studio: Austin, TX 78723 meza.work2@gmail.com 

gallery: Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston


films available from: 

New American Cinema Group/Filmmakers' Cooperative, New York

VISIONS, Mexico City


books: Les presses du réel, Dijon

instagram: @abinadi_meza


Bio

Abinadi Meza is a Latinx-Indigenous artist and filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. He studied art, creative writing, and architecture; he primarily makes film/video, sound art, and paintings. Meza's work seeks to create "other spaces" for viewers or listeners to inhabit, with a focus on transformation, spatial politics, multiplicities, and poetics. 

Meza 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; 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 Arts & Design, New York; 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; Vastlab Experimental, Los Angeles; Wave Farm, New York; and Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, 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