ig: @abinadi_meza
studio: meza.work2@gmail.com
gallery: Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston
films: New American Cinema Group/The Filmmakers' Cooperative, New York
books: Les presses du réel, Dijon
Bio
Abinadi Meza is a Latinx-Indigenous artist and filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. Meza studied art, creative writing, and architecture; he makes experimental films, sound art, pirate radio, paintings/drawings, and installations.
Meza's work has been presented at Anthology Film Archives, New York; Athens International Film & Video Festival; Atlanta Film Festival; Aurora Picture Show, Houston; Blaffer Art Museum, Houston; Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio; Bogotá Experimental Film Festival; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill; Crossroads Festival, San Francisco; Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art, Toronto; Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro; Ende Tymes Festival of Noise & Experimental Liberation, New York; Filmmaker's Cooperative, New York; Helicotrema Festival, Venice; Houston Cinema Arts Festival; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Lisbon Architecture Triennale; Matadero, Madrid; Loisaida Cortos Film Festival, New York; MAXXI, Rome; Mexic-arte Museum, Austin; Mientras Tanto Cine, Montevideo; Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara; Museum of Arts & Design, New York; non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Taipei; Radio Amnion, London; Radio Kinesonus, Tokyo; Radiophrenia, Glasgow; Radius FM, Chicago; Sonorities Festival, Belfast; Taos Center for the Arts; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Wave Farm, New York; and Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, among other places.
Awards/Residencies
2017-20 French-American Cultural Exchange Foundation, New York
2014-15 Rome Prize in Visual Art, American Academy in Rome, Rome/New York
2013 ACRE, Artist in residence, Chicago
2013 Signal Fire, Artist in residence, Portland
2010 MACBA, Researcher in residence, Barcelona
2009 National Association of Latinx Arts & Culture, San Antonio
2008 Jerome Foundation, New York/St. Paul
2007 Tanne Foundation, Boston
2007 National Association of Latinx Arts & Culture, San Antonio
2006 Jerome Foundation, New York/St. Paul
2005 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Artist in residence, Dublin
2004 Jerome Foundation, New York/St. Paul
Press
EN The Political Component of Noise in the Artistic Practices of the Last Century, Elena Abbiatici, Arshake
EN The Leftovers: Nine Experimental Films to Watch For, Michael Sicinski, MUBI
EN Interview, Elena Abbiatici, Arshake
IT 16 film in conocorso, Ordet
ES CROSSROADS 2022. PROGRAMA ONLINE ECHO 2, Mónica Delgado, desistfilm