Bill Viola

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• Bill Viola Chronology

  Bill Viola retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art ran February 12–May 10, 1998; the exhibition toured to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Stedelikj Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition catalog includes A Feeling for the Things Themselves (David Ross); Conversation (Lewis Hyde and Bill Viola); and Selected Works 1972–1996 (Kira Perov and Bill Viola); it contains a catalog of works, exhibition history and a chronology.

• Bill Viola: Video Visions From the Inner Self Bibliography

• Bill Viola: Video Visions From the Inner Self, Part II Bibliography

• A Conversation with Bill Viola Bibliography

• Bill Viola: Installations and Videotapes The Poetics of Light and Time Bibliography

  Bill Viola (born 1951, Flushing, New York) is a video artist who since the 1970s has used broadcast-quality electronic technology to produce videotapes and video-and-sound installations exploring layers of human consciousness; he trained at Syracuse University (College of Visual and Performing Arts, 1973) and worked at Synapse and WNET/Thirteen's Artists' Television Laboratory. He has collaborated with Kira Perov and engineers such as John Godfrey, lived and worked in Japan (including Sony's Atsugi facility), settled in southern California in 1981, and created works including Four Songs (1976), Chott el-Djerid (1979), Ancient of Days (1979–81), Hatsu Yume (1981), Reasons for Knocking (1982), Room for St. John of the Cross (1983), I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like (1986), and Passage (1987).

• Bill Viola Bibliography