studio: Austin, Texas 78702 • studio@meza.work
instagram: @abinadi_meza
films:
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York
books: Les presses du réel, Dijon, France
This site is not comprehensive, it focuses only on new and most recent works. Please contact for further info.
Abinadi Meza (US/MX) is a Latinx-Indigenous (Otomí) artist whose practice encompasses experimental film, sound, performance, and installation. Informed by training in both art and architecture, Meza creates multisensory works that explore the porous space where perception and materiality converge.
Meza’s award-winning work has been presented widely, in spaces including: American Academy in Rome; MAXXI (Rome); Walker Art Center (Minneapolis); Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus); Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin); La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Matadero (Madrid), Public Art Fund (New York); FACT Liverpool; Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin); Blaffer Art Museum (Houston); Abrons Art Center (New York); Museum of Contemporary Art (Santa Barbara); Kassel Dokfest (Germany); Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival; New Orleans Film Festival; Brooklyn Film Festival; Athens International Film + Video Festival; Crossroads Festival (San Francisco); Aesthetica Film Festival (UK); Antimatter (Victoria BC); Festival ECRÃ (Rio de Janeiro); Bogotá Experimental Film Festival; Vastlab Experimental (Los Angeles); Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque); Other Cinema (San Francisco); Helicotrema (Venice); Lisbon Architecture Triennale; Centro di Ricerche Musicali (Rome); MA/IN Festival (Matera, Italy); Radius (Chicago); Radio Amnion (London); LTK4 (Cologne); Radiophrenia (Glasgow); Sonorities Festival (Belfast); Anthology Film Archives (New York); Cineteca Nacional de México (Mexico City); and Kino Palais (Buenos Aires), among many others.
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