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Bill Viola
[American Video Artist and Installation Artist, born in 1951]
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Original works by Bill Viola available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Home Page:
The Bill Viola Website
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Guggenheim Berlin
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Exhibition: Bill Viola: The Passions
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Chott el-Djerid, 1979
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Info about the 2005 exhibition, Bill Viola: The Passions
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Broad Art Foundation
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Man of Sorrows
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain (in Spanish) 
Information about a 2007 exhibition - see the link to the English ("Inglés") PDF document
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
The Crossing, 1996
De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Netherlands
Click "works in collection"
Hammer Museum, California NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Bill Viola in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Theater of Memory, 1985
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid NEW! (in Spanish)
San Jose Museum of Art, California
Memoria, 2000
Schleswig-Holstein Museums, Germany
5 works online
Tate Gallery, London, UK
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Nantes Triptych, 1992
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Filmography from the Internet Movie Database
The BBC
bill viola 'the passions'
The Sender Collection, New York
A private lending collection of Minimal and Conceptual Art
(Get past the splash page, then click "Artists")
Articles and Reference Sites:
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) 
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Apollo Magazine
Article: "Expanded memories"
Art + Auction Magazine
The Raft, 2004 (Click "next" to see several more photographs)
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 42): Bill Viola
New Media Encyclopedia NEW!
A project sponsored by several museums of contemporary art
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
Bill Viola on the Osservanza Master
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
Multimedia:
Google Video
Interview with the artist (video is French but Viola speaks in English)
Google Video
Reflecting Pool, 1979
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Information from a 1999 exhibition, includes video clips
TateShots: Tate Museum Videos about Art NEW!
Bill Viola discussing his installation for the 2009 Venice Biennale: Ocean Without a Shore
Video Data Bank: Video Art and Video Artists
Click on the videocamera icon to launch video (videos are fairly small)
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Bill Viola
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