Past Exhibitions at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

	Bill Viola: The Messenger
	Documentation This bibliography and exhibition history (from 1995 to the present) selectively updates the bibliography and exhibition history in the exhibition catalogue Being and Time: The Emergence of Video Projection. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1996. An asterisk () next to an exhibition listing indicates that Viola's work The Messenger* was featured in that particular show.
	Exhibition History Selected One-Artist Exhibitions and Reviews
	1995-96	The United States Pavilion, 46th Venice Biennale, Italy. Bill Viola: Buried Secrets, June 11 - Oct. 15, 1995. Cat., text by Marilyn A. Zeitlin, Carl Haenlein, Susie Kalil, and the artist. Traveled to Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany, Dec. 2, 1995 - Jan. 28, 1996; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Mar.16 - June 16, 1996; and the Institute of Contemporary art, Boston, Massachusetts, July 3 - Sept. 29, 1996. Boyle, Dierdre. "Post-Traumatic Shock: Bill Viola's Recent Work." Afterimage (Rochester, NY), Sept./Oct. 1996, pp. 9-11. Stapen, Nancy. "Bill Viola: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston." Art News (New York), Oct. 1996, p. 143.
	1996	Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia. Bill Viola: New Work, June 22 - Sept.20, 1996. Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, California. Bill Viola: Stations, July 10 - Dec.22, 1996. Durham Cathedral, England. Bill Viola: The Messenger, Sept. 7 - Oct. 12, 1996. Commissioned by The Chaplaincy to the Arts and Recreation in North East England as part of 1996 Visual Arts UK. Cat., texts by Bill Hall, Stuart Morgan, David Jasper, and the artist. "Cathedral 'open late' as Nude Film Acclaimed." Northern Echo* (Darlington, England), Sept. 18, 1996. "Screens Go Up Around Nude in Nave." The Guardian (London), Sept. 7, 1996. Januszczak, Waldemar. "Closer to Godliness." The Sunday Times (London), Sept. 15, 1996. Milner, Catherine. "Cathedral Attacked over Video of Nude Man." The Sunday Telegraph (London), Aug. 4, 1996. O’Hagan, Andrew. "Durham’s Revelation." The Guardian - The Week (London), Sept. 7, 1996. Stokes, Paul. "Cathedral Has to Cover Up Video Nude." The Daily Telegraph (London), Sept. 7, 1996. Usherwood, Paul. "Bill Viola: Durham Cathedral." Art Monthly (London), Nov. 1996, pp. 26-27. Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France. Trilogy, Fire - Water - Breath,* Oct. 11 - Nov. 10, 1996. Vanel, Hervé. "Image: Viola Son: Varièse." Beaux Arts Magazine (Paris), Oct. 1996, pp. 72-73. The Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois. Bill Viola: Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House, Nov. 12 - 22, 1996.
	1997	Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, New York. Bill Viola: Fire, Water, Breath,* Jan. 18 - Mar. 23, 1997. Brochure, text by John G. Hanhardt. Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California. Bill Viola: The Theater of Memory, Jan. 25 - June 1, 1997.
	Selected Group Exhibitions
	1996	Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France. By Night, Feb. 2 - May 19, 1996. Brochure. Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, England. Portrait of the Artist, Apr. 25 - June 14, 1996. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Along the Frontier: Ann Hamilton, Bruce Nauman, Francesco Torres and Bill Viola, June 14 - Aug. 20, 1996. Organized by the International Center of Photography, New York. Brochure. Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, New York. Mediascape, June 14 - Sept. 15, 1996. Cat. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, Negotiating Rapture, The Power of Art to Transform Lives, July 2 - Oct. 20, 1996. Cat., ed. by Richard Francis and Sophia Shaw. Tests by Homi K. Bhabba, et al. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Islands: Contemporary Installations from Australia, Asia, Europe and America, Aug. 31 - Oct. 27, 1996. Cat., text by Kate Davidson and Michael Desmond. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Being & Time: The Emergence of Video Projection, Sept. 21 - Dec. 1, 1996. Cat., text by Marc Mayer. Traveled to Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Jan. 24 - Mar. 29, 1997; Portland Art Museum, Oregon, May 24 - July 27, 1997; and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, Aug. 8 - Oct. 12, 1997.

Bill Viola: The Messenger