studio: Austin, TX 78723 • meza.work2@gmail.com
gallery: Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston
films available from:
New American Cinema Group/Filmmakers' Cooperative, New York
VISIONS, Mexico City
books: Les presses du réel, Dijon
instagram: @abinadi_meza
Bio
Abinadi Meza is a Latinx-Indigenous artist and filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. He studied art, creative writing, and architecture; he primarily makes film/video, sound art, and paintings. Meza's work seeks to create "other spaces" for viewers or listeners to inhabit, with a focus on transformation, spatial politics, multiplicities, and poetics.
Meza teaches in the Interdisciplinary Practices & Emerging Forms MFA program at the School of Art, Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts, University of Houston.
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; Flatpack Festival, Birmingham; 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 Arts & Design, New York; 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; Salt Lake City Film Festival; Sonorities Festival, Belfast; Taos Center for the Arts; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Vastlab Experimental, Los Angeles; Wave Farm, New York; and Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, among other places.
Awards/Residencies
2023 Wave Farm, Artist in residence, New York
2017-20 French American Cultural Exchange Foundation, New York
2014-15 Rome Prize in Visual Art, American Academy in Rome
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
Selected Recent Press
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