Bobby Abate

Teaching Experience

2025 | Visiting full-time film faculty, Film/Video, MassArt, Boston, MA
2025 | Faculty, BFA Film Program, School of Visual Arts, NYC, NY
2016 | Artist Mentor, MFA Program, Lesley College, Boston, MA
2001–6 | Faculty, Digital Design and Digital Video Editing, Media Studies Graduate Program, New School University, NYC, NY

Selected Awards / Honors / Residencies

2025 | Zaratan Arte Contemporânea Residency, Lisbon, Portugal
2024 | Princess Grace Special Projects Grant, Filmmaking
2024 | Lighton International Artists Exchange Program Grant
2024 | The Saltonstall Foundation Residency, Ithaca, NY
2024 | Virginia Center for Creative Arts Residency, Amherst, VA
2024 | 3rd Place, Works on Paper exhibit curated by Kim Conaty, LBIFF Center
2023 | Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (Outsider Tarot added to permanent collection)
2023 | LMCC Artist Center Residency (Fall), Governor’s Island, NYC
2023 | Harvard Fine Arts Library, Boston, MA (Outsider Tarot added to permanent collection)
2023 | Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest, Quarterfinalist
2023 | DVAA Individual Artist Development Grant
2023 | Peabody Award, We’re Here Season 3, HBO
2020 | Artist Development Grant, Princess Grace Foundation
2013 | \aut\FILM Award for Best LGBT Film, The Evil Eyes, at the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival
2006 | Binger Institute, Screenwriting Residency, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004 | Best Feature, Certain Women, Chicago Underground Film Festival
2002 | Top Video of the year, One Mile Per Minute, Film Comment Magazine
2001 | Princess Grace Award, Filmmaking

Solo Exhibitions

2025 | BIG BAD, DVAA Art Center, Narrowsburg, NY | May 2025

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 | Roots/Wings, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2024 | Extra Taste, International Objects, Brooklyn, NY
2024 | Works on Paper curated by Kim Conaty, LBIF, Long Beach, NJ
2024 | I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like, The Stairwell Space, Bridgeport, CT
2024 | Lift & Drag, Stephen Street Gallery, Ridgewood, NY
2024 | Say It Loud: Unsung Heroes, Culture Lab, Queens, NY
2024 | The Saltonstall Exhibition, The Cherry Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2024 | Pride All Day Every Day, Arts Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2023 | Call Me By My Name, The Yard, Brooklyn, NY
2022 | The Outsider Tarot, Artbook at MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2022 | 44th Annual Small Works Exhibition, Harper College, Palatine, IL
2022 | PRIDE, Lycoming College, PA
2018 | Under a Dismal Boston Skyline, Boston University Fine Arts Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 | 37×17, La Mamma Galleria, NYC, NY
2015 | Art of the Empty Orchestra, USC Vision & Voices, Los Angeles, CA
2012 | Light Show, Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
2006 | Transitional Objects, Art In General, NYC, NY
2005 | State of the Arts: Emerging Artists, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
2004 | Other America, Exit Art, NYC, NY
2002 | American Landscape: Discordant Views, ICA, Palm Beach, FL

Solo Screenings

2012 | Places of Pity, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
2005 | Films by Bobby Abate, CinemaTexas, Austin, TX
2005 | Certain Women, Museum of Modern Art, MediaScope, NYC
2005 | Certain Women, Guggenheim, Zenebi, Bilbao, Spain
2004 | Certain Women, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
2004 | Certain Women, Rome Film Festival, Rome, Italy
2004 | Real Videos, Cinema Invisivel, Portugal
2003 | Bobby Abate, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
2003 | The Stom & Bobby Show, New York Underground Film Festival, NYC, NY
2002 | New Work by Bobby Abate, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Screenings

2025 | Sightlines V, Dixon Place, New York, NY
2024 | Music Videos, Off Kilter Film Festival, Ridgewood, NY
2023 | 100 years of Surrealism, Alphabet Art Center, Cologne, Germany
2023 | L’image des plaisirs, Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France
2021 | Surprises, Chaos Reign, Paris, France
2019 | Cloud.Love, DAM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018 | Dirty Code, Gowanus Experimental Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2016 | Fring! Queer Art Film Festival, London, England
2017 | Jiha Kim, Off and Free Film Festival, South Korea
2014 | The Evil Eyes, Bergen National Academy for the Arts, Norway
2013 | The Evil Eyes, 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI
2013 | The Evil Eyes, Impact Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
2013 | One Secret Destroys Everything, 51st New York Film Festival, Views of the Avant-Garde, NYC, NY
2012 | Atlas Minus…, New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC, NY
2012 | The Beginning of the End, Simultan Festival, Romania
2012 | A Party Record, 58th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
2011 | Bitches Brew, New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC, NY
2010 | Séance, New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC, NY
2010 | Program 7, New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC, NY
2010 | Spectrum Shorts!, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006 | New Sound Karaoke, Canada Gallery, NYC, NY
2006 | Strangers to Strangers, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2006 | Zenith, New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC, NY
2005 | Soothsayer, European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
2005 | Soothsayer, New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC, NY
2005 | As Long As It Takes, IFFR, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2004 | Platinum Shorts, Outfest, Los Angeles, CA
2004 | Soothsayer, New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC, NY
2004 | Dark Futures, VideoEx, Zurich, Switzerland
2002 | What (is) Cinema?, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
2001 | The Zero Order, New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC, NY

Talks & Presentations

2024 | The Ghost Car: A Tarot Ritual, International Objects, Bushwick, NY
2024 | From the Island with Love: Queer Studies, University of Miami, FL
2022 | The Influence of Tarot on Eternal Return & the Obsidian Heart, MOCA, North Miami, FL
2020 | Halloween Tarot Night, Whitney Museum, NYC, NY
2018 | Past & Fortune: cartomancy and political anxiety with Anna Zett, Artist Space Books, NYC, NY

Selected Press/ Interviews

05.2025 | Missives from the Ether: Bobby Abate, Wave Farm Radio
09.2024 | Short film ‘The Ghost at Skeleton Rock’ filmed in Callicoon, Sullivan County Democrat
12.2023 | LGBTQ+ Highlights of the Year, The Queer Review
12.2022 | The Selection Committee with Bobby Abate, Podcast Interview by Nate Heiges
06.2022 | Sabrina Artel’s Trailer Talk, Interview for WJFF Radio
05.2022 | Outsider Tarot with Bobby Abate, In Search of Tarot Podcast
08.2022 | Bobby Abate, Main Street Arts
01.2022 | Your Magic Podcast with Michelle Tea, Spotify
09.2018 | “A Boston Art Scene Transformed by Subversion”, Cat McQuaid, Boston Globe
02.2015 | “The Tanti Man, Memories of a Sexy Gay Summer”, Tim Isaac, Big Gay Picture Show
07.2015 | “Monobrow VHS 1”, a VHS publication by Julian Glander and Kevvy Metal
03.2013 | “Of Comings and Goings, Art and Artists: Galleries”, Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe
06.2012 | “Onion City Film Fest Review”, Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
08.2005 | Short Reviews from Bobby Abate to the Whale Rider, Gary Morris, Bright Lights Film Journal
01.2005 | Wisconsin Film Festival Review, Robert Thomas, Madison Capital Times
01.2005 | “Midnight at the Oasis”, Ioannis Mookas, Senses of Cinema
05.2004 | “Batter Up”, Michelle Weinberg, Miami New Times
05.2004 | “Some Women”, Amy Taubin, Film Comment
04.2004 | “Certain Women: Women’s Studies” Michelle Handelman, Filmmaker Magazine, Winter Issue
02.2004 | “Certain Women”, Jay Weisserberg, Variety
06.2004 | “Moods for Moderns”, Ed Halter, The Village Voice
06.2004 | “SCREENING ROOM; Peckinpah Revisited”, Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times
10.2004 | “Critical Views of our Cultural Terrain“, Marya Summers, Palm Beach Art
09.2004 | “Film Society Seen”, Paolo Volpe, Film Comment
09.2004 | Review “Certain Women”, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
08.2004 | “Highlight of the Week” Nancy Maes and Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
03.2003 | “Final Cut 2002” Film Comment, “One Mile Per Minute” Top Videos of 2002
02.2003 | “Abate looks at Real Player and Surreal Prayers” Rus Huston, SF Bay Guardian
07.2002 | “New Videos Resonate Darkly”, A.O. Scott, New York Times
01.2002 | “The Art of Gaming” Ed Halter, Shout Magazine
09.2002 | “True Video”, Douglas Singleton, Dispactké Film
10.2022 | “The Zero Order: Film and Video by Bobby Abate”, Patrick Friel, The Chicago Reader
01.2001 | “The Year in Avant-Garde Film and Video” Ed Halter, The Village Voice
06.2001 | “New York Underground Film Festival” Brian Baimbridge, Res Magazine
03.2001 | “Surreal Endgames, Seedy Glamour: The NYUFF” Dennis Lim, The Village Voice
02.2001 | “Telling It, Differently”, Pacific Film Archives
01.2001 | “Views from the Avant-Garde” Brian Frye, Filmmaker
11.2000 | “Children, Nature, Fragmentation” Craig J. Fischer, Flicker
11.2000 | “NYFF: Views from the Avant-Garde” Kristen M. Jones, Film Comment
10.2000 | “Original Sins and Future Shock” Amy Taubin, The Village Voice
10.2000 | “Views from the Avant-Garde” Ed Halter, The New York Press