studio: Austin, Texas 78702 • studio@meza.work
instagram: @abinadi_meza
films:
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York
books: Les presses du réel, Dijon, France
studio: Austin, Texas 78702 • studio@meza.work
instagram: @abinadi_meza
films:
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York
books: Les presses du réel, Dijon, France
Abinadi Meza (US/MX) is a Latinx-Indigenous (Otomí) artist whose practice encompasses experimental film, sound, writing, performance, and installation. Informed by training in both art and architecture, Meza creates multisensory works that explore the intersection of spatial poetics, cultural memory, and embodied perception. He deconstructs cinema into a porous space where re-collection and materiality converge - a space of tactility, acoustic texture, and the emergence of alien, archetypal, or charged visual objects.
Meza’s work has been presented widely, in spaces including: Aesthetica Film Festival (UK), American Academy in Rome, Anthology Film Archives (New York), Athens International Film + Video Festival, Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Cineteca Nacional de México (Mexico City), Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador (Quito), Crossroads Festival (San Francisco), Engauge Experimental Film Festival (Seattle), FACT Liverpool, Festival ECRÃ (Rio de Janeiro), Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), Lisbon Architecture Triennale, MAXXI (Rome), New Orleans Film Festival, Proyector (Madrid), Kassel Dokfest (Germany), Public Art Fund (New York), and Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), among many others.
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
2024
Interbay Cinema Society, Seattle
National Association of Latinx Arts & Cultures, San Antonio
2023
Wave Farm, New York
2017-20
Albertine/FACE Foundation, New York
2014-15
Rome Prize in Visual Art, American Academy in Rome
2013
ACRE, Chicago
Signal Fire, Portland
2010
Medialab-Matadero, 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, Dublin
2004
MCAD + Jerome Foundation, New York/St. Paul
ES "Sunspots y Eyes Break into a Thousand Lights" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
EN "Beacon: Epistomologies of the Art Object" - Jane Blocker, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism (PDF via UC Press)
EN "Texas Never Whispers: Watery, Domestic" - Ronnie Yates, Glasstire
EN "Signs of Dallas, Streams of Houston: Recent exhibitions in Texas" - William Sarradet, Glasstire
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