Talk:Bill Viola

Bedside reading materials?!?!?
I'm removing the section about what he keeps on his night table. It's frankly embarrassing to see something that self-celebratory in Wikipedia, and neither Mr. Viola nor probably anyone intimately familiar with his bedroom should be editing this page. Msalt (talk) 22:33, 12 November 2008 (UTC)


 * No reason to believe it was someone "intimately familiar with his bedroom". User:Sal29 added it based on this interview; he or she failed to use a ref tag to clearly cite it.  But I agree that it doesn't really fit in the article.  --dave pape (talk) 22:46, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Change to lede
I've added a sourced line to the lede and removed the unsourced one. Given Bill Viola's place in the history of electronic media I realize my addition somewhat understates his position in the art world and is a step down from the sentence I removed. I hope to do some work on this article and hopefully can add material that will explain Viola's position without becoming grandiose in any way.(olive (talk) 19:39, 25 February 2009 (UTC))
 * I like the change. Better to err on the side of understatement and documentation on such a subjective issue as his stature in the art world.  These things go through fashions, and the whole point of art should be to get past that. Msalt (talk) 19:28, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Viola's Three Structures
I believe that more clarification or supporting references are needed in this section. I feel that much confusion can be generated by your statement, "...This form of data structure pertains to pure or mostly randomness." You have not, in this subheading, explained what you mean by "randomness," let alone "pure randomness." You even continue on to end this section with the sentence, "All randomness." This extremely short sentence only adds to the confusion of what has failed to be mentioned beforehand. Please clarify these claims. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RazorXX8 (talk • contribs) 06:33, 29 October 2009 (UTC)


 * On reading this section, I believe it should actually just be removed. Or a very much shortened reference to it should be included in the 'Art Work' section. It seems to float in the page without context, and is far to long-winded. Levcampbell (talk) 13:08, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Whole 'Art Work' section - should it be removed or re-written?
This section, while being useful, as a whole it is almost entirely opinion, and unreferenced. While I think it important to have section which provides a critical context, I recommend the section as it is be removed and completely re-written, with ciritical discussion of his work only coming from referenced academic sources, such as the various histories of video art that include discussion of Viola's work - of which there are several, not to mention the plethora of academic papers. We shouldn't have unreferenced opinion here, no matter how insightful. Will anyone attempt this? I'll have a crack at it myself, if in a few weeks time if no-one else has, and if there are no objections. Levcampbell (talk) 13:00, 25 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I wouldn't mind having something with more references and less opinionated as you say, but I wouldn't delete the section until such content is ready to be published. Also, if you can write something better, go for it as it might take time for someone else to do it. GuzonjinSin (talk) 23:37, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

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Solo exhibitions

 * 1973 "New Video Work," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
 * 1974 "Bill Viola: Video and Sound Installations," The Kitchen Center, New York
 * 1979 "Projects: Bill Viola," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
 * 1983 "Bill Viola," ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
 * 1985 "Summer 1985," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
 * 1985 "Bill Viola," Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
 * 1987 "Bill Viola: Installations and Videotapes," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
 * 1988 "Bill Viola: Survey of a Decade," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
 * 1989 "Bill Viola," Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui City, Japan, part of The 3rd Fukui International Video Biennale.
 * 1990 "Bill Viola: The Sleep of Reason," Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France
 * 1991 "Bill Viola: The Passing," South London Gallery, London, England
 * 1992 "Bill Viola: Nantes Triptych," Chapelle de l'Oratoire, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France
 * 1992 "Bill Viola," Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington (five installations)
 * 1992 "Bill Viola: Two Installations," Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England
 * 1992 "Bill Viola. Unseen Images," Stadtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany. Travels to: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (1993); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (1993); Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (1993); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England (1993), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (1994)
 * 1994 "Bill Viola: Stations," American Center inaugural opening, Paris, France
 * 1994 "Bill Viola: Território do Invisível/Site of the Unseen," Centro Cultural/Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 * 1995 "Buried Secrets," United States Pavilion, 46th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Travels to Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (1995); Arizona State University Art Museum (1996)
 * 1996 "Bill Viola: New Work," Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia (installation)
 * 1996 "Bill Viola: The Messenger," Durham Cathedral, Visual Arts UK 1996, Durham, England. Travels to South London Gallery, London, England (1996); Video Positiva-Moviola, Liverpool, England; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (1997); La Chapelle Saint Louis de la Salpetriere, Paris
 * 1997 "Bill Viola: Fire, Water, Breath," Guggenheim Museum (SoHo), New York
 * 1997 "Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey" organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art (catalogue). Travels to Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1998); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1998) (catalogue); Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (1999); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California (1999); Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (1999–2000)
 * 2000 "The World of Appearances," Helaba Main Tower, Frankfurt, Germany (permanent installation)
 * 2000 "Bill Viola: New Work," James Cohan Gallery, New York
 * 2000 "Bill Viola: Stations," Museum für Neue Kunst|ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
 * 2001 "Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium," Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
 * 2002 "Bill Viola: Going Forth By Day," Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
 * 2003 "Bill Viola: The Passions," Getty Museum, Los Angeles
 * 2003 "Bill Viola," Kukje Gallery, Seoul
 * 2003 "Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium," Ruhrtriennale, Gasometer, Oberhausen, Germany
 * 2003 "Bill Viola: The Passions," National Gallery, London
 * 2004 "Bill Viola: Temporality and Transcendence," Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
 * 2005 "Bill Viola: The Passions," Fundación "la Caixa," Madrid, Spain
 * 2005 "Bill Viola Visions," ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
 * 2005 "Bill Viola," James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
 * 2005 "Tristan und Isolde," fully staged opera premiere at the Opéra National de Paris, France
 * 2006 "Bill Viola – Video", 2006 Recipient of the NORD/LB Art Prize, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
 * 2006 "LOVE/DEATH The Tristan Project," Haunch of Venison (two venues), London, UK
 * 2007 "Bill Viola: Hatsu-Yume (First Dream)", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Hyōgo Prefectural Art Museum, Kobe, Japan, including the 56-minute title piece and many works from the artist's private collection.
 * 2007 "Bill Viola: Four hands (2001), Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland.
 * 2007 "Ocean without a shore", San Gallo Church, Venice, Italy.
 * 2008 "Bill Viola: Hatsu-Yume (First Dream)", [CACMalaga], Spain until 30 April.
 * 2008 "Visioni interiori", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy.
 * 2008-9 "Bill Viola: Ocean without a shore", National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.
 * 2009 "Bill Viola: Intimate work", Museum De Pont, Tilburg, Netherlands.
 * 2010-11 "Bill Viola: The Raft", Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and Kaldor Public Art Projects, Australia.
 * 2011-12 "The Crossing," SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.
 * 2012 "Bill Viola: Reflections", Villa Panza, Varese, Italy.
 * 2013 "Bill Viola: Three Women", Puertas de Castilla, Murcia, Spain.
 * 2017 "Rinascimento Elettronico", Strozzi Palace and other museums, Florence, Italy.