Bill Fontana

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American | 1947

Bill Fontana is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1947.

Where can I see Bill Fontana's works?

Numerous key galleries and museums such as National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts have featured Bill Fontana's work in the past.

Bill Fontana in the news

Bill Fontana has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in May 2025.

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Sound Sculpture with a Sequence of Level Crossings - Bill Fontana

Sound Sculpture with a Sequence of Level Crossings ,1982

By Bill Fontana

Past Exhibitions

Bill Fontana: Liquescent

Haunch of Venison, New York

Midtown | New York | USA

21 Jun, 2012 - 13 Jul, 2012

Four Projects: Doug Argue, Bill Fontana, Alexandra Grant and Les Rogers

Haunch of Venison, New York

Midtown | New York | USA

07 Jul, 2010 - 28 Aug, 2010

Bill Fontana: Sonic Visions

Bitforms Gallery, San Francisco

San Francisco | California | USA

17 Feb, 2022 - 09 Apr, 2022

VIEW 22 EXHIBITIONS

Articles

Of Anarchy in Music: More Journeys in Sound on View at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

ArtDaily 24 May, 2025

The NTMoFA and the Centre Pompidou jointly stage the exhibition 鈥淥f Anarchy in Music: More Journeys in Sound.鈥�

Austrian Town Gets Its Lederhosen in a Twist over Modern Art

The Guardian 29 Aug, 2024

Bad Ischl is the first alpine town to be awarded European capital of culture status, bringing nudity and surreal sculptures to a rural area more in tune with classical music and mountain pursuits

Exhibitions Coming to San Antonio and Austin This Summer

Glasstire 23 Apr, 2023

Making plans for the summer? Consider scoping out these new exhibitions coming to San Antonio and Austin-area institutions, including the San Antonio Museum of Art, the McNay Art Museum, Contemporary at Blue Star, and the Blanton Museum of Art.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Fontana is an artist who 鈥渃aptures the sound of things鈥�, as he likes to say... 鈥�
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Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT)

鈥� ..Fontana will be using these devices and microphones to create an immersive sonic experience comprised of ambient noises... 鈥�
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BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

鈥� ..Fontana mixed the sound of the bells with a digital musical composition, which multiplied each tick of the clock and stroke of the bell... 鈥�
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Rijksmuseum Twenthe

鈥� ..While Fontana's past collaborations with SFMOMA relocated environmental sounds from the regional landscape, this new work creates a live composition generated by the building itself... 鈥�
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SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

鈥� ..Fontana uses highly technical processes of recording living sounds to heighten our awareness of our surroundings and the architecture of space... 鈥�
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Haunch of Venison, New York