Exhibitions
Bill Viola : Restrospective
The Space Between the Teeth, 1976
From Four Songs, 1976
Videotape collection
Color, mono sound; 33:00 minutes total
Courtesy Bill Viola Studio
© Bill Viola
Photo: Kira Perov
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The Reflecting Pool, 1977–9
Videotape, color, mono sound; 7 minutes
Performer: Bill Viola
Courtesy Bill Viola Studio
© Bill Viola
Photo: Kira Perov
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Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat), 1979
Videotape, color, mono sound; 28:00 minutes
Courtesy Bill Viola Studio
© Bill Viola
Photo: Kira Perov
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Slowly Turning Narrative, 1992
Video/sound installation
Continuously running
Courtesy Bill Viola Studio
© Bill Viola
Photo: Gary McKinnis
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The Greeting, 1995
Video/sound installation
10:22 minutes
Performers: Angela Black, Suzanne Peters, Bonnie Snyder
Courtesy Bill Viola Studio
© Bill Viola
Photo: Kira Perov
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The Veiling, 1995
Video/sound installation
30:00 minutes
Performers: Lora Stone, Gary Murphy
Courtesy Bill Viola Studio
© Bill Viola
Photo: Roman Mensing
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Catherine’s Room, 2001
Color video polyptych on five flat panel displays
18:39 minutes
Performer: Weba Garretson
Courtesy Bill Viola Studio
© Bill Viola
Photo: Kira Perov
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Surrender, 2001
Color video diptych on flat panel displays
18:00 minutes
Performers: John Fleck, Weba Garretson
Courtesy Bill Viola Studio
© Bill Viola
Photo: Kira Perov
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First Light, 2002
Panel 5 of 5 panels from Going Forth By Day (2002)
Video/sound installation
34:30 minutes
Performers: Melina Bielefelt, Hector Contreras, Weba Garretson, Dan
Gerrity, John Hay, Michael Eric Strickland
Courtesy Bill Viola Studio
© Bill Viola
Photo: Kira Perov
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Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall), 2005
Video/sound installation
10:16 minutes
Performer: John Hay
Courtesy Bill Viola Studio
© Bill Viola
Photo: Kira Perov
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Fire Woman, 2005
Video/sound installation
11:12 minutes
Performer: Robin Bonaccorsi
Courtesy Bill Viola Studio
© Bill Viola
Photo: Kira Perov
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Chapel of Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures, 2013
Video/sound installation
Continuously running
Performers: Tomas Arceo, John Brunold, Cathy Chang, John Fleck, Joanne
Lindquist, Tim Ottman, Kira Perov, Valerie Spencer, Ivan Villa, Bill Viola, Blake
Viola
Courtesy Bill Viola Studio
© Bill Viola
Photo: Kira Perov
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The Dreamers, 2013 (detail)
Video/sound installation
Continuously running
Performer: Madison Corn
Courtesy Bill Viola Studio
© Bill Viola
Photo: Kira Perov
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Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity, 2013
Video installation
18:54 minutes
Performers: Luis Accinelli, Penelope Safranek
Courtesy Bill Viola Studio
© Bill Viola
Photo: Kira Perov
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Inverted Birth, 2014
Video/sound installation
8:22 minutes
Performer: Norman Scott
Courtesy Bill Viola Studio
© Bill Viola
Photo: Kira Perov
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