studio: Austin, TX 78723 • studio@meza.work
instagram: @abinadi_meza
films:
New American Cinema Group/The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York
VISIONS, Mexico City
books: Les presses du réel, Dijon, France
Bio
Abinadi Meza is a Latinx-Indigenous artist based in Austin, Texas; he works across media with a focus on experimental film, sound art, performance, and installation.
Meza graduated from SCI-Arc, the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles in 2009, and the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2004. He 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; Bogotá Experimental Film Festival; Brooklyn Film Festival; Cineteca Nacional de México, Mexico City; Crossroads Festival, San Francisco; Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro; Festival Proyector, Madrid; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Kassel Dokfest, Germany; Light Matter, New York; Lisbon Architecture Triennale; MAXXI, Rome; Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara; New Orleans Film Festival; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis among other places.
Awards/Residencies
2024 National Association of Latinx Arts & Cultures, San Antonio
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 & Cultures, San Antonio
2008 Jerome Foundation, New York/St. Paul
2007 Tanne Foundation, Boston
2007 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 Jerome Foundation, New York/St. Paul
Selected Recent Press
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