Bill Viola
Biography
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.
Acting (9 movies)
Directing (80 movies)
The Stopping Mind
1990
The Passing
1992
Vegetable Memory
1980
Silent Life
1986
Moonblood
1979
Slowly Turning Narrative
1992
Memories Of Ancestral Power
1977
Anthem
1983
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
1981
The Veiling
1995
Ancient of Days
1982
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
1979
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
1986
The Nantes Triptych
1992
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
1976
The Reflecting Pool
1979
The Greeting
1995
Fire Woman
2005
The Space Between the Teeth
1976
Sodium Vapor
1986
Junkyard Levitation
1976
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
1983
Songs of Innocence
1976
Truth Through Mass Individuation
1976
Four Songs
1976
A Phrase from Chris
2011
A Million Other Things (2)
1975
Red Tape: Collected Works
1975
The Semi-Circular Canals
1975
Playing Soul Music to My Freckles
1975
A Non-Dairy Creamer
1975
Return
1975
Déserts
1994
Heaven and Earth
1992
Going Forth By Day
2002
Surrender
2001
Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity
2013
Inverted Birth
2014
The Dreamers
2013
Three Women
2008
The Tristan Project
2004
The Path
2002
Fire Birth
2002
The Crossing
1996
The Wheel of Becoming
1977
Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
1977
Angel's Gate
1989
The Morning After the Night of Power
1977
Sweet Light
1977
The Raft
2004
Martyrs
2014
He Weeps for You
1977
Ocean Without a Shore
2007
Eternal Return
2000
Mary
2016
The Voyage
2002
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
2018
Ascension
2000
Emergence
2003
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
2005
The Encounter
2012
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers
1984
The Sleepers
1992
Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979
1979
Information
1973
Walking on the Edge
2012
The Quintet of the Astonished
2000
Anima
2000
Ablutions
2005
Catherine's Room
2001
Four Hands
2001
Martyrs: Fire
2014
Martyrs: Earth
2014
Martyrs: Water
2014
Basin of Tears
2005
Martyrs: Air
2014
The Innocents
2008
Traveling on Foot
2012
Interval
1995
Poem B (The Guest House)
2006
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Return | 1975 | Writer |
| The Reflecting Pool | 1979 | Writer |
| Hatsu Yume (First Dream) | 1981 | Producer |
| Hatsu Yume (First Dream) | 1981 | Writer |
| Anthem | 1983 | Writer |
| Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House | 1983 | Writer |
| I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like | 1986 | Producer |
| Déserts | 1994 | Writer |
| Going Forth By Day | 2002 | Writer |
| The Raft | 2004 | Writer |
| Mary | 2016 | Writer |