studio: Austin, TX 78723 • studio@meza.work 

instagram: @abinadi_meza


films: 

New American Cinema Group/The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York

Letterboxed


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 moving image, sound, performance, and installation. Meza's work has been presented at Anthology Film Archives, New York; Athens International Film & Video Festival; Sonorities Festival, Belfast; Bogotá Experimental Film Festival; Brooklyn Film Festival; 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; 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; Proyector, Madrid; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis among other places. Meza graduated from SCI-Arc, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Los Angeles) in 2009, and the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) in 2004. In 2014 he was awarded a Rome Prize in Visual Art by the American Academy in Rome.

Public Collections/Archives

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Rhizome Artbase, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

SF Cinematheque, 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