Bill Viola - Awards

Awards

  • 1984 Polaroid Video Art Award for outstanding achievement, USA
  • 1987 Maya Deren Award, American Film Institute, USA
  • 1989 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award, USA
  • 1993 Skowhegan Medal (Video Installation), USA
  • 1993 Medienkunstpreis, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, and Siemens Kulturprogramm, Germany
  • 2003 Cultural Leadership Award, American Federal of Arts, USA
  • 2006 NORD/LB Art Prize, Bremen, Germany
  • 2009 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts, MIT, Cambridge, MA He was awarded $75,000 and was able to go to MIT and help enhance the creative groups there.
  • 2009 Catalonia International Prize, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2010 Honorary doctorate from the University of Liège, Belgium
  • 2011 Praemium Imperiale, Japan

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