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Bill
Viola
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| 1951 |
Born, 25 January in New York
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| 1960 |
Captain of the "TV Squad", 5th Grade,
PS 20 Queens, NYC.
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| 1973 |
Graduated, BFA, Experimental Studios, College of Visual
and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, New York.
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| 1973-80 |
Studies/performs with composer David Tudor and new music
group "Rainforest" (later called "Composers
Inside Electronics").
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| 1974-76 |
Technical director in charge of production, ART/Tapes/22
Video Studio, Florence, Italy.
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| 1976-83 |
Artist-in-residence, WNET Thirteen Television Laboratory,
New York.
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| 1976 |
Travels to Solomon Islands, South Pacific to record traditional
music and dance, and document Moro cult movement
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| 1977 |
Travels to Solo City, Java, Indonesia to record traditional
performing arts with composer /ethnomusicologist Alex
Dea
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| 1979 |
Travels to Sahara desert, Tunisia to videotape mirages
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| 1980-81 |
Lives in Japan. Studies traditional culture and video
technolgy
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| 1981 |
Artist-in-residence, Atsugi Laboratories, Sony Corporation,
Japan
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| 1982 |
Travels to Ladkh in Himalayas, northern India to observe
religious art and ritual in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries
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| 1983 |
Instructor, advance video, California Institute of Arts,
Valencia, California
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| 1984 |
Artist-in-residence, San Diego Zoo, San Diego, California
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| 1984 |
Travels to Fiji, South Pacific to document fire walking
ceremony of the South Indian community in Suva
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| 1987 |
Travels throughout Southwest US to study ancient Native
American archaeological sites and rock art
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| 1992 |
First one-man European tour
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| 1995 |
Selected to represent America in the 46th Venice Biennale
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| 1997 |
Receives honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, The Art
Institute of Chicago, Illinois
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| 1998 |
Receives honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, Massachusetts
College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
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| 2000 |
Elected
to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Receives honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, California
Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California |
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Selected one person exhibitions
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| 1973 |
New Video Work (installation, videotapes) Everson
Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
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| 1974 |
Bill Viola: Video and Sound Installation (four
installations) The Kitchen Center, New York
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| 1975 |
Rain - Three Interlocking Systems Everson Museum
of Art, Syracuse, New York
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| 1977 |
Bill Viola (installation, videotapes) The Kitchen
Center, New York
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| 1978 |
Projects: Bill Viola (installation) The Museum
of Modern Art, New York
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| 1980 |
Bill Viola (videotapes) Long Beach Museum of Art,
Long Beach, California
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| 1981 |
Bill Viola (videotapes) Vancouver Art gallery,
Vancouver, Canada
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| 1982 |
Bill Viola (videotapes) Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York
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| 1983 |
Bill Viola (two installations, videotapes) Arc,
Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
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| 1985 |
Summer 1985 (two installations, videotapes) Museum
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles - Nine individual exhibitions.
Heaven and Hell, Bill Viola: Video Installation Premiere
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Bill Viola (installation, videotapes) Moderna Museet,
Stockholm, Sweden
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| 1987 |
Bill Viola: Installations and Videotapes (three
installations and videotapes) The Museum of Modern Art,
New York
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| 1988 |
Bill Viola: Survey of a Decade (two installations,
videotapes) Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Bill Viola: Video Installation and Videotapes Riverside
Studios, Hammersmith, England
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| 1989 |
Bill Viola: The City of Man (installation) Brockton
Art Museum, Fuller Memorial, Brockton,
Massachusetts.
Bill Viola (five installations) Fukui Prefectural
Museum of Art, Fukui City, Japan - Part of The 3rd Fukui
International Video Biennale
Bill Viola: Installations and Videotapes (Two installations
and videotapes) The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
Bill Viola: Sanctuary (installation) Capp Street
Project, San Francisco, CA
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| 1990 |
Bill Viola: The Sleep of Reason (two installations,
videotape) Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain,
Jouy-en-Josas, France
Bill Viola: He Weeps for You (installation, videotapes)
LA BOX, Ecole National des Beaux Arts, Bourges, France
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| 1991 |
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House (installation,
videotapes) North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North
Dakota
Bill Viola: Video Projects (videotapes) Museum
fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
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| 1992 |
The Sleep of Reason (installation) Dallas Museum
of Art, Dallas, Texas
Bill Viola (five installations) Donald Young Gallery,
Seattle, Washington
Bill Viola: Nantes Triptych (installation) Chappelle
de l'Oratoire, Musée de Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
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| 1992 |
Bill Viola: Slowly Turning Narrative (installation)
Institute of Contemporay Arts, Philadelphia and Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.
Toured to: Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal,
Canada, 1993\; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianpolis,
Indiana, 1993\; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego,
California, 1993\; Museum of the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida,
1994\; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, 1994\;
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, 1994.
Bill Viola: Il Vapore and Reasons for Knocking at an
Empty House (two installations) Anthony d'Offay Gallery,
London
Bill Viola: Unseen Images (seven installations,
videotapes) Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf,
Germany, 1992\; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 1992\;
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain,
1993\; Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne,
Switzerland, 1993\; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England,
1993\; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1994.
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| 1993 |
Bill Viola (six installations, videotapes) Musée
d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal,
Canada
Bill Viola: In the Mind's Eye: A Sacred Space (videotapes)
Oriel Art Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
Bill Viola: An Instrument of Simple Sensation, 1983
(installation) Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London.
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| 1994 |
Bill Viola: Stations (installation) The American
Center Inaugural Opening, Paris, France
Bill Viola: Pneuma and Tiny Deaths Salzburger Kunstverein,
Salzburg, Austria
Bill Viola: Territorio do Invisivel (four installations,
videotapes) Centro Cultural/Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janiero,
Brazil.
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| 1995 |
Bill Viola: Buried Secrets American representative
for the Venice Biennale.
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| 1997 |
The Messenger South London Gallery, 18 February
- 30 March; "Video Positive Moviola",
Liverpool, 11 April - 18 May; Fruitmarket, Edinburgh,
7 June - 26 July; Oriel Gallery, Wales, July - September
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| 1998 |
Bill Viola, A Retrospective Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, 2 Nov 1997 - 11 Jan1998; Whitney Museum
of American Art, NYC 12 Feb -10 May 1998; Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam September- December 1998; Museum fur
Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt 22 Jan - 4 April 1999; San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art June - September 1999;
The Art Institute of Chicago 13 October 1999 - 16 January
2000
The Messenger Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign-Urbana, ILL, April 1998
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| 2000 |
The
World of Appearances Helaba Main Tower, Frankfurt,
Germany (permanent installation)
Bill Viola: Stations, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Bill Viola: Video Installations, Detroit Institute
of the Arts, Michigan
Bill Viola: New York, James Cohan Gallery, New
York
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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| 1972 |
St. Jude Invitational Exhibition, De Saisset Art
Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, California (videotape)
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| 1974 |
Projekt '74, Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (videotape)
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| 1975-77 |
La Biennale de Paris, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne
de la Ville de Paris, France (videotape)
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| 1976 |
Beyond the Artist's Hand: Explorations of Change,
Art Gallery, California State University, Long Beach (installation)
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| 1977 |
Documenta VI, Friedericianum, Kassel, Germany
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| 1978 |
International Open Encounter on Video, Tokyo '78,
Tokyo, Japan (performance)
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| 1979 |
Everson Video Review, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse,
New York (videotape)
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| 1981 |
International Video Art Festival, Theme Pavilion,
Portopia '81, Kobe, Japan (videotape)
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| 1982 |
'60'80 attitudes/concepts/images, Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (videotapes)
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| 1985 |
Currents, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston,
Massachusetts (installation)
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| 1987 |
L'époque, la mode, la morale, la passion. Aspects
de l'art d'aujourd'hui, Musée National d'Art
Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (videotape)
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| 1988 |
American Landscape Video, The Electronic Grove,
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (installation)
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| 1989 |
Image World, Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum
of American Art (installation)
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| 1990 |
Passages de l'image, Musée National d'Art
Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou.
Travels to: Centre Culturel Fondation Caixa de Pensions,
Barcelona, Spain (1991) Wexner Art Center, Columbus, Ohio
(1991) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
(1992) (installation)
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| 1991 |
Opening Exhibition, Museum für Moderne Kunst,
Frankfurt, Germany (installation)
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| 1992 |
Manifeste, Musée National d'Art Moderne,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (installation) Documenta
IX, Kassel, Germany (installation)
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| 1993 |
New World Images, Louisiana Museum of Modern
Art, Humblebaek, Denmark (installation)
American Art in the 20th Century, Martin-Gropius-Bau,
Berlin and the Royal Academy, London (installation)
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| 1994 |
Landscape as Metaphor, Denver Art Museum and
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio (installation)
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| 1995 |
Five Rooms, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London (installation)
Video Spaces: Eight Installations, The Museum
of Modern Art, New York (installation)
Rites of Passage, Tate Gallery, London (installation)
3e Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, Musée
d'art contemporain, Lyon (installation)
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| 1996 |
Portrait of the Artist, Anthony d'Offay Gallery,
London (two installations)
Islands: Contemporary Installations from Australia,
Asia, Europe and America, National Gallery of Australia,
Canberra (installation)
Being and Time: The Emergence of Video Projection,
Albright- Knox Art Gallery, New York. (travelling exhibition)
(installation)
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| 1997 |
Changing Spaces, organized by The Fabric Workshop
and Museum, Florida Arts Festival of Atlanta, Georgia
(1997-98) Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan (1997-98)
Vancouver Art Museum, British Columbia (1998) (two installations,
except at Miami Art Museum, one installation)
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| 1999 |
àlbum,
Una selecció dels fons de la Fondation Cartier
pour l'art Contemporain, Fundació Joan Miro,
Barcelona, Spain
Drip, Blow, Burn: Forces of Nature in Contemporary
Art, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
The New Man, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden,
Germany
Fondation Cartier Collection, Centro Cultural
de Belen, Lisbon, Portugal
The American Century, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York
Modern Starts: People, places, and Things, Museum
of Modern Art, New York
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| 2000 |
Auf Leben und Tod, Stuttgart, Germany
Between Cinema and a Hard Place, Tate Modern,
London
Encounters: New Art from Old, National Gallery,
London
Déserts, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
Media Art 2000, organized by inter media_city
2000, Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Korea
Spectacular Bodies, Hayward Gallery, London
Made in California Art, Image, Identity, Los
Angeles County Museum of Art
Festival d'Automne 2000, L'Eglise Saint-Eustache,
Paris, France
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Selected
Fellowships/Awards
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| 1980 |
Japan/U.S. Creative Arts Fellowship
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| 1982 |
Rockefeller Foundation, Video Artist Fellowship
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| 1983/89 |
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship,
Video
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| 1984 |
Polaroid Video Art Award for outstanding achievement
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| 1985 |
J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship,
Video
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| 1987 |
Maya Deren Award, American Film Institute
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| 1989 |
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award
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| 1991 |
Rockefeller Foundation Intercultural Film/Video Fellowship
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| 1993 |
Medienkunstpreis, Siemens Kulturprogramm and Zentrum
für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
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| 1998 |
Getty Scholar, The Getty Research Institute for
the History of Art
and the Humanities
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| 2000 |
Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
Selected
Prizes for Videotapes
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Chott
el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) (1979)
1980 Grand Prize, Portopia International Video Art
Festival, Kobe, Japan
1982 Jury Prize, U.S. Film and Video Festival, Park
City, Utah
Hatsu Yume (First Dream) (1981)
1983 Grand Prize U.S. Film and Video Festival, Park
City, Utah
1983 Jury Prize, Video Culture/Canada, Toronto
Anthem (1983)
1984 Grand Prize, Video Art, Video Culture/Canada,
Toronto
1984 First Prize, Video Art, Athens Film/Video Festival,
Ohio
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like (1986)
1987 First Prize, Videoart, 8e Festival International
D'Art Video et
des Nouvelles Images Electroniques de Locarno, Lago
Maggiore, Switzerland
1987 Supervideo Prize, L'Immagine Elettronica, Video
Festival Europei, Bologna, Italy
The Passing (1991)
1993 First Prize, Festival Internacional de Video,
Cidade de Vigo, Spain |
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