è nato a New York nel 1951.
Vive e lavora a Long Beach.
Selezione dalle personali2003
Bill Viola. The Passions, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The National Gallery, London; Fundación La Caixa, Madrid (2005).
Kukje Gallery, Seoul.
Five Agels for the Millennium, Ruhrtriennale, Gasometer, Oberhausen.
2004
Temporality and Trascendence, Guggenheim, Bilbao.
2005
Bill Viola Visions, ARos Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus.
Collettive2002
Synopsis II. Theologies at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athína.
The Power of Art, Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Art, Kobe.
Material World. From Lichtenstein to Viola, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
2003
Process. Encounters in Living Situations/Shifting Spaces, KIASMA, Helsinki.
The Body Transformed, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
2004
Multiple Spaces, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden.
Sons et lumièes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
2005
Marking Time/Moving Images, Miami Art Museum, Miami.