studio: Austin, TX 78723 • studio@meza.work
instagram: @abinadi_meza
films:
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative/New American Cinema Group, New York
books: Les presses du réel, Dijon, France
Bio
Abinadi Meza (US/MX) is a Latinx-Indigenous (Otomí) artist primarily working with sound, moving image, performance, and installation to create environments where perception and memory become tactile and vivid. He has performed, exhibited and screened work at: Anthology Film Archives, New York; Bogotá Experimental Film Festival; Brooklyn Film Festival; Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, Quito; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Centro di Ricerche Musicali, Rome; Cineteca Nacional de México, Mexico City; Crossroads Festival, San Francisco; Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Lisbon Architecture Triennale; MAXXI, Rome; Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin; New Orleans Film Festival; Public Art Fund, New York; Proyector, Madrid; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among other places.
Public Collections/Archives
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Rhizome Artbase, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
SF Cinematheque Archive, San Francisco
Sound Art Museum, Rome
Wave Farm Transmission Art Archive, New York
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis
Awards/Residencies
2025
We Luv Video, Artist in residence, Austin
2024
Interbay Cinema Society, Seattle
National Association of Latinx Arts & Cultures, San Antonio
2023
Wave Farm, Artist in residence, New York
2017-20
Albertine/FACE Foundation, New York
2014-15
Rome Prize in Visual Art, American Academy in Rome
2013
ACRE, Artist in residence, Chicago
Signal Fire, Artist in residence, Portland
2010
Medialab-Matadero, Artist-in-residence, Madrid
2009
National Association of Latinx Arts & Cultures, San Antonio
2008
Jerome Foundation, New York/St. Paul
2007
Tanne Foundation, Boston
National Association of Latinx Arts & Cultures, San Antonio
2006
Jerome Foundation, New York/St. Paul
2005
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Artist in residence, Dublin
2004
MCAD + Jerome Foundation, New York/St. Paul
Selected Recent Press
ES "Más cables que personas y Aka 赤" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
EN "Light Matter 2024: When Was I & Bajo de superficie" - Michael Sicinski, In Review Online
ES "Todo rostro es una forma que nos mira y Parangolé" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
ES "Conversación con Abinadi Meza" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
ES "No Justice, No Peace, Caixa Preta y Tlaloc (Lines Drawn in Water)" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
ES "Surrounded by Colors We Could No Longer See y Educación perdida" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
EN "Eyeing the bounty of experimental films at CROSSROADS 2023" - Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, 48Hills
IT "Exploring matter - Time Crystals and Tlaloc, a diptych by Abinadi Meza," - Luigi Starace, et al., Ordet
EN Interview, Experimental Brasil
EN Tlaloc: Movie Review - Fabricio Estevam Mira, Experimental Brasil
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
ES "RECUERDO AQUELLOS DÍAS (PUDO HABER SIDO DIFERENTE)" - Pablo Gamba, desistfilm
ES "CROSSROADS 2022. PROGRAMA ONLINE ECHO 2" - Mónica Delgado, desistfilm
IT "16 film in conocorso", Ordet