Background
Viola, Bill was born on January 25, 1951 in New York City. Son of William John and Wynne Viola.
(Widely recognized as the leading video artist of our time...)
Widely recognized as the leading video artist of our time, Bill Viola employs sophisticated state-of-the-art technologies to create installations that envelop the viewer in image and sound. In his newest and most evocative work--exhibited first at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin and in this accompanying catalogue--an ordered sequence of allegorical fresco-like images immerse the viewer in a total aesthetic, sensory and philosophical experience. Includes an interview with the artist.
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( Since 1980, depth psychologist Bill Plotkin has been gu...)
Since 1980, depth psychologist Bill Plotkin has been guiding women and men into the wildernessthe redrock canyons and snow-crested mountains of the American Westbut also into the wilds of the soul. He calls this work soulcraft. There’s a great longing in all people to uncover the secrets and mysteries of our individual lives, to find the unique gift we were born to bring to our communities, and to experience our full membership in the more-than-human world. This journey to soul is a descent into layers of the self much deeper than personality, a journey meant for each one of us, not just for the heroes and heroines of mythology. A modern handbook for the journey, Soulcraft is not an imitation of indigenous ways, but a contemporary nature-based approach born from wilderness experience, the traditions of Western culture, and the cross-cultural heritage of all humanity. Filled with stories, poems, and guidelines, Soulcraft introduces over 40 practices that facilitate the descent to soul, including dreamwork, wilderness vision fasts, talking across the species boundaries, council, self-designed ceremony, nature-based shadow work, and the arts of romance, being lost, and storytelling.
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Viola, Bill was born on January 25, 1951 in New York City. Son of William John and Wynne Viola.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Syracuse University, 1973. Doctor of Fine Arts, Syracuse University, 1995. Doctor of Fine Arts, School Art Institute Chicago, 1997.
Doctor of Fine Arts, California College Arts & Crafts, Oakland, 1998. Doctor of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College Art, 1999. Doctor of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, 2000.
Doctor of Fine Arts, University Sunderland, England, 2000.
Technical director Art/Tapes/22 Video Studio, Florence, Italy, 1974-1976. Artist-in-residence Station W National Educational Television, New York City, 1976-1983, WXXI-television, Rochester, New York, 1979, Sony Corporation, Atsugi Laboratories, Japan, 1980-1981, San Diego Zoo, 1984. Instructor California Institute of Arts, Valencia, 1983.
Represented by James Cohan Gallery, New York City.
( Since 1980, depth psychologist Bill Plotkin has been gu...)
(Widely recognized as the leading video artist of our time...)
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Solo exhibitions include The Kitchen Center, New York, 1974, Everson Museum Art, Syracuse, New York, 1975, Museum Modern Art, New York City, 1979, 87, Whitney Museum Art, New York City, 1982, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1983, Museum Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1985, Fukui Prefectural Museum Art, Fukui City, Japan, 1989, Staditsche Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1992, Moderna Musee, Stockholm, 1993, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1993, Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1993, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1993, Tel Aviv Museum Art, 1994, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, 1993, Centro Cultural/Banco de Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, 1994, 46th Venice Biennale, 1995, Festival d'Automne Paris, 1996, Bill Viola: A 25 Year Survey Exhibition, Whitney Museum American Art, New York, travels to Whitney Museum American Art, 1997, Los Angeles County Museum American Art, 1998, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1998, Museum Pur Moderne Kunst and Shirnkunstalle Dominkankloister, Germany, 1999, San Francisco Museum Modern Art, 1999, Art Institute Chicago, 1999-2000, 2KM, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2000, James Cohan Gallery, New York, 2000, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, 2001, Bill Viola: Going Forth By Day, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, 2002. Group exhibitions include De Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, California, 1972, Whitney Museum American Art, 1975-1987, 89, 93, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1984, Carnegie Museum Art, Pittsburgh, 1988, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, 1989, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1990, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1990, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, 1991, Museum Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, 1991, Royal Academy, London, 1993, Denver Art Museum, Columbus (Ohio) Art Museum, 1994, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, 1995, Museum Modern Art, New York City, 1995, Tate Gallery, London, 1995, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1996, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, 1997, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1999, La Beauté, Found Cartier, 2000, Tate Modern, London, 2000, National Gallery, London, 2000, James Cohan Gallery, New York, 2001. Special screening film: Dèserts, Vienna, Austria, 1994, WhiteCahpel Art Gallery, London, 2001, 49th Venice Biennale, 2001, Perth Festival, Australia, 2001, Commune di Ferrara, Italy, 2001, Musse d'Art Contemporian de Montreal, Canada, 2001.Commissions include The Stopping mind, Museum Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, 1991, Nantes Triptych, Dèlegation aux Arts Plastiques, Nantes, France, 1992, Slowly Turning Narrative, Institute Comtemporary Art, Philadelphia, Virginia Museum Fine Art, Richmond, 1992, Tiny Deaths, Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France, 1993, Dèserts, Konzerthause, Vienna, 1994, 3e Biennale d'Art contemporaire de Lyon, Musèe d'art contemporain, Lyon, France, 1995, Helaba Main Tower, Frankfurt, Germany, 2000, Gotesborgs Musiken, Sweden, 2001, Deserts, Konzerthaus, Vienna, 2001, Deserts, Carnigie Hall, New York, 2001, Deserts, Royal Festival Hall, London, 2001, Deserts, IRCAM, Centre Pomidou Main Hall, Paris, 2001, others. Composer: (album) David Tudor-Rainforest IV, 1981. (video) Chott el-Djerid, Anthem, 1983, Hatsu-Yume, 1981, The Reflecting Pool, 1977-1979, The Space Between the Teeth, 1976, Bill Viola: Selected Works, 1986, I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like, 1986, The Passing, 1991, The City of Man, 1989, Nantes Triptych, 1992, Slowly Turning Narritive, 1992, Tiny Deaths, 1993, The Greetings, 1995, The Crossing, 1996, The Quintet of Remembrance, 2000, The Quintet of the Unseen, 2000, The Quintet of the Astonished, The Quintet of the Silent, 2000, Surrender, 2001, Catherine's Room, 2001, Five Angles for the Millenium, 2001, Going Forth By Day, 2002.
He employs the insights of Zen Buddhism, Islamic mysticism, and European philosophy as much as the latest findings in neuroscience and the cognitive sciences, and draws new impulses for his work from his travels to places such as Bali or Tunisia, and longer stays in Italy and Japan.
Married Kira Perov; children: Blake, Andrei.