Bill Viola
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A pioneer in the medium of video art, Bill Viola's work explores the spiritual and perceptual side of human experience. Since 1970 he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances and pieces for television. Works include Hatsu Yume (First Dream), The Passing, and installations Room for St. John of the Cross, The Messenger and The Quintet of the Astonished, recently shown at the National Gallery, London in "Encounters, New Art from Old". A 25-year survey exhibition of his work organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art recently traveled to 6 institutions in the USA and Europe. MacArthur Fellow.
Known for
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (2018)
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Going Forth By Day (2002)
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I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like (1986)
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The Reflecting Pool (1979)
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The Space Between the Teeth (1976)
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Anthem (1983)
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Hatsu Yume (First Dream) (1981)
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Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers (1984)
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A Million Other Things (2) (1975)
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Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) (1979)
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The Voyage (2002)
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The Dreamers (2013)
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The Silent Sea (2002)
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Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall) (2005)
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Migration (for Jack Nelson) (1976)
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The Raft (2004)
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Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers (1977)
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Surrender (2001)
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The Wheel of Becoming (1977)
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A Phrase from Chris (2011)
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Mary (2016)
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The Morning After the Night of Power (1977)
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Songs of Innocence (1976)
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The Passing (1992)
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He Weeps for You (1977)
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The Veiling (1995)
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Ocean Without a Shore (2007)
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Poem B (The Guest House) (2006)
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The Tristan Project (2004)
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Martyrs (2014)
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The Semi-Circular Canals (1975)
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The Stopping Mind (1990)
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A Non-Dairy Creamer (1975)
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Playing Soul Music to My Freckles So They Won't Get Lonely (1975)
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Red Tape: Collected Works (1975)
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Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House (1983)
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Walking on the Edge (2012)
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Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979 (1979)
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The Quintet of the Astonished (2000)
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Four Songs (1976)
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The Greeting (1995)
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Déserts (1994)
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The Nantes Triptych (1992)
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Ascension (2000)
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Truth Through Mass Individuation (1976)
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Heaven and Earth (1992)
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The Crossing (1996)
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The Crossing (—)
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Basin of Tears (2005)
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Information (1973)
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Return (1975)
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Four Hands (2001)
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Memories Of Ancestral Power (1977)
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Martyrs: Air (2014)
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The Path (2002)
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Eternal Return (2000)
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Moonblood (1979)
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Interval (1995)
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Slowly Turning Narrative (1992)
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Traveling on Foot (2012)
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Ancient of Days (1982)
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Martyrs: Earth (2014)
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Sweet Light (1977)
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Emergence (2003)
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Fire Birth (2002)
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Three Women (2008)
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Silent Life (1986)
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Anima (2000)
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The Encounter (2012)
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Ablutions (2005)
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Martyrs: Fire (2014)
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Martyrs: Water (2014)
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Junkyard Levitation (1976)
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Vegetable Memory (1980)
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Angel's Gate (1989)
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Inverted Birth (2014)
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The Innocents (2008)
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Sodium Vapor (1986)
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Fire Woman (2005)
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Catherine's Room (2001)
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The Sleepers (1992)
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Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity (2013)
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