studio: Austin, TX 78723| 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
ig: @abinadi_meza
Bio
Abinadi Meza is a Latinx-Indigenous artist and filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. Meza studied art, creative writing, and architecture; he primarily makes experimental films, sound works, and installations. Meza's works seek to create "other" spaces for viewers/listeners to inhabit, with a focus on alterity, spatial politics, and poetics. His works often use transitory or precarious materials - found footage, hand-painted film, field recordings, radio waves, glass.
Meza's award-winning work has been presented widely, including 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 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; 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
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