Abinadi Meza

Abinadi Meza (born 1977 in Austin, Texas) is an American visual artist, sound artist, and experimental filmmaker whose works seek to create "other spaces" for viewers or listeners to inhabit, with a focus on transformation, spatial politics, and poetics. [1] His films, sound art, performances, and installations have been presented at venues across North America, South America and Europe,[2] including Anthology Film Archives, New York; MAXXI, Rome, Italy; Institute of Contemporary Arts, Dunaújváros, Hungary; FILE Festival, São Paulo, Brazil; Crossroads Festival, SF Cinematheque; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Antimatter, Victoria BC; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; FACT, Liverpool; La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin; and Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Portugal. Meza uses ephemeral, precarious, or site-relational materials such as glass, radio waves, text, found footage, and salvaged materials to create transformative spaces or objects, and explore relationships regarding individuals and social context. As a young artist Meza studied Butoh with master teachers from Japan, Europe and South America.[3] Later he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls (1999); a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (2004); and a Master of Architecture degree from SCI-Arc, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles (2009).

Sound artist Abinadi Meza performing at Sinel de Cordes Palace, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, 2013

Sound performance, Austin, Texas (USA) 2012

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.[4] In 2021 his book Manual For a Future Desert was published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, Italy. [5]