations autour de l'oeuvre d'Yves Klein)", Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

• November 16, 2006 - December 13, 2006
  Bodies of Light (2006) "New Crowned Hope Visual Arts", Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

• November 11, 2006 - December 17, 2006
  The Passing (1991), "mois américan: Drive in, à travers le mouvement ", LIA - Lieu d'Images et d'Art , Grenoble, France

• November 7, 2006 - April 2, 2007
  Room for St. John of the Cross (1983) and Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) (1979), "First Generation: Art and the Moving Image 1963 - 1986", Museo Nacional Centro de Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

• September 2, 2006 - September 17, 2006
  The Reflecting Pool (1977 - 79), "Water", Kuenstlerverein Walkmuehle , Wiesbaden, Germany

• September 13, 2006 - October 13, 2006
  The Reflecting Pool (1977 - 79), Déserts ( 1994), "Bill Viola, Déserts, The Reflecting Pool", Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Ireland

• August 30, 2006 - April 9, 2007
  Stations (1994), "Out of Time", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

• July 20, 2006 - August 11, 2006
  The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), "La Vidéo s'installe à Mortagne" Charentes Maritimes , France

• July 20, 2006 - September 17, 2006
  Night Journey (2005), "Night Journey - Bill Viola" Church of St. Domingo, Mallorca, Spain

• June 30, 2006 - September 3, 2006
  Anthem (1983), "New Mystics" Instituto Cabrera Pinto de La Laguna. Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

• June 21, 2006 - September 2, 2006
  Works from Tristan and Isolde (2005 - 2006), "Bill Viola Love/Death: The Tristan Project" Haunch of Venison, London, UK. Press Release

• April 28, 2006 - August 27, 2006
  Déserts (1994), "Edgard Varèse (1883 - 1965) Composer, Sound Sculptor, Visionary", Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland. Concert of Bill Viola's Déserts in conjunction with the exhibitionon June 18, 2006. Click here for more information. Press Release

• April 27, 2006 - May 28, 2006
  Chott el-Djerid (1979), "Landscape/Inscape",St. Paul Street Gallery @ Auckland University of Technology , Auckland, New Zealand

• April 16, 2006 - August 27 2006
  Ascension (2000), The Locked Garden (2000),Surrender (2001), Emergence (2002),and Observance (2002), "Bill Viola - Video" 2006 Recipient of the NORD/LB Art Prize, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany. Press Release

• April 15, 2006 - July 8, 2006
  Observance (2002), "Bill Viola and the Old Masters ", The Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK. Click here for exhibition Press Release

• April 4, 2006 - August 8, 2006
  The Raft (May 2004), "Sip My Ocean" International Video Art from the Louisiana's Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

• March 22, 2006 - May 21, 2006
  Silent Mountain (2001), "Ecce Uomo (33 + 1 artisti contemporanei)", Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy

• March 8, 2006 - July 17, 2006
  Anthem (1983), "Los Angeles , 1955 - 1985", Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

• February 3, 2006 - May 21, 2006
  The Sleeprs (1992), "Dormir, Rêver... et autres nuits",Musée d'art contemporain , Bordeaux, France

• January 23, 2006 - Screening
  Truth Through Mass Individuation (1976), The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), Ancient of Days (1979-81), Chott-El-Djerid (1979), Hatsu Yume (1981), I do not Know What it is I am Like (1986), The Passing (1991), "Bill Viola: De la nature des choses," Centre Pompidou, Cinema 1, 6:30pm, Paris, France

• December 18, 2005 - February 26, 2006
  The Lovers (2004), "Intramoenia Extra Art," Castel del Monte, Andria, Bari, Italy

• November 8, 2005 - December 11, 2005
  Anthem (1983), "BAC! 05," Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

• October 28, 2005 - February 26, 2006
  Ascension (2000), "Art and Technology: The Infinite Image; Screens, Visions, Actions," Spazio Oberdan , Milan, Italy

• October 15, 2005 - January 8, 2006
  The Greeting (1995), "Guardami: Percezione del Video/Look at Me: Video Perceptions," Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contempranea, Siena, Italy

• October 8, 2005 - November 20, 2005
  Catherine's Vow (2002), "Roaming Memories," Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany

• September 28, 2005 - January 8, 2006
  Reverse Television (1983), "Tiempos de Video: 1965 - 2005," CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain

• September 17, 2005 - January 15, 2006
  Mary (2000), "Video II: Allegorie," NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany

• August 6, 2005 - November 20, 2005
  The Crossing (1996), "A Kind of Magic," Lucerne Museum of Art, Lucerne, Switzerland

• July 15, 2005 - September 15, 2005
  The Quintet of the Astonished (2000), "Soul Inspired Art," Episcopal Seminary, Bruges, Belgium

• July 13, 2005 - September 4, 2005
  The Reflecting Pool (1977 - 80), "Videographies-The Early Decades: From the EMST Collection," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

• July 7, 2005 - August 25, 2005
  Unspoken Silver and Gold (2001), "Changes of Mind: Transformation and Belief," Haunch of Venison, London, UK

• June 30, 2005
  One-night screening of Déserts (1994), Ravenna Festival, Pala De Andre, Ravenna, Italy

• June 15, 2005 - February 2, 2006
  Five Angels for the Millennium (2001), "Big Bang, Destruction and Creation in the Art of the 20th Century," Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

• June 15, 2005 - June 20, 2005
  The Lovers (2005), The Raft (May 2004), Basel Art Fair "Art Basel 36," Basel, Switzerland

• June 9, 2005 - November 6, 2005
  The Greeting (1995), "The Theater of Art: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Ludwig Museum, Cologne," Villa Manin Center for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy

• June 3, 2005 - August 21, 2005
  The Messenger (1996), "Water in Myth and Nature," Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany

• May 14, 2005 - July 31, 2005
  Four Hands (1996), "Works by Bill Viola," Harewood House, Leeds, UK

• April 30, 2005 - June 19, 2005
  Going Forth By Day (2002), " 25 Years of Deutsche Bank Collection," Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin,Germany

• April 28, 2005
  Anthem (1983), "Tunnel du Lötschberg/ Lötschbergtunnel: ENJOY THE RIDE: Contemporary Art and Sound Series," Lötschberg Tunnel, Geneva, Switzerland

• February 18, 2005 - May 15, 2005
  Five Angels for the Millennium (2001), Surrender (2001), The Messenger (1996), The Crossing (1996), Going Forth By Day (1994), "Bill Viola Visions," Aros Aarhus kunstmuseum, Denmark

• February 4, 2005 - May 15, 2005
  Bill Viola: The Passions, Fundación "la Caixa," Madrid, Spain

• January 28, 2005 - February 28, 2005
  The Greeting (1995), "Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art", State Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Russia

• December 18, 2004 - April 17, 2005
  Witness (2001), Mater (2001), Observance (2002), "Bill Viola: Observance," The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England

• December 8, 2004
  One-night screening of Déserts (1994), Hannover University, Hannover, Germany

• October 28, 2004
  One-night public performance of Déserts (1994), "New Music Academy Concerts, 2004-2005", Electric & Concert Halls, Sibelius Academy's Brass and Percussion Orchestra, New Music Academy, Helsinki, Finland

• October 21, 2004 - January 31, 2005
  Mary (2000) and The Silent Sea (2002), "Visions of America, " Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria
  
  

• October 21, 2004 - January 23, 2005
  Surrender (2001), Hall of Whispers (1995), "Laocoon devoured; Arte y Violencia Politica, " Artium, Granada, Spain

• October 9, 2004 - January 9, 2005
  Hall of Whispers (1995), De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
  
  
• October 2 - 3, 2004
  The Quintet of the Silent (2000) and The Reflecting Pool (1979), "Nuit Blanche," Eglise de la Madeleine & Eglise Saint-Sulpice, organized by Art Public Contemporain, Paris, France

• September 27, 2004 - November 28, 2004
  Surrender (2001), "L'Ombre du temps," Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

• September 22, 2004 - January 3, 2005
  Hallway Nodes (1973), "Sons et lumières, Une histoire du son dans l'art du XX° siècle," Museé national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  

• July 22, 2004 - October 10, 2004
  Tiny Deaths (1993), "American Temporary Art of the 1990ies II: Bill Viola - Gary Hill - Roni Horn," Permanent Collection, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

• July 6, 2004 - December 31, 2004
  The Raft (2004), "Transcultures," National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Greece
  
  The exhibition is organized within the frame of the Cultural Olympiad and includes this new work commissioned by the Museum and which will subsequently form part of the EMST's permanent collections.
  
  

• June 24, 2004 - September 11, 2004
  I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like (1986), "Animals," Haunch of Venison, London, UK

• June 22, 2004 - January 2005
  Going Forth By Day (2002), Five Angels for the Millennium (2001), The Messenger (1996), The Crossing (1996), "Bill Viola: Temporality and Transcendence, " Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (In conjunction with Aarhus Kunstmuseum)

• June 16, 2004 - 21, 2004
  "46664" screening at Basel Art Fair, Switzerland
  
  46664 was the prison number of Nelson Mandela on Robben Island, Cape Town where he was held in captivity for 18 years. He was the 466th prisoner to be incarcerated on the island in 1964. In November 2002, Mr Mandela gave his prison number 46664 to Dave Stewart of Eurythmics so that he could use it to help in the fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa by raising money for the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

  46664 - 1 Minute of Art to AIDS features on the specially commissioned Double DVD and premieres the creations of todayÊs leading contemporary artists, all of whom have created a one-minute video in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic currently inflicting Africa. Each artist has used only non-documentary techniques to convey the message of the 46664 campaign through the universal language of art. Hopefully the metaphors that the artists employ reach across cultural and religious barriers to touch the hearts and engage the minds around the world.
  
  

• June 16, 2004 - 21, 2004
  Mary (2000), Basel Art Fair, Switzerland
  
  

• May 5, 2004 - October 3, 2004
  Hall of Whispers (1995), "Laocoon devoured. Art and political violence," Atrium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
  
  

• April 16, 2004
  Déserts (1994), "Varèse portrait", London Sinfonietta, Auditorium Rainier III, Montecarlo, Monaco
  
  

• April 1, 2004
  Emergence (2002), "Preludio" from Pause event (part of Easter Holiday festivities), Duomo Cathedral, Milan, Italy
  
  

• March 25, 2004
  "Departing Angel" from Five Angels for the Millennium (2001), "Last Worlds" from Pause event (part of Easter Holiday festivities), Duomo Cathedral, Milan, Italy
  
  

• February 14, 2004 - April 18, 2004
  Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House (1983) and The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), "Multiple Spaces", Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
  

• February 12, 2004 - June 20, 2004
  Anthem (1983), "Pain", Wellcome Trust Science Museum, London, UK

• February 6, 2004 - December 2004
  Unspoken (Silver & Gold) (2001), "The ARKEN Collection - New Acquisitions", Arken Museum for Modern Kunst, Skovvej, Denmark
  
  

• February 2, 2004 - February 13, 2004
  The Messenger (1996), "Presence", St. Paul's Cathedral, London, UK

• October 20, 2003 - January 4, 2004
  Getty Exhibition Bill Viola: The Passions travels to the National Gallery, London, UK
  
  

• October 15, 2003 - November 12, 2003
  Hall of Whispers (1995), and Zen Concepts (Painting, Objects & Calligraphy), Haunch of Venison, London, UK
  
  

• October 10, 2003 - November 16, 2003
  Six Heads (2000), "Process: Encounters in Living Situations/Shifting Spaces," Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
  

• May 17, 2003 - October 19, 2003
  (JUST EXTENDED! So far, there's been over 107,000 visitors!)
  Five Angels for the Millennium (2001), "Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium," RuhrTriennale, Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany
  
  Please click on the following to view installation photos from this show:
  Photo 1
  Photo 2
  Photo 3
  
  

• April 18, 2003 - March 1, 2004
  Five Angels for the Millennium (2001) , Permanent Collection, Tate Modern, London, UK
  
  

• March 8, 2003 - April 13, 2003
  The Reflecting Pool (1977-1979), The Messenger (1996) and The Quintet of the Silent (2000), "Zero Visibility", Castello di Colonna, Genazzano, Italy
  
  

• Feburary 28, 2003 - June 15, 2003
  Surrender (2001), "Painting Pictures", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
  
  

• October 26, 2002 - January 26, 2003
  The Messenger (1996), "The Nude in 20th Century Art," at the Grosse Kirche, organized by Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, Germany
  
  

• October 25, 2002 - January 26, 2003
  The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), "Real Life," Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom
  
  

• October 15, 2002 - January 5, 2003
  Room for St. John of the Cross (1983), "Synopsis II: Theologies the National Museum of Contemporary Art," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
  
  
• October 10, 2002 - November 24, 2002
  The Quintet of the Silent (2000), The Greeting (1995), "Like Painting," Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  
  
• August 16, 2002 - June 8, 2003
  Surrender (2001), "Warhol to Koons: International Contemporary Art from a Private Collection," Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
  
  

• February 8, 2002 - May 5, 2002
  Going Forth By Day (2002), Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
  
  

ASIA

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

• January 18, 2008 - March 9, 2008
  The Quintet of Remembrance (2000),"Self/Other", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

   

• October 3, 2007 - November 23, 2007
  Old Oak Study (2005) and The Lovers (2005),"Kukje Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition", Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

• September 6, 2007 - September 9, 2007
  Becoming Light (2005) and Poem A (2005),"ShContemporary 07", Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China

• April 21, 2007 - September 1, 2007
  The Reflecting Pool (1977-79),"Views of Water", Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

• January 23, 2007 - March 21, 2007
  Hatsu-Yume (First Dream), (1981), The Crossing (1996), The Greeting (1995), The Quintet of the Astonished (2000), Four Hands (2001), Observance (2002), Surrender (2001), The Raft (May 2004) "Bill Viola: Hatsu Yume (First Dream)", Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan

   

• October 14, 2006 - January 8, 2007
  Hatsu-Yume (First Dream), (1981), The Crossing (1996), The Stopping Mind (1991), The Veiling (1995), Heaven and Earth (1992), The Greeting (1995), The Quintet of the Astonished (2000), Anima (2000), Dolorosa (2000), Silent Mountain (2001), Four Hands (2001), Observance (2002), Catherine’s Room (2001), Surrender (2001), The Raft (May 2004), Five Angels for the Millennium (2001),"Bill Viola: Hatsu Yume (First Dream)", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

• Bill Viola introduces the Mori show to Japanese audiences.
• February 25, 2005 - May 7, 2006
  Surrender (2001), "To the Human Future: Flight From the Dark Side," Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

• October 5, 2004 - December 26, 2004
  Science of the Heart (1983), "In Bed," Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota City, Japan

• September 28, 2004 - November 28, 2004
  Ascension (2000), "Shanghai Biennale," Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

• April 27, 2004 - August 1, 2004
  Information (1973), "Modern Means," Mori Art Museum , Tokyo, Japan
  
  

• April 10, 2003 - June 6, 2004
  Remembrance (2002), Study for The Voyage (2002) & Unspoken (2001), "Lonely Planet," Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
  

• November 18, 2003 - January 18, 2004
  The Greeting (1995), "PRO-Smotr, International Exhibition of Video Art" ,The State Hermitage Museum and The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
  
  

• October 28, 2003 - December 21, 2003
  Room for St. John of the Cross (1983), "Traveling - Towards the Border," National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
  
  
• October 18, 2003 - January 18, 2004
  Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Hear) (1979), "Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  
  

• March 19, 2003 - April 30, 2003
  Bill Viola, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
  
  

• July 17, 2002 - August 25, 2002
  Five Angels for the Millennium (2001), "The Power of Art," Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
  
  

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

• September 11, 2007 - December 7, 2007
  Observance (2002) ,"Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth 2007", The John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Western Australia

• July 29, 2005 - November 6, 2005
  Bill Viola: The Passions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

• April 18 - July 6, 2003
  Incrementation (1996), Memoria (2000) and Six Heads (2000), "Journey to Now: John Kaldor Art Projects and Collection", Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
  
  

• October 5, 2002; 19:00 pm to 8:00 am
  The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), "Plus Qu'une Image," Nuit Blanche/Nuit Vidéo, 5 rue Curial (19e), Paris, France
  Request a program at: plusquuneimage@wanadoo.fr
  
  

• February 28 - April 28, 2002
  The Veiling (1995), "Material World: From Lichtenstein to Viola," 25-Years of The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
  
  

SOUTH AMERICA

• November 8 - December 15, 2004The Greeting (1995), "In Time, No Time," Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil

• May 27 - September 9, 2004
  Union (2000), "Hiper: arte electronica/digital", Santander Culture Center, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  
  

• May 3 - July 11, 2004
  Te Quintet of the Silent (2000), "Reincarnated Painting", Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  
  

MEXICO

• October 5, 2007 - February 14, 2008
  The Quintet of the Silent (2000), "Timeless", Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico

MIDDLE EAST

• September 3, 2007 - February 2008
  The Reflecting Pool (1977-79),"Building Bridges",Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran

• December 4, 2003 - January 3, 2004
  Observance (2002), "Art Focus 4" , The Israel Museum,