studio: Austin, TX 78723 • studio@meza.work
instagram: @abinadi_meza
films:
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative/New American Cinema Group, New York
books: Les presses du réel, Dijon, France
Bio
Abinadi Meza (US/MX) is a Latinx-Indigenous (Otomí) artist primarily working with sound, moving image, performance, and installation to create environments where perception and memory become tactile and vivid. These experiences are felt as much as they are seen or heard; they involve passage – opening into another space, and inhabitation.
Meza has performed, exhibited and screened work at: Anthology Film Archives, New York; Sonorities Festival, Belfast; Bogotá Experimental Film Festival; Brooklyn Film Festival; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Centro di Ricerche Musicali, Rome; Cineteca Nacional de México, Mexico City; Crossroads Festival, San Francisco; Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro; Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Lisbon Architecture Triennale; MAXXI, Rome; Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin; New Orleans Film Festival; Proyector, Madrid; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis among other places.
Public Collections/Archives
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
Awards/Residencies
2024 Lightpress Grant, Interbay Cinema Society, Seattle
NFA Award, National Association of Latinx Arts & Cultures, San Antonio
2023 Wave Farm, Artist in residence, New York
2017-20 Albertine/FACE Foundation, New York
2014-15 Rome Prize in Visual Art, American Academy in Rome
2013 ACRE, Artist in residence, Chicago
Signal Fire, Artist in residence, Portland
2009 NFA Award, National Association of Latinx Arts & Cultures, San Antonio
2008 Jerome Foundation, New York/St. Paul
2007 Tanne Foundation, Boston
NFA Award, 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 "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