Bill Viola is considered by many to be the leading video artist working today. To find out more about Bill Viola, read David Morgan’s article from Image #26.

Whoever is not a lover sees in the water his own image. –Rumi

Current Projects
January 2002

Bill Viola’s video installations have appeared at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Centro Cultural/Banco do Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, the Anthony d’Offay and Whitechapel Galleries in London, the Musée d’Art Moderne and the American Center inaugural opening in Paris, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art in Fukui City. In 1995, he represented the United States at the Forty-Sixth Venice Biennale. In 1997, the Whitney Museum of American Art organizedBill Viola: A 25-Year Survey, an exhibition that traveled to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Chicago. And in 2000, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been scholar-in-residence at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles, has received a MacArthur Foundation Award, and has honorary doctorates from six schools including the Art Institute of Chicago. His most recent exhibit was Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium, at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery in London. For more on Bill Viola, visit www.billviola.com