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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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

    NORTH AMERICA

  • April 14-16, 2013
    Video Screenings & Convocation Lecture, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI

    -April 14, 4pm: "Vision as reception," Sweet Light (1977), Ancient of Days (1979-81), Chott el-Djerid (1979), Auditorium of Wriston Art Center

    -April 15, 7pm: "Vision as reflection," The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), Hatsu-Yume (First Dream) (1981), Angel’s Gate (1989), Auditorium of Wriston Art Center

    -April 16, 11:10am: Convocation Lecture, "Artless Art," Lawrence Memorial Chapel

    -April 16, 7pm: "Vision as reflection," Migration (1976), I Do Not Know What it is I am Like (1986), Auditorium of Wriston Art Center

  • July 20, 2013
    "2013 National Artist Award Recipient," Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO

  • June 27 - October 27, 2013
    The Reflecting Pool (1977-79), "Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art," The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco

  • Fall 2013 - Fall 2014
    Going Forth By Day (2002), "Arc of Life," Chamber Music Monterrey Bay, Carmel, CA
    -George Tsontakis St. Lawrence String Quartet, with Soprano (Fall 2013)
    -Chris Theofanidis Miró String Quartet (Fall 2014)


    CENTRAL/SOUTH AMERICA

  • April 25 - July 7, 2013
    Chott el-Djerid (1979), "Revedecer. Paisaje 1969-2013," Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City

  • June 29 - September 1, 2013
    Reverse Television-- Portraits of Viewers (1983-84), "Video Vintage," Oi Futuro Cultural Center Belo Horizonte, Brazil


EUROPE

  • April 15 - May 20, 2013
    The Passing (1991), "Contemplating Death," Moscow Media Art Lab, Russia

  • June 5 - July 27, 2013
    New Works, "Bill Viola: Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures," Blain|Southern, London

  • June 22 - September 30, 2013
    The Lovers (2005), "Etre humain et le savoir ensemble," 6th International Contemporary Art Biennale of Melle, France


    MIDDLE EAST

    April 18 - June 27, 2013
    Reverse Television-- Portraits of Viewers (1983-84), "Video Vintage," Beruit Art Center, Lebanon


ASIA

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

NORTH AMERICA

  • January 31 - May 5, 2013
    Tempest (Study for The Raft) (2004), "Seismic Shifts," National Academy Museum, New York

  • February 13 - August 11, 2013
    Ascension (2000), "Bill Viola: Ascension," Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT

  • February 26 - September 1, 2013
    Acceptance (2008), "Turbulences II," Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium

  • January 25, 2012 - March 19, 2013
    The Reflecting Pool-- Collected Work 1977-80, "Bill Viola: The Reflecting Pool-- Collected Work 1977-80," Hand Art Center, Stetson University, Deland, FL

  • August 26 - March 24, 2013
    The Raft (2004), "Bill Viola: The Raft," The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

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

EUROPE

  • March 4 - 22, 2013
    Three Women (2008), "Ibn Arabi International Film Festival," Palacio Almindi, Murcia, Spain

  • January 24, 2013 - April 7, 2013
    Six Heads (2000), "Through a Glass Darkly: Faces Past and Present," Museum Ernst, Budapest, Hungary

  • December 14, 2012 - June 30, 2013
    Anthem (1983), Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House (1983), Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait of Light and Heat (1980), "Correspondences: Modern Art and Universalism," Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland

  • December 1, 2012 - April 7, 2013
    Three Women (2008), "About Caravaggio," Museo Tuscolano, Frascati (Rome), Italy

  • December 8, 2012 - April 8, 2013
    Isolde's Ascension (The Shape of Life in the Space After Death) (2005), "Fortuny and Wagner," Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

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


    MIDDLE EAST

  • February 8 - October 10, 2013
    I Do Not Know What it is I Am Like (1986), "Flesh & Blood," Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem

ASIA

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

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