Bill Viola
A pioneer in the medium of video art, Bill Viola's work explores the spiritual and perceptual side of human experience. Since 1970 he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances and pieces for television. Works include Hatsu Yume (First Dream), The Passing, and installations Room for St. John of the Cross, The Messenger and The Quintet of the Astonished, recently shown at the National Gallery, London in "Encounters, New Art from Old". A 25-year survey exhibition of his work organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art recently traveled to 6 institutions in the USA and Europe. MacArthur Fellow.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 3.128 |
Birthday | 1951-01-25 |
Place of Birth | Queens, New York, USA |
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2002
The Voyage
0/0
The fourth video in the five-part digital-image cycle project "Going Forth By Day" (2002), "The Voyage" features an elderly man who is dying, surround...
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The Voyage
1983
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
5.25/4
Viola experimental short
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Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
1975
Return
6.892/293
Return is a methodical construction of the approach of an individual towards an unseen goal, which assumes metaphorical significance. Viola moves towa...
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Return
1986
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
6.7/6
"I Do Not Know What It Is that I Am Like" juxtaposes images of animals, both wild and domestic, and natural environments with human activity as it tak...
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I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
2003
Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart
7/2
Hailed as the "Rembrandt of the Video Age," renowned American artist Bill Viola became the first contemporary artist ever to be featured in a one-man...
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Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart
1979
The Reflecting Pool
5.6/15
Viola's seminal piece, The Reflecting Pool, was made three decades ago on analogue video tape and yet could easily pass for a contemporary digital pie...
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The Reflecting Pool
2017
Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's
5.2/3
Gerald Fox’s film documents Bill Viola and his wife and close collaborator Kira Perov’s odyssey to create two permanent video installations for London...
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Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's
2013
What Is Cinema?
6.2/20
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, Da...
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