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.
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The Raft (2004)
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Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity (2013)
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Going Forth By Day (2002)
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Mary (2016)
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The Voyage (2002)
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The Tristan Project (2004)
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The Morning After the Night of Power (1977)
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Déserts (1994)
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Hatsu Yume (First Dream) (1981)
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Return (1975)
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The Sleepers (1992)
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Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) (1979)
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Ascension (2000)
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The Dreamers (2013)
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Memories Of Ancestral Power (1977)
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The Space Between the Teeth (1976)
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The Reflecting Pool (1979)
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The Wheel of Becoming (1977)
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Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979 (1979)
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Ancient of Days (1982)
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Martyrs (2014)
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Martyrs: Air (2014)
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Slowly Turning Narrative (1992)
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Ablutions (2005)
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The Innocents (2008)
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Junkyard Levitation (1976)
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Martyrs: Fire (2014)
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The Crossing (—)
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Martyrs: Water (2014)
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Migration (for Jack Nelson) (1976)
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Surrender (2001)
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Playing Soul Music to My Freckles So They Won't Get Lonely (1975)
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Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers (1977)
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I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like (1986)
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Walking on the Edge (2012)
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Martyrs: Earth (2014)
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Fire Birth (2002)
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Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers (1984)
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Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House (1983)
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Emergence (2003)
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Information (1973)
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Songs of Innocence (1976)
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Anima (2000)
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Red Tape: Collected Works (1975)
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (2018)
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Eternal Return (2000)
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The Veiling (1995)
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Poem B (The Guest House) (2006)
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Truth Through Mass Individuation (1976)
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A Phrase from Chris (2011)
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The Encounter (2012)
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Sweet Light (1977)
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The Crossing (1996)
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Ocean Without a Shore (2007)
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The Stopping Mind (1990)
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Moonblood (1979)
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Basin of Tears (2005)
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Anthem (1983)
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Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall) (2005)
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Traveling on Foot (2012)
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Vegetable Memory (1980)
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Silent Life (1986)
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The Semi-Circular Canals (1975)
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Interval (1995)
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The Quintet of the Astonished (2000)
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He Weeps for You (1977)
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Four Hands (2001)
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Angel's Gate (1989)
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The Greeting (1995)
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Sodium Vapor (1986)
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A Million Other Things (2) (1975)
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Three Women (2008)
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The Path (2002)
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A Non-Dairy Creamer (1975)
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The Passing (1992)
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Inverted Birth (2014)
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The Nantes Triptych (1992)
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Four Songs (1976)
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Heaven and Earth (1992)
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Fire Woman (2005)
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The Silent Sea (2002)
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Catherine's Room (2001)
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