Lives in Paris.Bill Fontana is internationally known for his experimental work in sound. He has worked since the late 60's in developing his unique art form, and has realized more than 50 sound sculptures (e.g. Sonic Projections from Schlossberg, Graz, 1988), 20 radio projects, sound installations for natural science museums and sound compositions for dance. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Berliner Künstler Programm of the DAAD and the Japan U.S. Friendship Commision. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Post Museum in Frankfurt, and the Art History and Natural History Museums in Vienna.In June 1993 he completed the Satellite Soundbridge Cologne - Kyoto .
In 1994 Bill Fontana took part in the ZEITGLEICH symposium/exhibtion in Hall in Tirol where he installed "Simultaneous Resonances" - and later the major public art project called "Sound Island" at the Arc du Triomphe.(1994) |