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Bill Viola Biography
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1951 |
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Born in New York, USA
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1984 |
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Polaroid Video Art Award for outstanding achievement, USA
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1987 |
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Maya Deren Award, American Film Institute, USA
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1993 |
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Skowhegan Medal (Video Installation), USA
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2003 |
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Cultural Leadership Award, American Federal of Arts, USA
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2006 |
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NORD/LB Art Prize, Bremen, Germany
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Lives and works with Kira Perov, wife and collaborator, in Long Beach, CA, USA
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BFA, Experimental Studios, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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Mythologies, Haunch of Venison London, UK.
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2009
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Silent Mountain (2001), Four Hands (2001), Catherine's Room (2001), Ascension (2000), will be shown in the exhibition Being Time, The Pier Art Centre, Stromness, Orkney, UK (solo)
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2008
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Ocean Without a Shore (2007), The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea (solo)
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2008
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Tristan et Isolde, Opera National de Paris, France (solo)
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2008
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Migration (1976), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA
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2007
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52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
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2006
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Los Angeles 1955 – 1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
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2006
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Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
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2005
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A Kind of Magic, Lucerne Museum of Art, Switzerland
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2005
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The Passions, J. Paul Getty Museum exhibition travels to Fundación la Caixa, Madrid, Spain and National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia (solo)
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2005
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Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, USA
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2004
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L'Ombre du temps, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
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2004
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Transcultures, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
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2003
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"Bill Viola: The Passions", The J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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2002
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"Like Painting", Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
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2002
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"Bill Viola: Going Forth By Day", Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York
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2002
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"Bill Viola: Going Forth By Day", Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
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2002
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Synopsis II: Theologies at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
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2002
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Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, PS1, MoMA, Long Island, New York, USA
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2001
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Artcité: When Montreal Turns into a Museum, Musée d‟Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada
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2001
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Hieronymous Bosch, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherland Plateau of Humankind, Forty-Ninth Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
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2001
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"Bill Viola: The Quintet of Rememberance", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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2001
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"Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium and other new works", Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
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2000
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"Bill Viola: Stations", Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
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2000
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"Bill Viola: New Work", James Cohan Gallery, New York
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1997
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"Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey" (organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art), Travels to Chapelle Saint-Louise de la Salpetriere, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1998); Stedelijk Museum
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1997
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"Bill Viola: Fire, Water, Breath", Guggenheim Museum (SoHo), New York
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1996
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"Bill Viola: The Messenger"(organized by the Chaplaincy to the Arts and Recreation, Northeast England), Durham Cathedral, Visual Arts Festival UK 1996, Durham, England. Traveled from 1997-1998
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1996
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"Bill Viola: New Work", Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
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1996
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3e Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, Musée d‟Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
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1995
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"Buried Secrets"(organized by Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe), United States Pavilion, 46th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Travels to Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (1995) as "Buried Secrets/Vergrabene Geheimnisse"; Arizona State
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1994
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"Bill Viola: Territorio do Invisivel/Site of the Unseen", Centro Cultural/Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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1993
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"Bill Viola", Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal
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1992
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"Bill Viola. Unseen Images/Niegesehene Bilder/Images jamais vues ", Stadtische Sweden (1993); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (1993); Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (1993); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England (1993), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (1994)
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1992
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"Bill Viola: Two Installations", Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England
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1992
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"Bill Viola", Donald Young Gallery, Seattle; Washington
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1992
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Passages de l’image, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
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1990
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"Bill Viola: The Sleep of Reason", Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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1989
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"Bill Viola", Fukui Fine Arts Museum of Art, Fukui City, Japan, The 3rd Fukui International Video Biennale
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1988
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American Landscape Video: The Electronic Grove, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
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