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Bill Viola

(American, born 1951)

Bill Viola

Howard, 2008

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Biography

Timeline

1951: Born in New York, USA
1984: Polaroid Video Art Award for outstanding achievement, USA
1987: Maya Deren Award, American Film Institute, USA
1993: Skowhegan Medal (Video Installation), USA
1995: Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, Syracuse University, New York, USA
1997: Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
1998: Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, USA
1999: Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2000: Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, USA
: Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, England
2003: Cultural Leadership Award, American Federal of Arts, USA
2004: Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, Royal College of Art, London, England
2005: Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2006: NORD/LB Art Prize, Bremen, Germany
: Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California, USA
2009: Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts, MIT, Cambridge, MA
: Catalonia International Prize, Barcelona, Spain
2011: Arents Award for Distinguished Alumni, Syracuse University, New York
: Praemium Imperiale, the Japan Art Association, Tokyo
: Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Liege, Belgium
2013: National Artist Award, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO
: Aurora Award, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
: Lives and works with Kira Perov, wife and collaborator, in Long Beach, CA, USA
: BFA, Experimental Studios, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

Exhibitions

2014: “Bill Viola: Transformation,” Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, China
: “Tristan und Isolde,” Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain
: “Bill Viola: In Dialogue,” Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando Madrid, Spain
: “Bill Viola,” Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France
: “Revival of Tristan at La Bastille,” Opera Bastille, Paris, France
: “Bill Viola: Passions,” Cathedral of Berne & Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
: “Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water),”(Permanent), St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, UK
2013: “Bill Viola: Ascension,” Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
: “Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures,” Blain|Southern, London, UK
: “Bill Viola: The Return,” Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
: “Point of Departure,” Parque de La Memoria, Buenos Aries, Argentina
: “Bill Viola: Water,” Nordic Watercolor Museum, Skarhamn, Sweden
: “Bill Viola: Reflections,” Villa di Panza, Varese, Italy
: “Bill Viola: Liber Insularum,” Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Florida, USA
: “Bill Viola: Unspoken,” James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
2012: “Bill Viola: The Raft,” Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
: “Bill Viola: Submerged-Spaces,” Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
2011: “Bill Viola: Quintet of the Unseen,” Blain|Southern, London, UK
: “Bill Viola: Liber Insularum,” Sala de Arte Contemporaneo del Gobierno de Canarias, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
: “Bill Viola: Transformations,” Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
: “Amore e Morte,” Gucci Museum, Florence, Italy
: “Ocean Without a Shore,” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, USA
: “Bill Viola: The Raft,” Presented by ACMI for the Melbourne International Arts Festival in association with Kaldor Public Art Projects, Melbourne, Australia
: “Bill Viola: Fire Woman and Tristan’s Ascension,” Presented by Kaldor Public Art Projects in association with the Melbourne International Arts Festival; St. Carthage's Church, Melbourne, Australia
: “Bill Viola: Figurative Works,” Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain
: “Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Astonished,” Urban Video Project, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA
2010: “Bill Viola per Capodimonte,” The Museo di Capodimonte of Naples, Naples, Italy
: “Emergence: Bill Viola at the Accademia Gallery,” Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy
2009: Mythologies, Haunch of Venison London, UK.
: Silent Mountain (2001), Four Hands (2001), Catherine's Room (2001), Ascension (2000), will be shown in the exhibition Being Time, The Pier Art Centre, Stromness, Orkney, UK (solo)
: Tristan et Isolde, Opera National de Paris, France (solo)
2008: Ocean Without a Shore (2007), The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea (solo)
: Migration (1976), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA
2007: 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2006: Los Angeles 1955 – 1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2005: A Kind of Magic, Lucerne Museum of Art, Switzerland
: The Passions, J. Paul Getty Museum exhibition travels to Fundación la Caixa, Madrid, Spain and National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia (solo)
: Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, USA
2004: L'Ombre du temps, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
: Transcultures, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2003: "Bill Viola: The Passions", The J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
2002: "Like Painting", Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
: "Bill Viola: Going Forth By Day", Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York
: "Bill Viola: Going Forth By Day", Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
: Synopsis II: Theologies at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
: Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, PS1, MoMA, Long Island, New York, USA
: "Bill Viola: The Quintet of Rememberance", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
: "Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium and other new works", Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
2001: Artcité: When Montreal Turns into a Museum, Musée d‟Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada
: Hieronymous Bosch, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherland Plateau of Humankind, Forty-Ninth Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2000: "Bill Viola: Stations", Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
: "Bill Viola: New Work", James Cohan Gallery, New York
1997: "Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey" (organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art), Travels to Chapelle Saint-Louise de la Salpetriere, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1998); Stedelijk Museum
: "Bill Viola: Fire, Water, Breath", Guggenheim Museum (SoHo), New York
1996: "Bill Viola: The Messenger"(organized by the Chaplaincy to the Arts and Recreation, Northeast England), Durham Cathedral, Visual Arts Festival UK 1996, Durham, England. Traveled from 1997-1998
: "Bill Viola: New Work", Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
: 3e Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, Musée d‟Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
1995: "Buried Secrets"(organized by Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe), United States Pavilion, 46th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Travels to Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (1995) as "Buried Secrets/Vergrabene Geheimnisse"; Arizona State
1994: "Bill Viola: Territorio do Invisivel/Site of the Unseen", Centro Cultural/Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1993: "Bill Viola", Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal
1992: "Bill Viola. Unseen Images/Niegesehene Bilder/Images jamais vues ", Stadtische Sweden (1993); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (1993); Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (1993); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England (1993), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (1994)
: "Bill Viola: Two Installations", Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England
: "Bill Viola", Donald Young Gallery, Seattle; Washington
: Passages de l’image, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1990: "Bill Viola: The Sleep of Reason", Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France
1989: "Bill Viola", Fukui Fine Arts Museum of Art, Fukui City, Japan, The 3rd Fukui International Video Biennale
1988: American Landscape Video: The Electronic Grove, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

Public Collections

: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
: Denver Art Museum, Colorado
: Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
: Fondation Cartier, Paris
: Fundacío la Caixa Centre Cultural, Barcelona
: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
: Arken, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen
: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
: Art Institute of Chicago
: Berardo Collection, Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Lisbon
: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
: Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
: Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
: De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands

Bill Viola

(American, born 1951)

Bill Viola

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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