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Learn about the life and work of Bill Viola, one of the world’s leading contemporary artists and a pioneer in new media, video, and installation art. Explore his visionary environments, his themes of birth, death, and consciousness, and his legacy of influence and innovation.
- Past Exhibitions
The Reflecting Pool-- Collected Work 1977-80, "Bill Viola:...
- Biography
Bill Viola (b.1951) is internationally recognized as one of...
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In English and Italian. Reprinted and expanded as Bill...
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Bill with Charlie Rose, discussing video art and...
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In additon, "phrases" from two Bill Viola works may be...
- Past Exhibitions
Learn about the life and work of Bill Viola, a pioneer of video art and electronic media who explored human experiences such as birth, death, and consciousness. Find out his artistic influences, achievements, collaborations, and death from Alzheimer's disease.
Jul 13, 2024 · Bill Viola, an artist who brought a timeless-seeming sense of beauty and age-old spirituality to the newfangled genre of video art, becoming one of the medium’s most influential and popular...
Learn about Bill Viola, one of the pioneers of video art, who explores universal human experiences and spiritual traditions in his installations and performances. Discover his travels, collaborations, awards, and exhibitions around the world.
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William "Bill" Viola was born and grew up in Queens, New York. He was a very shy, introverted child and found his internal world far more interesting and engaging than his external world of friends and family. He spent a lot of time drawing and by the age of three, with the help of his mother, he had perfected drawing motorboats. Once in school, th...
After graduating from high school, Viola enrolled at Syracuse University in New York. While he had intended to attend art school, his father urged him to pursue a more conventional liberal arts education. Later, he admitted, "In saying that he saved me. A lot of my friends were planning to go to art school and had I gone with them I would have been...
In 1983, Viola was hired by the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California to teach Advanced Video courses. Around that same time, he had become increasingly dissatisfied with the work he was producing, felt that he was losing his creative spirit, and that he lacked inspiration. For two years he struggled to continue producing his vid...
Bill Viola was instrumental in establishing video art as a viable medium in contemporary art. Overall, the works are powerful - for example art theorist Cynthia Freeland describes Viola's work as "'excessive': not only does its scale of presentation increasingly tend towards the grandiose, but the effects of encountering it may exceed our capacity ...
Learn about Bill Viola, one of the earliest and most influential video artists, who explores themes of life, death, and spirituality with experimental techniques and immersive installations. Discover his biography, ideas, accomplishments, and important artworks.
- American
- January 25, 1951
- Queens, NY
Jul 13, 2024 · Artist Bill Viola, whose pioneering work with video since the 1970s opened the door to what would become a major artform internationally, has died. He was 73.
Feb 29, 2012 · Learn about Bill Viola, one of the masters of video art since the 1970s, who explored human experiences such as birth, death, and consciousness. See his works, exhibitions, publications, and tribute at MoMA.
