| Dates: | born 1-January-1951
| | Biography: | 1989
Bill Viola was born in New York, USA in
1951.
He studied at the College of Visual and
Performing Arts, Syracuse New York.
From 1973 to 1980 he was part of the
new music group, "Rainforest" with
composer David Tudor. Since then he
has worked in video, producing both
single screen works and video
installations. He has been artist in
residence at WNET 13 Television
laboratory in New York, the San Diego
Zoo in California and at the Atsugi
Laboratories of the Sony Corporation in
Japan. In 1980/81 Bill Viola lived in
Japan, studying traditional culture and
video technology. Bill Viola has worked
as a teacher of Advanced Video.
Selected Video Tapes:
The Reflecting Pool, Moonblood, Silent
Life, Ancient of Days, Vegetable
Memory (1977-80),
Chott El Djetid (A Portrait in Light and
Heat) 1979,
Hatsu Yume 1981,
Reasons for Knocking At An Empty
House 1983,
Anthem 1983,1 Do Not Know What It Is I
Am Like 1986.
1997
Bill Viola's extensive output includes
over 20 solo exhibitions of single screen
and video installation, presented in both
gallery and site specific contexts.
Works include;
Buried Secrets, 1995,
46th Venice Biennale, Italy;
Bill Viola, Stations, 1995/96,
Netherlands, Germany;
The Messenger, 1996 Durham
Cathedral;
Bill Viola: New Work, 1996, Georgia
| | | Source: | "Video Positive 89", festival catalogue; "Video Positive 97", festival catalogue | | | Date of source: | 1997 |
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| | Gender: | male | | Type: | person |
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