Bill Viola

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bill Viola
Occupation	Multimedia Artist
Date Of Birth	Jan 25, 1951(1951-01-25)
Age	73
Birthplace	Queens
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Capricorn

Bill Viola Biography

Bill Viola is one of the most popular and richest Multimedia Artist who was born on January 25, 1951 in Queens, New York, United States. The acclaimed multimedia artist is best known for his human-centered video artworks. The most famous works of his are The Quintet Series, The Tristan Project as well as An Ocean Without a Shore.

In the late 1970s, the musician worked in the 1970s with electronic musician During the 1970s, he collaborated with electronic composer David Tudor as a member of a music group called Rainforest. as an artist in a music group known as Rainforest.

Viola’s first job after graduation was as a video technician at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. From 1973 to 1980, he studied and performed with composer David Tudor in the new music group “Rainforest” (later named “Composers Inside Electronics”). From 1974 to 1976, Viola worked as technical director at Art/tapes/22 [it] , a pioneering video studio led by Maria Gloria Conti Bicocchi, in Florence, Italy where he encountered video artists Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, and Vito Acconci. From 1976 to 1983, he was artist-in- residence at WNET Thirteen Television Laboratory in New York. In 1976 and 1977, he traveled to the Solomon Islands, Java and Indonesia to record traditional performing arts.

In 1973 Viola graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in experimental studies. He studied in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, including the Synapse experimental program, which evolved into CitrusTV.

The couple met their wife and collaborator in art, Kira Perov, while showing his work on La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.

Bill Viola Net Worth

Bill Viola is one of the richest Multimedia Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bill Viola 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After obtaining an B.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Syracuse University He was able to secure the position of a technician within the Syracuse’s Everson Museum of Art.

His many awards include his 1984 Polaroid Video Art Award and an award in 1989 from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award.

Bill Viola (born 1951) is a contemporary video artist whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness.

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Who is Bill Viola Dating?

According to our records, Bill Viola married to Kira Perov. As of December 1, 2023, Bill Viola’s is not dating anyone.

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In 1983, he became an instructor in Advanced Video at the California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia, California. He represented the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale in 1995 for which he produced a series of works called Buried Secrets, including one of his best known works The Greeting, a contemporary interpretation of Pontormo’s The Visitation. In 1997, the Whitney Museum of American Art organized and toured internationally a major 25-year retrospective of Viola’s work.

Facts & Trivia

Bill Ranked on the list of most popular Multimedia Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Bill Viola celebrates birthday on January 25 of every year.

In 2000, Bill Viola collaborated with the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, and its lead singer Trent Reznor to create a video suite for the band’s tour. The triptych mainly is focused on water imagery and was supposed to be integral with the songs that were played.

Why is Bill Viola important?

Bill Viola (b. 1951) is internationally recognized as one of today’s leading artists. He has been instrumental in the establishment of video as a vital form of contemporary art , and in so doing has helped to greatly expand its scope in terms of technology, content, and historical reach.

Where is Bill Viola now?

Viola currently lives and works in Long Beach, CA. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, among others.

What kind of artist is Bill Viola?

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What is Bill Viola?

Bill Viola, in full William Viola, (born January 25, 1951, New York, New York, U.S.), American video, digital, and sound artist who was one of the pioneering figures of a generation of artists in the 1970s employing video art and sound technologies.

How does Bill Viola create his work?

Viola uses large-scale projection, extreme slow motion, and precise sound editing and looping to create his visual rendition of the unfolding of events within the vastness of time.