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ID: 500092205
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500092205
 
Record Type: Person
Viola, Bill (American video artist, 1951-2024)

Note: Considered one of the masters of video art since the 1970s, having mounted many exhibitions that have been considered technically innovative.

Names:
Viola, Bill (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Viola, Bill (Dutch-P,NA)
Bill Viola (V,display)
Viola, William (V)
Viola, William John, Jr. (V)
ויולה, ביל (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
video artist
installation artist

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  Long Beach (Los Angeles county, California, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   Long Beach (Los Angeles county, California, United States) (inhabited place)
exhibition:   "The Passions" at the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003  Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California, United States) (inhabited place)
exhibition:   retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1997-1998; travelled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art  New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)
exhibition:   1995 46th Venice Biennale  Venice (Venezia province, Veneto, Italy) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
collaborated with ....  Sellars, Peter  
................................  (American theater director, born 1957) [500222117]
spouse of ....  Perov, Kira  
................  (American director and curator, born 1951) [500656082]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Viola, Bill (I)

Biographies:
(American video artist, 1951-2024) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American video artist, b.1951) ..... [BHA]
(American artist, born 1951) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American video artist, born 1951) ..... [AVERY]
(American video and sound installation artist) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, born 1951) ..... [GRL]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, born 1951) ..... [MoMA]
(American video artist, born 1951) ..... [IMJ]
(American video artist, 1951-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
ויולה, ביל ........ [IMJ]
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Bill Viola ........ [GRISC, MoMA, VP]
......................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
......................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
......................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Viola, Bill ........ [AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
........................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
........................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M8
........................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
........................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 85006497
........................  Phillips, California Video (2008) 238
........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 116971
........................  Witt Library, Authority files
Viola, William ........ [Grove Art, VP]
..............................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..............................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 24 Jan 2003
Viola, William John, Jr. ........ [VP]
................................................  New York Times [online] (2000-)

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, IMJ, MoMA, RKD, VP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n85006497
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-)
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 24 Jan 2003
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-) accessed 24 Jan 2003
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n85006497
....................  New York Times [online] (2000-) obit. 13 July 2024
....................  Phillips, California Video (2008) 238
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 116971
....................  Studio International 191/981 (1976)
....................  Video Art (1975)
....................  Who's Who in American Art (1936-) 1989
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q437616
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, VP]
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
.......... New York Times [online] (2000-) obit.
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