Abinadi Meza

Abinadi Meza (born 1977 in Austin, Texas) is an American visual artist, sound artist, and experimental filmmaker whose works focus on transformation, spatial politics, and poetics. His films, sound art, performances, and installations have been presented at Anthology Film Archives, New York; Brooklyn Film Festival, New York; MAXXI, Rome; Matadero Madrid; Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, Quito; Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; SF Cinematheque, San Francisco; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; American Academy in Rome; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Blaffer Art Museum, Houston; FACT, Liverpool; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin; New Orleans Film Festival; La Casa Encendida, Madrid, and Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Meza primarily uses ephemeral, precarious, site-specific and salvaged materials in his work. As a young artist Meza studied Butoh with teachers from Japan, Europe and South America. Later he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Northern Iowa,; a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Minnesota (2004); and a Master of Architecture degree from SCI-Arc, the Southern California Institute of Architecture(2009). Meza's family background is Native American, Portuguese, Moroccan, and Russian.

Meza is a professor of Interdisciplinary Practices and Emerging Forms in the School of Art at the University of Houston. In 2014 he was awarded a Rome Prize in Visual Art by the American Academy in Rome. In 2021 his book Manual For a Future Desert was published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, Italy.

Selected filmography

Snow, 2001 All Light is Late, 2001 Sonnambula, 2001 Marco Polo, 2002 The City in Which I Find You, 2002 Double Blind, 2004 The Prisoner, 2005 Seeing is Dreaming, 2006 Silence, 2006 Left Songs, 2006 Beacon, 2007 Sound Sweep, 2009 Like Snow Falling, 2010 News From Home, 2012 Black Box Recorder, 2012 Hour Between Dog and Wolf, 2013 Melencholia, 2013 The Dream Surplus I, 2013 Ghost Station, 2014 Air, Condition, 2014 Hand By Hand, 2015 Nocturne, 2015 The Dream Surplus II, 2017 Monuments in Reverse, 2017 The Dream Surplus III, 2019 Time Crystals, 2021 Surrounded by Colors We Could No Longer See, 2023 Umbrella Music, 2023 Tlaloc (Lines Drawn in Water), 2023 Parangolé, 2023

Selected Sound Performances/Concerts

American Academy in Rome Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art (Toronto) Ende Tymes Festival of Noise & Experimental Liberation (Brooklyn) FILE Festival/Hipersonica (São Paulo) Helicotrema Festival (Italy) Lisbon Architecture Triennale (Portugal) Matadero Madrid MAXXI Muesum (Rome) O' (Milan) Radio Kinesonus (Tokyo) Radiophrenia (Glasgow) Radius FM (Chicago) Scaniaparken (Mälmo) Sonorities Festival (Belfast) Walker Art Center (Minneapolis)