Bill Viola

Known for DirectingBorn 1951-01-25 (age 75)Queens, New York, USA

A pioneer in the medium of video art, Bill Viola's work explores the spiritual and perceptual side of human experience. Since 1970 he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances and pieces for television. Works include Hatsu Yume (First Dream), The Passing, and installations Room for St. John of the Cross, The Messenger and The Quintet of the Astonished, recently shown at the National Gallery, London in "Encounters, New Art from Old". A 25-year survey exhibition of his work organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art recently traveled to 6 institutions in the USA and Europe. MacArthur Fellow.Read more

Movies & web series

The Voyage

A Phrase from Chris

A Non-Dairy Creamer

Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)

Fire Woman

Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart

The Path

Ancient of Days

Guadalcanal Requiem

The Space Between the Teeth

Playing Soul Music to My Freckles So They Won't Get Lonely

Return

What Is Cinema?

I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

Hatsu Yume (First Dream)

Anthem

Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)

Ocean Without a Shore

Déserts

Angel's Gate

Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers

Migration (for Jack Nelson)

Information

The Passing

Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's

The Reflecting Pool

Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House

Emergence

Sweet Light

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Mary

Inverted Birth

Martyrs

Martyrs: Fire

Martyrs: Earth

Martyrs: Water

Martyrs: Air

Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity

The Dreamers

The Encounter

Walking on the Edge

Traveling on Foot

Three Women

The Innocents

Poem B (The Guest House)

Ablutions

Basin of Tears

The Raft