Bill Viola

Bill Viola (født 25. januar 1951 i Queens, New York City) er en moderne videokunstner hvis værker, har fokus på grundlæggende menneskelige erfaringer, som fødsel, død og aspekter af bevidsthed.

I Danmark har han bl.a. været udstillet på Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum og Copenhagen Contemporary.

Opvækst og uddannelse 
Viola er opvokset i Queens, New York, og Westbury. På en bjergferie med familien, oplevede han næsten at drukne i en sø, en oplevelse, som han beskriver som "... den smukkeste verden, jeg nogensinde har set i mit liv" og "uden frygt," og "fredfyldt."

Viola blev færdiguddannet fra Syracuse University i 1973 med en Bachelor i Fine Arts. Han studerede Experimental Studios of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, og fulgte her bl.a. det såkaldte Synapse experimental program, som
udviklet sig til CitrusTV.

Karriere 
Viola's første job efter være blevet færdiguddannet som videotekniker var på Everson Museum of Art i Syracuse. I perioden 1973 til 1980 optrådte han bl.a. med komponisten David Tudor i bandet Rainforest (der senere skiftede navn til Composers Inside Electronics). Fra 1974-1976 arbejdede Viola som teknisk leder hos , et videoproduktionsselskab i Firenze. Her mødte han videokunstnerne Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, og Vito Acconci. Fra 1976 til 1983 var han huskunstner hos WNET Thirteen Television Laboratory i New York. Han rejste til Salomonøerne og Indonesien i 1976 og 1977, for her at lave optagelser af traditionelle ritualer og skikke.
IllArticle nameArt/tapes/221st language codeitI 1983 blev han underviser i Advanced Video på California Institute of the Arts, i Californien.

Senere i 2000 blev han valgt til American Academy of Arts and Sciences. I 2002 færdiggjorde han Going Forth By Day, et arbejde bestilt af Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin og Guggenheim Museum, New York.

I 2003 blev The Passions udstillet i Los Angeles, London, Madrid og Canberra.

Bill Viola Studio 
Bill Viola Studio er drevet af hans kone, Kira Perov, der er administrerende direktør. Hun har arbejdet med Viola siden 1978 styring og hjælpe Viola med hans videobånd og installationer samt dokumentation af hans arbejde. Alle publikationer fra studiet er redigeret af Perov.

Observance 
Observance 2002, er et arbejde, der delvis skal fortolkes som en reaktion på den September 11, 2001 Terrorangreb. Kameraet er her placeret i øjenhøjde en med række af personer i forskellige aldre. Som værket udfolder sig, ser man hver enkelt person i en tilstand af intens—men rolig—sorg.

Soloudstillinger 
 1973 "New Video Work," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
 1974 "Bill Viola: Video and Sound Installations," The Kitchen Center, New York
 1979 "Projects: Bill Viola," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
 1983 "Bill Viola," ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
 1985 "Summer 1985," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
 1985 "Bill Viola," Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
 1987 "Bill Viola: Installations and Videotapes," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
 1988 "Bill Viola: Survey of a Decade," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
 1989 "Bill Viola," Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui City, Japan, part of The 3rd Fukui International Video Biennale.
 1990 "Bill Viola: The Sleep of Reason," Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France
 1991 "Bill Viola: The Passing," South London Gallery, London, England
 1992 "Bill Viola: Nantes Triptych," Chapelle de l'Oratoire, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France
 1992 "Bill Viola," Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington (five installations)
 1992 "Bill Viola: Two Installations," Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England
 1992 "Bill Viola. Unseen Images," Stadtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany. Travels to: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (1993); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (1993); Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (1993); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England (1993), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (1994)
 1994 "Bill Viola: Stations," American Center inaugural opening, Paris, France
 1994 "Bill Viola: Território do Invisível/Site of the Unseen," Centro Cultural/Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 1995 "Buried Secrets," United States Pavilion, 46th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Travels to Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (1995); Arizona State University Art Museum (1996)
 1996 "Bill Viola: New Work," Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia (installation)
 1996 "Bill Viola: The Messenger," Durham Cathedral, Visual Arts UK 1996, Durham, England. Travels to South London Gallery, London, England (1996); Video Positiva-Moviola, Liverpool, England; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (1997); La Chapelle Saint Louis de la Salpetriere, Paris
 1997 “Bill Viola: Fire, Water, Breath,” Guggenheim Museum (SoHo), New York
 1997 “Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey” organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art (catalogue). Travels to Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1998); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1998) (catalogue); Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (1999); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California (1999); Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (1999–2000)
 2000 “The World of Appearances,” Helaba Main Tower, Frankfurt, Germany (permanent installation)
 2000 “Bill Viola: New Work,” James Cohan Gallery, New York
 2000 “Bill Viola: Stations,” Museum für Neue Kunst|ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
 2001 “Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium,” Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
 2002 "Bill Viola: Going Forth By Day," Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
 2003 "Bill Viola: The Passions," Getty Museum, Los Angeles
 2003 "Bill Viola," Kukje Gallery, Seoul
 2003 "Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium," Ruhrtriennale, Gasometer, Oberhausen, Germany
 2003 "Bill Viola: The Passions," National Gallery, London
 2004 "Bill Viola: Temporality and Transcendence," Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
 2005 "Bill Viola: The Passions," Fundación "la Caixa," Madrid, Spain
 2005 "Bill Viola Visions," ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
 2005 "Bill Viola," James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
 2005 "Tristan und Isolde," fully staged opera premiere at the Opéra National de Paris, France
 2006 "Bill Viola – Video", 2006 Recipient of the NORD/LB Art Prize, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
 2006 "LOVE/DEATH The Tristan Project," Haunch of Venison (two venues), London, UK
 2007 "Bill Viola: Hatsu-Yume (First Dream)", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Hyōgo Prefectural Art Museum, Kobe, Japan, including the 56-minute title piece and many works from the artist's private collection.
 2007 "Bill Viola: Four hands (2001), Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland.
 2007 "Ocean without a shore", San Gallo Church, Venice, Italy.
 2008 "Bill Viola: Hatsu-Yume (First Dream)", [CACMalaga], Spain until 30 April.
 2008 "Visioni interiori", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy.
 2008-9 "Bill Viola: Ocean without a shore", National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.
 2009 "Bill Viola: Intimate work", Museum De Pont, Tilburg, Netherlands.
 2010-11 "Bill Viola: The Raft", Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and Kaldor Public Art Projects, Australia.
 2011-12 "The Crossing," SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.
 2012 "Bill Viola: Reflections", Villa Panza, Varese, Italy.
 2013 "Bill Viola: Three Women", Puertas de Castilla, Murcia, Spain.
 2017 "Rinascimento Elettronico", Strozzi Palace and other museums, Florence, Italy.

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