Editing Bill Viola (section)

== Career ==
From 1973 to 1980, Viola studied and performed with composer [[David Tudor]] in the new music group "Rainforest" (later named "Composers Inside Electronics"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://composers-inside-electronics.net/cie/cie/cie_home.html|title=cie home|website=composers-inside-electronics.net}}</ref>). From 1974 to 1976, Viola worked as technical director at {{Interlanguage link|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]], before he became artist-in-residence at [[WNET]] Thirteen Television Laboratory in New York until 1983. In 1976 and 1977, he travelled to the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Java]], and [[Indonesia]] to record traditional performing arts.<ref name="RA"/>

Viola was invited to show work at [[La Trobe University]] (Melbourne, Australia) in 1977, by cultural arts director [[Kira Perov]]. Viola and Perov later married, beginning an important lifelong collaboration in working and traveling together. In 1980, they lived in Japan for a year and a half on a Japan/U.S. cultural exchange fellowship where they studied Buddhism with [[Zen]] Master Daien Tanaka.  During this time, Viola was also an artist-in-residence at [[Sony Corporation]]'s [[Atsugi]] Laboratories.<ref>[https://www.moma.org/artists/7898] Viola, Bill at [[MoMA]]</ref>

In 1983, he became an instructor in Advanced Video at the [[California Institute of the Arts]], in Valencia, California. Viola received a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]<ref>{{Cite web
| url = https://www.gf.org/fellows/bill-viola/
| title = Bill Viola - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
| website = www.gf.org
| access-date = May 30, 2024
}}</ref> for fine arts in 1985. Since the early Seventies he had exhibited his works regularly in group and solo exhibitions at [[Everson Museum of Art]] in Syracuse, at [[The Kitchen (art institution)|The Kitchen]], and the [[Museum of Modern Art]], where [[Barbara London (curator)|Barbara London]] directed the exhibition series "Projects", where works by Viola were shown 17 times and featured in two solo exhibitions until 1991.<ref>following</ref> 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.<ref name="RA"/>

Viola was the 1998, Getty Scholar-in-residence at the [[Getty Research Institute]], Los Angeles. Later, in 2000, he was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]. In 2002, he completed ''Going Forth By Day'', a digital "fresco" cycle in [[high-definition video]], commissioned by the [[Deutsche Guggenheim]] Berlin and the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|Guggenheim Museum]], New York.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/10594|title=Bill Viola Going Forth By Day|publisher=Guggenheim Foundation|accessdate=July 16, 2024}}</ref>

In 2003,''The Passions'' was exhibited in Los Angeles, London, Madrid, and Canberra. This was a major collection of Viola's emotionally charged, slow-motion works inspired by traditions within [[Renaissance]] devotional painting.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/viola/|title=Bill Viola: The Passions (Getty Exhibitions)|website=www.getty.edu|access-date=January 30, 2017}}</ref>

The first biography of Viola, entitled ''Viola on Vídeo'', was written by Federico Utrera (King Juan Carlos University) and published in Spain in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 20, 2011 |title=Llega 'Viola on Vídeo', de Federico Utrera |url=https://www.europapress.es/cultura/noticia-llega-viola-on-video-federico-utrera-20110620153223.html |access-date=April 27, 2024 |publisher=Europa Press}}</ref>

=== Bill Viola studio ===
Bill Viola studio is run by his wife, Kira Perov, who is the executive director.  She worked with Viola from 1978 managing and assisting him with his videotapes and installations. She documents their work in progress on location. All publications from the studio are edited by Perov.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Interview With Kira Perov From Bill Viola Studio ⇠ Blog ⇠ Borusan Contemporary |url=https://www.borusancontemporary.com/en/blog-interview-kira-perov-from-bill-viola-studio_866 |access-date=June 12, 2024 |website=www.borusancontemporary.com |language=en}}</ref>