Bill Viola - Solo Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

• 1973 "New Video Work," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
• 1974 "Bill Viola: Video and Sound Installations," The Kitchen Center, New York
• 1979 "Projects: Bill Viola," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 1983 "Bill Viola," ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
• 1985 "Summer 1985," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• 1985 "Bill Viola," Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• 1987 "Bill Viola: Installations and Videotapes," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 1988 "Bill Viola: Survey of a Decade," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
• 1989 "Bill Viola," Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui City, Japan, part of The 3rd Fukui International Video Biennale.
• 1990 "Bill Viola: The Sleep of Reason," Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France
• 1991 "Bill Viola: The Passing," South London Gallery, London, England
• 1992 "Bill Viola: Nantes Triptych," Chappelle de l'Oratoire, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France
• 1992 "Bill Viola," Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington (five installations)
• 1992 "Bill Viola: Two Installations," Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England
• 1992 "Bill Viola. Unseen Images," Stadtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany. Travels to: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (1993); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (1993); Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (1993); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England (1993), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (1994)
• 1994 "Bill Viola: Stations," American Center inaugural opening, Paris, France
• 1994 "Bill Viola: Território do Invisível/Site of the Unseen," Centro Cultural/Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 1995 "Buried Secrets," United States Pavilion, 46th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Travels to Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (1995); Arizona State University Art Museum (1996)
• 1996 "Bill Viola: New Work," Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia (installation)
• 1996 "Bill Viola: The Messenger," Durham Cathedral, Visual Arts UK 1996, Durham, England. Travels to South London Gallery, London, England (1996); Video Positiva-Moviola, Liverpool, England; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Oriel Mostyn, Gwynedd, Wales; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (1997); La Chapelle Saint Louis de la Salpetriere, Paris
• 1997 “Bill Viola: Fire, Water, Breath,” Guggenheim Museum (SoHo), New York
• 1997 “Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey” organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art (catalogue). Travels to Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1998); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1998) (catalogue); Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (1999); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California (1999); Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (1999–2000)
• 2000 “The World of Appearances,” Helaba Main Tower, Frankfurt, Germany (permanent installation)
• 2000 “Bill Viola: New Work,” James Cohan Gallery, New York
• 2000 “Bill Viola: Stations,” Museum für Neue Kunst|ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
• 2001 “Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium,” Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
• 2002 "Bill Viola: Going Forth By Day," Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
• 2003 "Bill Viola: The Passions," Getty Museum, Los Angeles
• 2003 "Bill Viola," Kukje Gallery, Seoul
• 2003 "Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium," Ruhrtriennale, Gasometer, Oberhausen, Germany
• 2003 "Bill Viola: The Passions," National Gallery, London
• 2004 "Bill Viola: Temporality and Transcendence," Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
• 2005 "Bill Viola: The Passions," Fundación "la Caixa," Madrid, Spain
• 2005 "Bill Viola Visions," ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
• 2005 "Bill Viola," James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
• 2005 "Tristan und Isolde," fully staged opera premiere at the Opéra National de Paris, France
• 2006 "Bill Viola – Video", 2006 Recipient of the NORD/LB Art Prize, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
• 2006 "LOVE/DEATH The Tristan Project," Haunch of Venison (two venues), London, UK
• 2007 "Bill Viola: Hatsu-Yume (First Dream)", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Hyōgo Prefectural Art Museum, Kobe, Japan, including the 56-minute title piece and many works from the artist's private collection.
• 2007 "Bill Viola: Four hands (2001), kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland.
• 2008 "Bill Viola: Hatsu-Yume (First Dream)",,Spain until 30 April
• 2008-9 "Bill Viola: Ocean without a shore", National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
• 2009 "Bill Viola: Intimate work", Museum De Pont, Tilburg, Netherlands
• 2010-11 "Bill Viola: The Raft", Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI) and Kaldor Public Art Projects, Australia
• 2012 "Bill Viola: Reflections", Villa Panza, Varese, Italy