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Bill Viola

American, 1951-2024

Biography

Bill Viola

  • (1951-2024)

    Born in 1951, New York, US
     

Education

  • 1995    Honorary Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, Syracuse University, Syracuse, US
    1973    BFA, Experimental Studios, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, Syracuse, US

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2024
    ARTIST ROOMS Bill Viola, Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Devon, UK

    2023
    Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida, US
    Sculptor of Time, La Boverie, Liège, Belgium
    Bill Viola, James Cohan, New York, US
    Bill Viola, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

    2022
    Bill Viola. Ritorno alla Vita, Carminiello a Toledo Church, Naples, Italy
    Bill Viola, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
    Bill Viola: Tiempo Suspendido, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
    Bill Viola: Icons of Light, Palazzo Bonaparte, Rome, Italy
    Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium, The Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project, Shanghai, China

    2021
    Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China
    Bill Viola: Inner Journey, Amos Rex, Helsinki, Finland
    Purification: From Bill Viola to the Palatine Chapel, Palazzo Reale (Palazzo dei Normanni), Palermo, Italy 
    Bill Viola: Slowly Turning Narrative, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
    Bill Viola. The Journey of the Soul, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
    Bill Viola: Into the Light, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway

    2020
    Bill Viola: ENCOUNTER, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
    Bill Viola: Purification, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium  
    Bill Viola: The Raft, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, US
    Bill Viola. Mirrors of the Unseen, Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, Spain
    Bill Viola: The Raft, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, US

    2019
    Bill Viola / Michelangelo: Life, Death, Rebirth, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like: The Art of Bill Viola, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, US
    Bill Viola: Ocean Without A Shore, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, US
    Intimate Works, Blain|Southern, London, UK
    Bill Viola: The Veiling, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, US
    Body of Time, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Franklin Rawson, San Juan, Argentina
    Infinite Journey, St. Moritz Church, Augsburg, Germany
    Bill Viola: Impermanence, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
    Bill Viola. Mirrors of the Unseen, Casa Milà(La Pedrera), Barcelona, Spain
    NOWNESS Experiments: The Mesh, K11 Art Mall, Shanghai, China
    The Raft, organized by the American Federation of the Arts, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, US; New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, US

    2018
    BILL VIOLA, La Nave Salinas, Ibiza, Spain
    ARTIST ROOMS: Bill Viola, The Point, Doncaster, UK
    Bill Viola: Three Women, St Cuthbert’s Edinburgh, UK
    Bill Viola: Visions of Time, SESC (Social Service of Commerce), Sao Paulo, Brazil
    Bill Viola: Moving Stillness, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
    PASSIO 2018, Saint Martin’s Church, Kortrijk, Belgium
    Bill Viola: Vía Mística, Iglesia de San Miguel, Iglesia de San Andres, Iglesia de Las Angelicas, Museo de Arte Abstracto Español en Cuenca; Cuenca, Spain
    Bill Viola: The Raft, The Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, US
    BILL VIOLA: Life After Death, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway

    2017
    Naissance á rebours, DHC/ART, Montreal, Canada
    Bill Viola alla Cripta di San Sepolcro, The Crypt of San Sepolcro, Milan, Italy
    Bill Viola: Selected Work 1977-2014, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
    Bill Viola. Electronic Renaissance, Palazzo Strozzi, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, The Museum in the Small Cloister and Cloister and Refectory, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy
    Bill Viola – Installations, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
    Bill Viola: A Retrospective, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
    Inverted Birth, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Bill Viola: Visitation Reformation, Uppsala Cathedral, Uppsala Art Museum and Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala, Sweden

    2016
    Bill Viola: The Moving Portrait, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, US
    Bill Viola: Walking on the Edge, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada
    Mary, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, UK

    2015
    Inverted Birth, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
    Bill Viola: Selected Works (organized by Adelaide Festival of Arts), Art Gallery of South Australia, St. Peter’s Cathedral and Queen’s Theatre, Adelaide, Australia
    Masterpiece 2015: Bill Viola, De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Bill Viola, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Bill Viola, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK
    Artist Rooms: Bill Viola - The Wilson, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
    The Martyrs, St Peter’s Chapel at Auckland Castle, County Durham, United Kingdom
    Masterpiece Series: Bill Viola, De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Bill Viola: Moving Stillness (Mt. Rainier) 1979, Blain|Southern, London, UK
    Bill Viola: The Talking Drum, The Vinyl Factory Space at Brewer Street Car Park in Soho, London, UK

    2014
    The Dreamers, Academy Art Museum, Easton, US
    Bill Viola: Capturing Spectacle and Passion, The Newfields, Indianapolis, US
    Tristan und Isolde, Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain
    Bill Viola: In Dialogue, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain
    Bill Viola, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France
    Renaissance, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
    Revival of Tristan at La Bastille, Opera Bastille, Paris, France
    Bill Viola: Passions, Cathedral of Berne & Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
    Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water),(Permanent), St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, UK
    Bill Viola: Transformation, Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, China
    Kaldor Family Connection: Artist Room #2 – Francis Alys and Bill Viola, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Gymea, Australia
    Tiny Deaths, Tate Modern, London, UK
    The Passing, An Homage to Bill Viola, EMST/National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

    2013
    Bill Viola: Ascension, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, US
    Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures, Blain|Southern, London, UK
    Bill Viola: The Return, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
    Point of Departure, Parque de La Memoria, Buenos Aries, Argentina
    Bill Viola: The Raft, Palazzo Te, Mantova, Italy
    Bill Viola. Self Portrait – Submerged, Galleria Degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

    2012
    Bill Viola: The Raft, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, US
    Bill Viola: Unspoken, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
    Bill Viola: Submerged-Spaces, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
    Bill Viola: Reflections, Villa di Panza, Varese, Italy
    Bill Viola: Water, Nordic Watercolor Museum, Skarhamn, Sweden
    Bill Viola: Liber Insularum, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, North Miami, US

    2011
    Bill Viola: Quintet of the Unseen, Blain|Southern, London, UK
    Bill Viola: Liber Insularum, Sala de Arte Contemporaneo del Gobierno de Canarias, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (in 2012, expanded version travels to Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, US)
    Bill Viola: Transformations, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
    Amore e Morte, Gucci Museum, Florence, Italy
    Ocean Without a Shore, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, US

    2010
    Bill Viola per Capodimonte, The Museo di Capodimonte of Naples, Naples, Italy
    Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Astonished, Urban Video Project, Syracuse University, Syracuse, US
    Bill Viola: Visitation, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, US
    Emergence: Bill Viola at the Accademia Gallery, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy
    Bill Viola: Figurative Works, Museo Picasso Málaga, Malaga, Spain
    Bill Viola: Fire Woman and Tristan’s Ascension, Presented by Kaldor Public Art Projects in association with the Melbourne International Arts Festival; St. Carthage's Church, Melbourne, Australia
    Bill Viola: The Raft, Presented by ACMI for the Melbourne International Arts Festival in association with Kaldor Public Art Projects, Melbourne, Australia

    2009
    Bill Viola: Bodies of Light, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
    Bill Viola: The Intimate Work, De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
    Bill Viola: Being Time, The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, UK
    Bill Viola: Installations and Screenings(Screenings, part of Forum Expanded, 59th Berlinale), Haunch of Venison, Berlin, Germany

    2008
    Bill Viola: Visioni Interiori, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
    Bill Viola: Ocean Without a Shore, installation, National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
    Bill Viola: Transfigurations, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Bill Viola: Ocean Without a Shore, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
    Bill Viola: The Tristan Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales and St. Saviour’s Church, Sydney, Australia

    2007
    Bill Viola: Ocean Without a Shore, installation in Chiesa di San Gallo, Collateral Event, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
    Bill Viola, The Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
    Bill Viola: Works from the Tristan Project, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
    Bill Viola: Las Horas Invisibles, Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada, Palacio de Carlos V, La Alhambra, Spain

    2006
    Bill Viola: Hatsu-Yume (First Dream), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
    Bill Viola–Video, 2006 Recipient of the NORD/LB Art Prize, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
    LOVE/DEATH The Tristan Project, Haunch of Venison (two venues), London, UK

    2005
    Bill Viola, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
    Tristan und Isolde, premiere of fully staged Peter Sellars’ production, with four hour video, l’Opéra National de Paris, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, Paris, France
    Bill Viola Visions, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

    2004
    The Tristan Project (four hour video for Peter Sellars’ new production Tristan und Isolde (concert version)), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, Los Angeles, US; New York premiere, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (2007), New York, US; Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Esa Pekka Salonen, Los Angeles, US; Gergiev Festival, De Doelen Concert Hall, conductor Valery Gergiev, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; White Nights Festival (2008), Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, conductor Valery Gergiev, St Petersburg, Russia
    Bill Viola: Temporality and Transcendence, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

    2003
    Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium, Ruhrtriennale, Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany
    Bill Viola, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Bill Viola: The Passions, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, US; Travels to The National Gallery, London, UK; Fundación la Caixa, Madrid (2005), Spain; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

    2002
    Bill Viola: Going Forth By Day, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany. Travels to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US.

    2001
    Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK

    2000
    Bill Viola: The Greeting, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Église Saint-Eustache, Paris, France
    Bill Viola: New Work, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
    The World of Appearances, Helaba Main Tower, Frankfurt (permanent installation), Germany 
    Stations: Bill Viola, Museum für Neue Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

    1997
    Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US; Travels to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US; Whitney Museum of American Art (1998), US; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Museum für Moderne Kunst (1999), Frankfurt, Germany; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US; Art Institute of Chicago (1999-2000), Chicago, US
    Bill Viola: Fire, Water, Breath, Guggenheim Museum (SoHo), New York, US

    1996
    Bill Viola: Trilogy: Fire, Water, Breath, Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Paris, France
    Bill Viola: The Messenger, Durham Cathedral, Visual Arts UK 1996, Durham, UK; travels to South London Gallery; Video Positiva-Moviola, Liverpool; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Oriel Mostyn, Gwynedd, Wales; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin(1997), Ireland
    Bill Viola: New Work, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, US
    Bill Viola: Stations, Württemberger Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany

    1995
    Buried Secrets, United States Pavilion, 46th Venice Biennale, Italy, organized by Arizona State University Art Museum. Travels to Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe  and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, US(1996)

    1994
    Bill Viola: Território do Invisível/Site of the Unseen, Centro Cultural/Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Déserts (A film created for the music composition Désertsby Edgard Varèse), a collaboration with the Ensemble Modern, conductor Peter Eötvös, Wien Modern, Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria. Other performances: Konzerthaus, Karlsruhe(1995); Muffathalle, Munich; Palazzetto dello Sport, Venice; Hallein/Perner-Insel, Salzburg; Alte Oper, Frankfurt; Konzerthaus, Berlin; Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; Royal Festival Hall, London(1996); Globe Arena, Stockholm; Auditorio RAI, Turin; Théatre des Champs-Élysées, Paris (performances with other orchestras continue to the present)
    Bill Viola: Stations, American Center Inaugural Opening, Paris, France
    Bill Viola, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria

    1993
    Bill Viola, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada

    1992
    Bill Viola: Unseen Images, Stadtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Travels to: Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1993), Sweden; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, France; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK; Tel Aviv Museum of Art (1994), Israel
    Bill Viola: Two Installations, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK
    Bill Viola, Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, US
    Bill Viola: Nantes Triptych,  Chappelle de l'Oratoire, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France

    1990
    Bill Viola: The Sleep of Reason, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France

    1989
    Bill Viola, part of The 3rd Fukui International Video Biennale, Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui City, Japan
    Bill Viola, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
    Bill Viola, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

    1988
    Bill Viola: Survey of a Decade, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, US

    1987
    Bill Viola: Installations and Videotapes, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

    1985
    Bill Viola, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Summer 1985, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US

    1983
    Bill Viola, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

    1982
    Bill Viola: Videotapes, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

    1979
    Projects: Bill Viola, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

    1977
    Bill Viola: Video Installation and Tapes, The Kitchen, New York, US

    1975
    Il Vapore, one-day exhibition, part of “Per Conoscenza,” Zona, Florence, Italy
    Rain—Three Interlocking Systems, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, US
    Origins of Thought, Véhicule Art, Montreal, Canada

    1974
    Bill Viola: Video and Sound Installations, The Kitchen Centre, New York, US
    Bill Viola Videotapes, de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, US
    Bank image Bank, Lincoln First Bank, Rochester, US

    1973
    New Video Work, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2024
    Electric Op, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York, US
    Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier, 1979, Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina, US
    2024 Inaugural Exhibition, The Campus, Claverack, US
    Mondes Sensibles: Une histoire sensorielle de l’œuvre d’art totale, International Museum of Perfumery, Grasse, France
    Roma Amor, The Fall of Empires, De Renava - Biennale of Bonifacio, Bonifacio, France
    Homo Ludens, CaixaForum, Tarragona, Spain
    Suppose You Are Not, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey

    2023
    Emocions. Imatges i gestos del passat i del present, Museu Frederic Marès, Barcelona, Spain
    Pensiero video. Disegno e arti elettroniche, Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca, Italy
    Water, Foundation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
    Au bout de mes rêves, Le Tripostal, Lille, France
    Collection Presentation, De Pont Museum, North Brabant, Netherlands
    À bruit secret Hearing in Art, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
    Two Plus Two Makes Four, The Auxiliary, Middlesbrough, UK
    Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, US

    2022
    Double Act, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
    Boijmans x KMSKA, The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
    Bill Viola alla Chiesa del Carminiello a Toledo, Chiesa del Carminiello a Toledo, Naples, Italy
    Art and spirituality. Imagine the extraordinary, Pabellón Villanueva, Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid, Spain
    Grief and Pleasure, Odunpazari Modern Museum, Eskişehir, Turkey
    Playmode, Collaboration between MAAT, Portugal and N+1 Produção Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Play – videogame, art and more, Reggia di Venaria, Venaria Reale, Italy 
    Homo ludens, CaixaForum, Sevilla, Spain 
    Mourning: In the Wake of Loss, Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, South Korea
    Magdalene. The mystery and the image, San Domenico Museums, Forli, Italy 
    The Clowes Pavilion Reimagined, Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indiana, US
    Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, US 
    A Través, James Cohan, New York, US
    Immersive, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, US

    2021
    Writing the History of the Future. Signature Works of the Singular ZKM Media Art Collection, Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea
    Reverse Television–Portraits of Viewers, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, US
    Reset!, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany
    GAME OVER,  Patchlab Digital Art Festival, Kraków, Poland 
    À la mort, à la vie, Vanités d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France
    CORPUS Le corps et le sacré, Musée d'art et d'histoire Fribourg, Swiss
    Open World, Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center, Oklahoma City, US 
    Beyond, Xihai Art Museum, Qingdao, China
    VENETIA 1600 Births and rebirths, Palazzo Ducale, Doge’s Apartments, Venice, Italy 
    Homo ludens. Video games to understand the present, CaixaForum, Madrid, Spain 
    2e Biënnale Kunst in de Heilige Driehoek, St. Paul’s Abbey and St. Catherine’s Monastery, Oosterhout, Netherlands
    Teasing chaos, David Tudor, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria 
    Danser sur un volcan, Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
    Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art, Toledo Museum Of Art, Toledo, US
    All That Was Solid Melts, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand 
    Points of Resistance, Zionskirche, Berlin, Germany (Organized by MOMENTUM)
    Fragments of Sphere, Project Space On The Inside, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Saint Somebody: Technologies of the Divine, Art Vault Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
    Dreams of Freedom - Romanticism in Russia and in Germany, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia 
    On the roads to paradise, Les Franciscaines Deauville, France

    2020
    Where the Tide Has Been (Han Nefkens Foundation + SeMA Media Collection), SeMA Buk- Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Archie Plus, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    Passion Leidenschaft, LWL - Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany
    Poéticas de la emoción, CaixaForum Girona, Spain
    Fragile Figures: Beings and Time, 21c Museum Hotel, Nashville, US
    Open World: Video Games & Contemporary Art, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, US
    The Light Show, Denver Art Museum, Denver, US
    Escape Routes, Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand
    WE ARE THE REVOLUTION, XNL Piacenza Contemporanea, Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ricci Oddi, Piacenza, Italy
    Permanent Collection, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMΣT), Athens, Greece
    Ulysses. Art and Legend, Musei San Domenico, Forì, Italy
    Espejos de lo invisible, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain
    Almost Human: Digital Art from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, US
    Miracles all around us, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Bodyscapes, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
    Shadow catchers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    2019
    The Mesh, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    James Cohan: Twenty Years, James Cohan, New York, US
    Fragile Figures: Beings and Time, 21c Museum Hotel, Nashville, US
    Open World: Video Games & Contemporary Art, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, US
    Open World, Akron Art Museum, Akron, US
    Icons, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
    The Whole Celebration, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US
    Playmode, MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
    Kaldor Public Art Projects, half a century in the public eye, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    Poetics of Emotion, CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain  [travelling to CaixaForum, Zaragoza, Spain]
    The Light Show, Denver Art Museum, Denver, US
    Mirrors - The reflected self, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland
    PEINTURAMA, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris, France
    Bel Canto, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
    Passagen, Markuskirche, Hannover, Germany
    Microcosmo, Museum Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Valmontone, Italy
    Bill Viola / Michelangelo – Life Death Rebirth, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

    2018
    MAXXI COLLECTION, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti de XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
    Dream. L’arte incontra i sogni, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy
    Tristan and Isolde, Opera national de Paris, France
    Turbulencias, Fundació ”la Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain
    Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
    Why Art?, Museum Ulm, Ulm, Germany
    And I will take you to Paradise, Art Museum KUBE, Ålesund, Norway
    Mind Temple, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
    The Sensation of the Sea, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, The Mesdag Collection, The Hague, The Netherlands
    You Are Here, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, US
    Macro Asilo, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma(MACRO), Rome, Italy

    2017
    The Artist’s Voice, The Parkview Museum, Singapore
    Digital Games, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
    The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, US
    The Raft. Art is (not) Lonely, Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium
    Bill Viola: Martyrs—Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Memorial Art Gallery – University of Rochester, New York, US
    Edgard Pisani: A Force for the Future, National Assembly, Building Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Salle Lamartine, rue de I’Université, Paris, France
    Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, US
    The EMST Collection at documenta 14, Kassel, Germany
    Tristan's Ascension, Galleria Ivan Bruschi, Arezzo, Italy
    In search of Global Poetry: Videos from the Han Nefkens Collection, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
    ZKM_Gameplay, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany 
    MAN IN THE MIRROR, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
    Nature: Man's Refuge and Resource, Centro Cultural Kirchner CCK, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Close Up: Piermatteo D’Amelia's Annunciation, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, US

    2017
    7 X SPACE X TIME, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, ‎Denmark

    2016
    Love, Devotion, and Surrender, 22 London, Asheville, US
    Organic Body - Fragile Body, Venice International Performance Art Week 2016, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
    Passion: Albrecht Bouts and the Face of Christ, Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art Luxembourg, France
    Nuit Blanche, ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche, Design Exchange, Toronto, Canada
    Home Land Security, Fort Winfield Scott, San Francisco, US
    The Other in the Self, Breitwand Kino, Fünf Seen Film Festival Video Art Show, Starnberg, Germany
    New Gameplay, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
    Moving Tales: Video Works from the La Gaia Collection, Complesso Monumentale di San Francesco, Cuneo, Italy
    Mozart & Pärt: The Angels, LA Phil, Los Angeles, US
    Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art, Ringling Museum, Florida, US
    Trans-Pacific Transmissions: Video Art Across the Pacific, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Höhenrausch 2016, Different Angels, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
    The House of Impressions, Prince Golitsyn Manor, Moscow Media Art Lab/Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
    ZKM_Gameplay, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
    GAME VIDEO/ART, IULM University, Milan, Italy (part of XXI Triennale International Exhibition, 21st Century, Design after Design)
    Botticelli Reimagined, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
    Terry Fox – Bill Viola, Musée du Beaux-Arts at Mons, Belgium
    Interiors; Danish photographer Trine Søndergaard and the German photographer Nicole Ahland, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr, Germany
    Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China

    2015
    Future Present, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland
    Phlogiston, Museum of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia
    Tobe part of Universe, 7th International Contemporary Art Biennale of Melle, Melle, France
    The Line, The House Mill, London, UK
    Heartbreak Hotel, Vanhaerents Art Collection at the Zuecca Project Space, Venice, Italy
    Proportio, Axel & May Vervoodt Foundation, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
    Silent Life (1979), Laure Roynette Gallery, Paris, France
    Swimming Pool, Espace Croix-Baragnon, Toulouse, France
    Legacy, Nobel Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
    Masterpiece, De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  
    Mixed Emotions/Gemengde Gevoelens, AGB MAC, Cultuurcentrum, Mechelen, Belgium
    Belle Haleine - The Scent of Art, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
    Leonardo da Vinci's Leicester Codex and the Power of Observation, Steele Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, US
    White, MOCA, Jacksonville, US

    2014
    The Dreamers, Academy Art Museum, Easton, US
    REFRACTION. THE IMAGE OF SENSE, Blain|Southern, London, UK
    Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
    Affekte, Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany
    Kaldor Family Collection: Artist Room #2, Francis Alÿs and Bill Viola, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Gymea, Australia
    1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Cartagena, Colombia
    The Sea- An hommage to Jan Hoet, Cinema Capitole, VZW De Zee Ostend, Belgium
    The Sea, Museum Brandts, Odense, Denmark
    Pure Water. The Most Valuable Resource in the World, LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
    Fragility, Transparency, Liquidity, Transformability, Vitraria Glass + A Museum, Venice, Italy
    Walk and Equilibrium, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum, Florence, Italy
    Garden, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
    Deloitte Ignite 2014 -Myth – The Feather and the Flame, Royal Opera House, London, UK
    The Space Where I Am, Blain|Southern, London, UK
    Renaissance: Carpaccio and Bill Viola, Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia, Venice, Italy

    2013
    In God We Trust: The Religious Mosaic in America, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
    Bill Viola: The Return, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
    The Games of Art, Pinnacles Gallery, Riverway Arts Centre, Thuringowa, Australia
    To see the sacred, Musée du Louvre-Lens, Lens, France
    Video Vintage, Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    The Mystery of Tears, Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC), Belfast, UK
    A Triple Tour, Conciergerie, Palais de la Cité, Paris, France
    Blackbox, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Video Vintage, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
    Permanent Collection on view, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, UK
    Imminent Sounds- Falls and Crossings, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
    Bill Viola: Tristan's Ascension, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway
    Flesh & Blood, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
    Seismic Shifts, National Academy Museum, New York, US
    Through a Glass Darkly: Faces Past and Present, Museum Ernst, Budapest, Hungary

    2012
    Fortuny and Wagner, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
    Hey Dude, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
    About Caravaggio, Museo Tuscolano, Frascati, Italy
    The Grotesque Factor, Museo Picasso Malaga, Malaga, Spain
    Bill Viola: Tristan’s Ascension, Stavanger Art Museum, Norway
    NOVA Cultura Contemporanea, Auditorium Museum for Image and Sound, Sao Paulo, Brazil
    Sacred Geometry and Secular Science, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, US
    Voice of Images, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
    The Best of Times, The Worst of Times. Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Armoury, Kiev, Ukraine
    Beyond Memory, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
    Arte Torna Arte, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy
    Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Sainsbury Centre for the Arts, Norwich, UK
    Struggle(s), Maison Particuliére, Brussels, Belgium
    J.S. Bach's St. Matthew's Passion, Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona, Spain
    Silence, Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
    Wish You Were Here, The Buffalo Avant-Garde in the 1970's, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, US
    Passing Time, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, De Pauw University, Greencastle, US
    Going Around the Corner: Works from the Berlingieri Collection, MACRO, Rome, Italy
    Modern Japanese Art from the Museum Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
    KINOKINO, Game On 2.0, Sandnes, Norway
    >Spotlights< video art Look Now: Modern and Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, US
    Vidéo Vintage, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
    Passing Time, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, US
    Modern Japanese Art from the Museum Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
    Faces, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic

    2011
    Ocean Without a Shore Opening, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, US
    Images of the Mind, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden DE; Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic 
    The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen’s Soho Years 1971-86, The Kitchen, New York, US
    The Quintet of the Astonished, Everson Museum, Syracuse, US
    God Only Knows Who the Audience Is, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US
    Mediascape in the Wake of Nam June Paik, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
    Real Virtuality, The Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, New York, US
    Passion in Venice, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, US
    Open Ears 2011, CAFKA, Open Ears Festival, Kitchener, US
    Influential Element: Exploring the Impact of Water, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, US
    Film Fridays Series (Screening), The Varsity Center for the Arts, Southern Illinois, US
    The Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
    Exchange Evolution, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, US
    Videosphere: A New Generation, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, US
    Time and Place, Kunsthalle Detroit, Michigan, US
    Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., US
    Images of the Mind, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
    The Art of Deceleration, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
    Space Invaders, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic 
    Celebrazione Vasariane, Firenze Arti Visive, Florence, Italy
    Ensemble 20/21, Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid, Spain
    MMK 1991-2011: 20 Years of the Contemporary, MMK, Frankfurt, Germany
    Oslo Chamber Music Festival 2011- Gamle Logen, Oslo, Norway
    Pino Pascali: Return to Venice/Apulia Contemporary Art, Palazzo Bianchi Michiel, Venice, Italy
    The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, US
    Portraits de la Pensée, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France
    Paradise Lost, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey
    Blink! Light Sound and the Moving Image, Denver Art Museum, Denver, US
    The Quintet of the Unseen, Blain|Southern, London, UK
    art/tapes/22 a Santa Teresa (1972-76), Forno San Ferdinando, Follonica, Italy
    Tout ouïe, Sans Canal Fixe, Tours, France
    2011 Images and Views of Alternative Cinema, Theatro Ena, Nicosia, Cyprus
    New contemporary galleries featuring the John Kaldor Family Collection, Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    The Promised Land, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
    Don't Look Now, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
    Figuratively Speaking: A Survey of the Human Form, Bellagio Gallery, Las Vegas, US
    Happy Tech: machines with a human face, Palazzo Re Enzo & La Triennale/Bovisa, Milan, Italy
    La Candela Festival 2011, Valls, Spain
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France
    San Sebastian, una iconografia comtemporánea, Kubo-Kutxa, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
    When Painting Moves...Something Must Be Rotten, Stenerson Museum, Oslo, Norway
    Knock on wood: Tales from the forest, Virserums Konsthall, Sweden
    Space, Foundazione MAXXI, Rome, Italy
    Lust and Vice: The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
    When Eve Meets Adam, Museum of Fine Arts, Strasbourg, France
    A Million and One Days, Lithuanian National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
    The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Nobel Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
    Tong, Haeinsa Temple, Chiin-ri, Korea
    Esplanade – The Recital Studio, Singapore
    Video, An Art, A History 1965 - 2010: A Selection from the Centre Pompidou and Singapore Art Museum Collections, Singapore
    Déserts (1994), Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Japan
    Shan Shui, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing, China 
    Environmental Day, ikono.tv/MELD, Television Broadcast, Arabsat: Menasa Region, Etisalat, United Arab Emirates
    Selected works from the Centre Pompidou's New Media Collection, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel

    2010
    Mortality, Presented in association with the Melbourne International Arts Festival; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne, Australia
    Independence from Europe, Electronic Media Gallery, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, US
    Still / Moving, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
    Raw, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
    Bill Viola. Mirada a Picasso, Museo Picasso Malaga, Spain
    17th Sydney Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
    Space,Foundazione MAXXI, Rome, Italy
    The Artist's Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
    Remember That You Will Die, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, US
    Disquieted: Contemporary Voices from Out of the Shadows, Portland Art Museum, Portland, US

    2009
    Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
    After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions, Jerwood Gallery, Natural History Museum, London, UK
    Tears of Eros, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
    Unbounded: New Art for a New Century, Newark Museum, Newark, US
    The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia 1860-1989, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
    Installations/Screenings, Haunch of Venison, Berlin, Germany

    2008
    Dans la Nuit des Images, Grand Palais, Paris, France
    Conceptual Art from California, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
    Eros, Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York, US
    Traces de Sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
    California Video, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, US

    2007
    Il Settimo Splendore: La Modernità della Malinconia, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Verona, Italy
    Centre Pompidou Video Art 1965-2005, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia

    2006
    The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Loyola Musem of Art, Chicago, US, UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, US
    Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Los Angeles, 1955 – 1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
    Slow Tech, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
    Landscape/Inscape, St Paul St Gallery at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
    Los Angeles-Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
    Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

    2005
    25 years of Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
    Marking Time: moving images, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, US
    Bill Viola: The Greeting, The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, US
    Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, US
    Big Bang: Creation and Destruction in 20th Century Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
    Water in Myth and Nature, Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
    A Kind of Magic, Lucerne Museum of Art, Switzerland
    Out of Time, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Intramoenia Extra Art, Castel del Monte, Andria, Italy

    2004
    Tristan Project, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles, US
    Presence: Images of Christ for the Third Millennium, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, UK
    Animals: 17 Artists Explore the Otherness of Animals, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
    Between The Lines, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
    Self-Evidence: Identity in Contemporary Art, DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, UK
    Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US

    2003
    Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE; The Body Transformed, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
    Uneasy Space, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, US
    The Body Transformed, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
    The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, US
    Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium, Ruhr Triennale, Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany
    Passion for Art: 100 Treasures 100 Years, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, US
    Happiness: a survival guide for art and life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

    2002
    Verweite doch… Gerhard Richter, Roman Opalka…, Stadtische Galerie, Lenbachhaus, and Kunstbau Munchen, Munich, Germany
    The Nude in 20th Century Art, Grosse Kirche, Emden, Germany
    Real Life, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK
    The Power of Art, Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
    Synopsis II: Theologies at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
    Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, PS1, MoMA, Long Island, US
    Like Painting, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland

    2001
    Plateau of Humankind, Forty-Ninth Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
    Hieronymous Bosch,Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Artcité: When Montreal Turns into a Museum,” Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

    2000
    Encounters: New Art from Old, National Gallery, London, UK
    Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

    1999
    The American Century: Art & Culture 1900–2000, Part II, 1950–2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

    1997
    Changing Spaces, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, US; Exhibited at Miami Art Museum, Miami, US; Arts Festival of Atlanta, US; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, US; Vancouver Art Museum, Vancouver, Canada

    1996
    Along the Frontier: Ann Hamilton, Bruce Nauman, Francesc Torres, Bill Viola, (traveling) International Center of Photography, New York, US; exhibited at The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic ; National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL; Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Ukranian House Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
    Being and Time: The Emergence of Video Projection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, US; traveled to Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, US; Portland Art Museum, Portland, US; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, US; Site Santa Fe, US

    1995
    Video Spaces: Eight Installations, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Rites of Passage: Art for the End of the Century, Tate Gallery, London, UK
    3e Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

    1994
    Bill Viola: Stations (part of inaugural exhibition), American Center, Paris, France
    Visions of America: Landscape as Metaphor in the Late Twentieth Century, Denver Art Museum and Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, US

    1993
    American Art in the Twentieth Century: Painting and Sculpture, 1913–1993, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany; The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

    1992
    Documenta 9, Documenta-Halle, Kassel, Germany

    1991
    Eröffnungsausstellung/Opening Exhibition, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

    1990
    Passages de l’image, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; travelled to Centre cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, US; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US

    1989
    Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

    1988
    American Landscape Video: The Electronic Grove, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, US
    Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US

    1987
    Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, US

    1985
    1985 Biennial Exhibitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

    1984
    Het lumineuze beeld/The Luminous Image, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    1983
    Video as Attitude Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, US; and University Art Museum,
    University of New Mexico, US
    Noel Harding and Bill Viola: Two Video Installations, The Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto, Video Culture,
    Canada International Video Festival, Canada

    1981
    International Video Art Festival, Theme Pavillion, Portopia ’81, Kobe, Japan

    1977
    Documenta 6, Friedericianum, Kassel, Germany

    1975
    Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

    1974
    Kunst bleibt Kunst: Projekt ’74, Kunstverein, Cologne, and Kunsthalle Cologne, Germany

    1972
    St. Jude Invitational Exhibition, de Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, US

Selected Awards

  • 2013
    National Artist Award, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, Colorado, US
    Aurora Award, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, US

    2011
    Praemium Imperiale, Painting, the Japan Art Association, Tokyo, Japan

    2009
    Catalonia International Prize, Barcelona, Spain
    Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts, MIT, Cambridge, US


    2007
    AAR Religion and the Arts Award, US


    2006
    Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, French Government, France
    NORD/LB Art Prize, Bremen, Germany


    2003
    Cultural Leadership Award, American Federal of Arts, US


    1998
    Getty Research Institute Fellowship, Scholar-in-Residence, Los Angeles, US


    1993
    Medienkunstpreis, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, and Siemens Kulturprogramm, Germany
    Skowhegan Medal (Video Installation), US


    1989
    John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award, US


    1987
    Maya Deren Award, American Film Institute, US


    1984
    Polaroid Video Art Award for outstanding achievement, US


    1980
    Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission, Cultural Exchange Fellowship, Japan/US


    1970s-90s
    Various Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the California Arts Council, New England Arts Council, US

Selected Public and Private Collections

  • Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, US
    Berardo Collection, Sintra Museum of Art, Sintra, Portugal
    Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US
    Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
    Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
    Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, US
    Collection Bayersiche Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich, Germany
    Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, US
    De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
    Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, US
    Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, US
    Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
    Fundacio la Caixa Centro Cultural, Barcelona, Spain
    Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
    The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
    Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
    Main Tower Helaba, Frankfurt, Germany
    Maja Hoffman Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
    Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York US
    Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, US
    Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, US
    Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada
    Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
    Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Paris, France
    Museet for Samtidkinst, Oslo, Norway
    Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
    Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
    Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
    Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, US
    Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US
    Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
    The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
    North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, US
    Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, US
    Princeton University, New Jersey, US
    The Rivendell Collection of late 20th Century Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
    San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, US
    San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, US
    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preussischer Kultur-besitz, National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
    The Tate Modern, London, UK
    The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, US
    The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
    Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada
    Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

Works

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Selected Press

2016-10-00 Wallpaper
2016-09-00 THE ART NEWSPAPER
2015-08-05 Huffingtonpost
2015-04-00 BAZAAR
2015-04-00 LUXURY
2015-04-00 미술시대
2015-04-00 W
2015-04-00 월간미술
2015-04-00 HEREN
2015-04-00 Art In Culture
2015-04-00 Noblesse
2015-03-23 CA
2015-03-19 SBS 컬처클럽
2015-03-16 MBC 문화사색
2015-03-16 Korea Joongang Daily
2015-03-14 The Austrailian
2015-03-12 Rip It Up
2015-03-11 The Korea Herald
2015-03-00 HEREN
2015-02-27 Adelaide festival
2015-02-00 W Korea
2015-01-00 IMPRESSION of 36c
2014-12-00 The Art Newspaper China
2014-07-00 Art in Culture
2014-03-12 New York Times
Hail Mary   pdf Wallpaper
Viola reconnects with Florence’s Old Masters   pdf THE ART NEWSPAPER
Elemental artistry: Bill Viola unleashes a new show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park   pdf Wallpaper
Bill Viola: Video Magic   pdf Huffingtonpost
Bill Viola To Present Important New Exhibition At Yorkshire Sculpture Park   pdf artlyst
빛은 비로소 어둠으로부터 이해된다   pdf artnow
끝나지 않은 4월의 고통…미술로 마음을 치유하세요   pdf 헤럴드 경제
 “어디로 가고 있나요”…미술로 힐링   pdf Channel A
거장의 형이상학적 영상예술 Bill Viola 展   pdf 신동아
느림의 묘미   pdf BAZAAR
빌 비올라의 인생 성찰   pdf LUXURY
빌 비올라전   pdf 미술시대
영상으로 재현한 아름다운 시(時)   pdf The BC
시간의 저편   pdf W
Bill Viola   pdf 월간미술
이름만으로 (불)충분한: <빌 비올라>   pdf SPACE
선구자의 시간   pdf HEREN
빌 비올라 내 영혼의 통로   pdf ELLE
예술의 기원으로부터 해방된 미디어 아트; 시간의 역사를 넘어 "지연된 시간"으로   pdf 美術世界
슬로비디오로 만나는 정화의 시간   pdf 문화+서울
비디오의 사제   pdf Art In Culture
Alone Together   pdf Noblesse
비디오 아티스트 빌 비올라 개인전<Bill Viola>   pdf 행복이 가득한 집
빌 비올라 개인전   pdf CA
비디오 예술의 거장 <빌 비올라전>   pdf SBS 컬처클럽
[Life] 세계적 비디오 예술의 거장 빌 비올라 개인전 `빌 비올라 Bill Viola`   pdf 매일경제
비디오아트거장 빌비올라 작품전   pdf KTV국민방송
Video artist Bill Viola brings seven time-bending works to Seou   pdf Arirang News
[바빠도본다] 믿고보는 아티스트가 온다   pdf 중앙일보
비디오아트 거장, 빌 비올라   pdf MBC 문화사색
Seven of Viola’s videos shown at Kukje   pdf Korea Joongang Daily
시간을 되돌릴 수 있다면 당신이 돌아가고 싶은 순간은   pdf 중앙 SUNDAY
Bill Viola: Life, death, ego and video   pdf The Austrailian
빌 비올라, 스승 백남준 나라서 비디오아트 뽐내다   pdf 이데일리
Departure returns for 2015 season   pdf Rip It Up
Suffering, transformation and redemption   pdf The Korea Herald
수도사가 수행하듯...느림으로 삶을 들춰보다   pdf 세계일보
기나긴 고통 끝에 다가온 구원의 순간   pdf 한국일보
느린 호흡으로 들여다보는 ‘삶의 고통과 구원’… 백남준의 ‘조수’ 였던 빌 비올라 국내 세 번째 개인전   pdf 경향신문
나는 누구인가, 어디로 가는가… 백남준 제자이자 美 비디오아트 거장 빌 비올라 개인전   pdf 국민일보
세계적 비디오 아티스트 빌 비올라 작품세계 만나볼까   pdf 아시아투데이
'시간'을 재료로 풀어낸 인간의 삶과 죽음   pdf 문화일보
"느린 시간 속에서 삶을 들여다 보다"   pdf YTN
'영상 시인' 빌 비올라 "삶은 고통…그게 바로 예술"   pdf 한국경제
빌 비올라 “예술은 영혼의 통로를 찾는 일”   pdf 매일경제
보이나요, 시공간 너머 그 무엇이…   pdf 서울신문
“삶이 고통스러운가?...견뎌내는 것이 인간이다”   pdf 동아일보
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