studio: Austin, TX 78723 • meza.work2@gmail.com
instagram: @abinadi_meza
artworks available:
4411 Montrose Boulevard Suite D
Houston, Texas 77006
films available:
New American Cinema Group/Filmmakers' Cooperative, New York
VISIONS, Mexico City
books: Les presses du réel, Dijon
Abinadi Meza at Wave Farm, NY. ©Lucy Bohnsack, 2023
Bio
Abinadi Meza is a Latinx-Indigenous sound artist and experimental filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. He studied art, creative writing, and architecture; he primarily makes film/video, sound art, and live performances. Meza's work seeks to create "other spaces" for viewers or listeners to inhabit.
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 films, installations and performances have been presented at: Anthology Film Archives, New York; Antimatter, Victoria BC; Blaffer Art Museum, Houston; Bogotá Experimental Film Festival; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Crossroads Festival, San Francisco; Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro; Helicotrema Festival, Venice; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Lisbon Architecture Triennale; LTK4, Cologne; MAXXI, Rome; Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin; Museum of Arts & Design, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara; New Orleans Film Festival; Radio Amnion, London; Radiophrenia, Glasgow; Radius FM, Chicago; Sonorities Festival, Belfast; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Wave Farm, New York; and Wexner Center for the Arts, Cleveland 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
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