Bill Viola (born United States of America, 1951) is a contemporary video artist. Viola is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic sound and image technology. Bill Viola was born on January 25, 1951 and grew up in Queens, New York, and Westbury, New York. He attended P.S. 20 in Flushing, where he was Captain of the TV Squad. On vacation in the mountains with his family, Bill Viola nearly drowned in a lake.

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  • Bill Viola (born United States of America, 1951) is a contemporary video artist. Viola is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic sound and image technology. Bill Viola was born on January 25, 1951 and grew up in Queens, New York, and Westbury, New York. He attended P.S. 20 in Flushing, where he was Captain of the TV Squad. On vacation in the mountains with his family, Bill Viola nearly drowned in a lake. An experience, which he describes as “… the most beautiful world I’ve ever seen in my life” and “without fear,” and “peaceful” Viola went on to Syracuse University, where he studied in the Experimental Studios of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, including the Synapse experimental program, which evolved into CitrusTV. In 1973 he graduated from Syracuse with a Bachelor in Fine Arts. His first job on graduation was as a video technician at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. From 1973 to 1980 he studied and performed with composer David Tudor in the new music group "Rainforest". From 1974-1976 Viola worked as technical director at Art/Tapes/22, a pioneering video studio in Florence, Italy where he encountered video artists Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, and Vito Acconci. From 1976-1983 he was artist-in-residence at WNET Thirteen Television Laboratory in New York. In 1976 and 1977 he traveled to the Solomon Islands, Java, Indonesia to record traditional performing arts. In 1977 Viola was invited to show work at La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) by cultural arts director Kira Perov. Viola and Perov later married, beginning an important lifelong collaboration in working and traveling together. In 1980, they lived in Japan for a year and a half on a Japan/U.S. cultural exchange fellowship where they studied Buddhism with Zen Master Daien Tanaka. During this time Viola was also artist-in-residence at Sony Corporation's Atsugi Laboratories. In 1983 became an instructor in Advanced Video, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California. In 1995 Viola represented the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, for which he produced a series of works Buried Secrets, including one of his best known works The Greeting, a contemporary interpretation of Pontormo's The Visitation. In 1997 a major retrospective of 25 years of Bill Viola's work was organised and internationally toured by the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1998 he was Getty Scholar-in-residence at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Viola was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 2000. In 2002, Viola completed Going Forth By Day, a digital “fresco” cycle in High-Definition video, commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 2003,The Passions was exhibited in Los Angeles, London, Madrid and Canberra. This was a major collection of Viola's emotionally charged slow motion works inspired by traditions within Renaissance devotional painting. In 2004 Viola began work on a new production of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, a collaboration with director Peter Sellars, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and executive producer Kira Perov. The opera was premiered at the Opéra National de Paris in 2005 and Viola's video work was subsequently shown as LOVE/DEATH The Tristan Project at the Haunch of Venison Gallery and St Olave's School, London, in 2006. During 2007, the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo in Sevilla www. caac. es, organized an exhibition at the Palace of Charles V in la Alhambra- Granada- in which Viola's work dialogues with the Fine Arts Collection of the museum. In 2009 Bill Viola was awarded the 2009 Catalonia International Prize, known as the XXI Premi Internacional Catalunya 2009 by the Catalonian government of Spain. The award honors an individual "whose creative work has made a significant contribution to the development of cultural, scientific or human values anywhere in the world."
  • Bill Viola ist ein amerikanischer Video- und Installationskünstler. Viola kann als führender Vertreter der Videokunst angesehen werden. Bill Viola lebt mit seiner Frau Kira Perov und ihren beiden Kindern im kalifornischen Long Beach.
  • Bill Viola és un vídeo-artista nord-americà més importants i coneguts arreu del món. Amb una carrera de més de 35 anys la seva contribució al gènere del videoart és internacionalment reconeguda. L'any 2009 fou guardonat amb el Premi Internacional Catalunya, concedit per la Generalitat de Catalunya, com a reconeixement "de la seva obra alhora artística i tècnica, personal i espiritual, mitjançant l'ús del videoart, del qual n'és pioner".
  • Bill Viola es un artista estadounidense.
  • Bill Viola est un artiste américain né à New York le 25 janvier 1951. Il s'est principalement illustré par la création de monumentales installations et est un des pionniers de l’art vidéo.
  • Bill Viola è uno fra i più apprezzati artisti nell'ambito della Videoarte.
  • ビル・ヴィオラ(Bill Viola、1951年1月25日 -)は、ナム・ジュン・パイクとともにビデオ・アートを代表するアーティストである。
  • Bill Viola is een internationaal bekend videokunstenaar. Hij levert al gedurende decennia belangrijke bijdragen aan de videokunst. Hij woont met zijn vrouw en twee kinderen in Long Beach in Californië.
  • Bill Viola – amerykański artysta specjalizujący się w sztuce wideo i instalacjach wizualno-dźwiękowych. Podstawowe wykształcenie artystyczne otrzymał w Experimental Studios of the Collage of Visual and Performing Arts w Syracuse University. W 1973 ukończył studia i niebawem rozpoczął pracę w studiu wideo Art/tapes/22 we Florencji, gdzie poznał Nam June Paika, Bruce Naumana i Vito Acconciego, którymi inspirował się już w czasie studiów. Podczas jednego ze swoich zagranicznych pobytów w Japonii poznał swoją żonę, współpracowniczkę i towarzyszkę podroży Kire Perov. Viola żywo interesuje się mistycyzmem islamskim i chrześcijańskim oraz buddyzmem, który studiował wraz z Kirą u mistrza Zen Daien Tanaka. Obecnie mieszka i pracuje w Long Beach w Kalifornii. Jego prace poruszają najistotniejsze tematy ludzkiej egzystencji, takie jak narodziny, śmierć czy miłość. Pracuje najczęściej na obrazach rzeczywistości, które najchętniej czerpie prosto z ulicy, terenów industrialnych czy środowiska naturalnego. Często w swoich pracach wideo używa slow-motion - efektu polegającego na spowolnieniu ruchu obrazu. Bill Viola wystawia swoje prace muzeach świata, takich jak londyńska National Gallery, berliński Guggenheim, nowojorski Guggenheim, Whitney Musemum of American Art, Getty w Los Angeles i Metropolitan Museum of Art w Nowym Jorku.
  • Bill Viola é um videoartista estadunidense, começou sua carreira na década de 1970 com trabalhos no Everson Museun em Syracuse, Nova York. Foi influenciado por artistas como Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman e Peter Campus. Seu trabalhos em vídeo consistem em instalações, vídeos e performances, sendo marcados por um uso transparente do aparato videográfico, um controle e entendimento complexo do tempo, e por um inventivo uso do som. O tom espiritual de vídeos como The passing(1991) é constante em sua oba, já vídeos como Reverse Television(1983) trabalham uma crítica à televisão e à passividade de telespectadores, já Chott-l-Djerid(1979) apresenta imagens "abstratas" que fogem à analogia fotográfica. Ele trabalha códigos simbólicos e reflete sobre a falta de consciência coletiva na arte e faz um uso muito próprio do sonho e da fantasia. Seu trabalho mais recente é Ocean Without a Shore(2007).
  • Билл Виола — современный американский художник, работающий в жанре видео-арт.
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  • Bill Viola (born United States of America, 1951) is a contemporary video artist. Viola is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic sound and image technology. Bill Viola was born on January 25, 1951 and grew up in Queens, New York, and Westbury, New York. He attended P.S. 20 in Flushing, where he was Captain of the TV Squad. On vacation in the mountains with his family, Bill Viola nearly drowned in a lake.
  • Bill Viola ist ein amerikanischer Video- und Installationskünstler. Viola kann als führender Vertreter der Videokunst angesehen werden. Bill Viola lebt mit seiner Frau Kira Perov und ihren beiden Kindern im kalifornischen Long Beach.
  • Bill Viola és un vídeo-artista nord-americà més importants i coneguts arreu del món. Amb una carrera de més de 35 anys la seva contribució al gènere del videoart és internacionalment reconeguda. L'any 2009 fou guardonat amb el Premi Internacional Catalunya, concedit per la Generalitat de Catalunya, com a reconeixement "de la seva obra alhora artística i tècnica, personal i espiritual, mitjançant l'ús del videoart, del qual n'és pioner".
  • Bill Viola es un artista estadounidense.
  • Bill Viola est un artiste américain né à New York le 25 janvier 1951. Il s'est principalement illustré par la création de monumentales installations et est un des pionniers de l’art vidéo.
  • Bill Viola è uno fra i più apprezzati artisti nell'ambito della Videoarte.
  • ビル・ヴィオラ(Bill Viola、1951年1月25日 -)は、ナム・ジュン・パイクとともにビデオ・アートを代表するアーティストである。
  • Bill Viola is een internationaal bekend videokunstenaar. Hij levert al gedurende decennia belangrijke bijdragen aan de videokunst. Hij woont met zijn vrouw en twee kinderen in Long Beach in Californië.
  • Bill Viola – amerykański artysta specjalizujący się w sztuce wideo i instalacjach wizualno-dźwiękowych. Podstawowe wykształcenie artystyczne otrzymał w Experimental Studios of the Collage of Visual and Performing Arts w Syracuse University. W 1973 ukończył studia i niebawem rozpoczął pracę w studiu wideo Art/tapes/22 we Florencji, gdzie poznał Nam June Paika, Bruce Naumana i Vito Acconciego, którymi inspirował się już w czasie studiów.
  • Bill Viola é um videoartista estadunidense, começou sua carreira na década de 1970 com trabalhos no Everson Museun em Syracuse, Nova York. Foi influenciado por artistas como Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman e Peter Campus. Seu trabalhos em vídeo consistem em instalações, vídeos e performances, sendo marcados por um uso transparente do aparato videográfico, um controle e entendimento complexo do tempo, e por um inventivo uso do som.
  • Билл Виола — современный американский художник, работающий в жанре видео-арт.
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