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Bill Viola
[American Video Artist and Installation Artist, born in 1951]
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Bill Viola Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Commercial Galleries: Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service)
Original works by Bill Viola available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Home Page:
The Bill Viola Website
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Guggenheim Berlin
This space is now closed, but some information about past exhibitions remains online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
3 works online
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Exhibition: Bill Viola: The Passions
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Ascension, 2000
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Info about the 2005 exhibition, Bill Viola: The Passions
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
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
De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Netherlands
Click "works in collection"
Hammer Museum, California
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
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
San Jose Museum of Art, California
Memoria, 2000
Schleswig-Holstein Museums, Germany
5 works online
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
4 works online when last checked
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
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:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Bill Viola 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
A project sponsored by several museums of contemporary art
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Losing my religion", 2003 review by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Bill Viola at Haunch of Venison", brief 2006 review by Adrian Searle
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
Bill Viola on the Osservanza Master
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
Multimedia:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Information from a 1999 exhibition, includes video clips
Tate Channel
Bill Viola: Artist's Talk (2006)
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
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Bill Viola
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