SELECTED AWARDS / HONORS / RESIDENCIES
2024 | Lighton International Artists Exchange Program Award 2024 | Saltonstall Residency, Ithaca, NY
2024 | Virginia Center for Creative Arts Residency, Amherst, VA
2023 | LMCC Art Center Residency (Fall Session), Governor’s Island, NY
2023 | Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest, Quarterfinalist
2023 | DVAA Individual Artist Development Grant, Narrowsburg, NY
2023 | Peabody Award, We’re Here Season 3, HBO
2020 | Princess Grace Awards, Artist Development Grant, NY
2013 | \aut\FILM Award for Best LGBT Film, The Evil Eyes, 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI
2006 | Binger Institute, Screenwriting Residency, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004 | Best Feature ("Certain Women"), Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
2002 | Top Videos of 2002 ("One Mile Per Minute"), Film Comment Magazine, NY
2001 | 2001 Princess Grace Film Fellowship New York, NY
2024 | Lighton International Artists Exchange Program Award 2024 | Saltonstall Residency, Ithaca, NY
2024 | Virginia Center for Creative Arts Residency, Amherst, VA
2023 | LMCC Art Center Residency (Fall Session), Governor’s Island, NY
2023 | Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest, Quarterfinalist
2023 | DVAA Individual Artist Development Grant, Narrowsburg, NY
2023 | Peabody Award, We’re Here Season 3, HBO
2020 | Princess Grace Awards, Artist Development Grant, NY
2013 | \aut\FILM Award for Best LGBT Film, The Evil Eyes, 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI
2006 | Binger Institute, Screenwriting Residency, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004 | Best Feature ("Certain Women"), Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
2002 | Top Videos of 2002 ("One Mile Per Minute"), Film Comment Magazine, NY
2001 | 2001 Princess Grace Film Fellowship New York, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/PRESENTATIONS
2024 | Extra Tasty, International Objects, Brooklyn, NY | group show
2024 | Lift & Drag, Stephen Street Gallery | group show
2024 | 2024 Works on Paper, LBIG, NJ [Curated by Kim Conaty] | group show 2023 | Call Me By My Name, The Yard, Brooklyn, NY | group show
2022 | 44th Annual Small Works Exhibition, Harper College, Palatine, IL | group show 2022 | PRIDE, Lycoming College, PA | group show
2022 | Artbook at MoMA PS1, Queens, NY | Outsider Tarot
2022 | MOCA, North Miami, FL | artist talk, Outsider Tarot
2020 | Whitney Museum, NY, NY | artist talk, Outsider Tarot
2019 | Participant, INC. NY, NY | Artist talk / artist talk, Outsider Tarot 2016 | La Mamma Galleria, 37 X 17. NYC | group show 2013 | Art In General, New York, NY | performance / New Sound Karaoke 2006 | Art In General, Transitional Objects, NYC | group show 2006 | Canada Gallery, NYC | group show 2005 | Emerging Artists, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN | group show
2004 | Art Basel Miami, Ambrosino Gallery | group show 2004 | Exit Art, "Other America", New York, NY | group show 2002 | I.C.A, "American Landscape: Discordant Views'", Palm Beach, FL | group show SELECTED SCREENINGS
2024 | Extra Tasty, International Objects, Brooklyn, NY | group show
2024 | Lift & Drag, Stephen Street Gallery | group show
2024 | 2024 Works on Paper, LBIG, NJ [Curated by Kim Conaty] | group show 2023 | Call Me By My Name, The Yard, Brooklyn, NY | group show
2022 | 44th Annual Small Works Exhibition, Harper College, Palatine, IL | group show 2022 | PRIDE, Lycoming College, PA | group show
2022 | Artbook at MoMA PS1, Queens, NY | Outsider Tarot
2022 | MOCA, North Miami, FL | artist talk, Outsider Tarot
2020 | Whitney Museum, NY, NY | artist talk, Outsider Tarot
2019 | Participant, INC. NY, NY | Artist talk / artist talk, Outsider Tarot 2016 | La Mamma Galleria, 37 X 17. NYC | group show 2013 | Art In General, New York, NY | performance / New Sound Karaoke 2006 | Art In General, Transitional Objects, NYC | group show 2006 | Canada Gallery, NYC | group show 2005 | Emerging Artists, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN | group show
2004 | Art Basel Miami, Ambrosino Gallery | group show 2004 | Exit Art, "Other America", New York, NY | group show 2002 | I.C.A, "American Landscape: Discordant Views'", Palm Beach, FL | group show SELECTED SCREENINGS
2023 | 100 years of Surrealism, New Museum of Networked Art, Torrance, CA
2023 | 100 years of Surrealism, Alphabet Art Center, Cologne, DE
2023 | L’image des plaisirs, Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France
2023 | Alphabet Art Center, 100 years of Surrealism, Cologne, Germany
2019 | Cloud.Love, DAM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018 | Gowanus Experimental Film Festival, Brooklyn
2017 | George William Price, Acting Up, London, UK
2016 | Fring! Queer Art Film Festival, London, UK
2017 | Jiha Kim, Off and Free Film Festival, South Korea
2015 | 50th New York Film Festival, Views of the Avant-Garde, NYC
2015 | Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen Germany
2014 | Bergen National Academy for the Arts, Norway
2013 | Impact Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
2013 | 48th and 49th New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC
2011 | International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2010 | New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC
2006 | Images Festival, Toronto, Canada 2006 | New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC
2005 | Museum of Modern Art, MediaScope, NYC | feature screening 2005 | International Film Festival Rotterdam, Official Selection, Netherlands | feature screening
2005 | European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
2005 | Guggenheim, Zenebi, Bilbao, Spain | feature screening
2005 | New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC 2004 | New York Underground Film Festival, NYC | opening night feature
2004 | Outfest, Platinum Shorts, Los Angeles, CA
2004 | New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC
2004 | VideoEx, Zurich, Switzerland
2004 | Rome Film Festival, Rome, Italy | feature screening
2004 | Cinema Invisivel, Portugal | feature screening
2003 | San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA | solo show
2004 | New York Video Festival, New York
2003 | New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC
2001 | New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC | Group Exhibition
2023 | 100 years of Surrealism, Alphabet Art Center, Cologne, DE
2023 | L’image des plaisirs, Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France
2023 | Alphabet Art Center, 100 years of Surrealism, Cologne, Germany
2019 | Cloud.Love, DAM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018 | Gowanus Experimental Film Festival, Brooklyn
2017 | George William Price, Acting Up, London, UK
2016 | Fring! Queer Art Film Festival, London, UK
2017 | Jiha Kim, Off and Free Film Festival, South Korea
2015 | 50th New York Film Festival, Views of the Avant-Garde, NYC
2015 | Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen Germany
2014 | Bergen National Academy for the Arts, Norway
2013 | Impact Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
2013 | 48th and 49th New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC
2011 | International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2010 | New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC
2006 | Images Festival, Toronto, Canada 2006 | New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC
2005 | Museum of Modern Art, MediaScope, NYC | feature screening 2005 | International Film Festival Rotterdam, Official Selection, Netherlands | feature screening
2005 | European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
2005 | Guggenheim, Zenebi, Bilbao, Spain | feature screening
2005 | New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC 2004 | New York Underground Film Festival, NYC | opening night feature
2004 | Outfest, Platinum Shorts, Los Angeles, CA
2004 | New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC
2004 | VideoEx, Zurich, Switzerland
2004 | Rome Film Festival, Rome, Italy | feature screening
2004 | Cinema Invisivel, Portugal | feature screening
2003 | San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA | solo show
2004 | New York Video Festival, New York
2003 | New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC
2001 | New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, NYC | Group Exhibition
SELECTED PRESS / INTERVIEWS
12.2022 | The Selection Committee with Bobby Abate, Podcast Interview by Nate Heiges
06.2022 | Sabrina Artel’s Trailer Talk, Interview for WJFF Radio, 2022
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
02.2015 | “The Tanti Man, Memories of a Sexy Gay Summer”, Tim Isaac, Big Gay Picture Show
09.2018 | "A Boston Art Scene Transformed by Subversion”, Cat McQuaid, Boston Globe
07.2015 | “Monobrow VHS 1”, a VHS publication by Julian Glander and Kevvy Metal
02.2015 | “Views from the Avant-Garde”, Uncredited, Our Town
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
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
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 | “Certain Women Review”, 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
01.2022 | "Certain Women: Women's Studies" Michelle Handelman, Filmmaker Magazine, Winter Issue
09.2022 | “True Video”, Douglas Singleton, DispactkéFilm
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 of the Avant-Garde" Brian Frye, Filmmaker
11.2000 | "Children, Nature, Fragmentation" Craig J. Fischer, Flicker
11.2000 | "NYFF: Views of the Avant-Garde" Kristen M. Jones, Film Comment
10.2000 | "Original Sins and Future Shock" Amy Taubin, The Village Voice
10.2000 | "Views of the Avant-Garde" Ed Halter, The New York Press
06.2022 | Sabrina Artel’s Trailer Talk, Interview for WJFF Radio, 2022
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
02.2015 | “The Tanti Man, Memories of a Sexy Gay Summer”, Tim Isaac, Big Gay Picture Show
09.2018 | "A Boston Art Scene Transformed by Subversion”, Cat McQuaid, Boston Globe
07.2015 | “Monobrow VHS 1”, a VHS publication by Julian Glander and Kevvy Metal
02.2015 | “Views from the Avant-Garde”, Uncredited, Our Town
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
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
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 | “Certain Women Review”, 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
01.2022 | "Certain Women: Women's Studies" Michelle Handelman, Filmmaker Magazine, Winter Issue
09.2022 | “True Video”, Douglas Singleton, DispactkéFilm
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 of the Avant-Garde" Brian Frye, Filmmaker
11.2000 | "Children, Nature, Fragmentation" Craig J. Fischer, Flicker
11.2000 | "NYFF: Views of the Avant-Garde" Kristen M. Jones, Film Comment
10.2000 | "Original Sins and Future Shock" Amy Taubin, The Village Voice
10.2000 | "Views of the Avant-Garde" Ed Halter, The New York Press
EDUCATION & TEACHING
Adjunct Professor, New School, Media Studies Graduate Program
Screenwriting Program | Binger Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
MFA Filmmaking | Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
BFA Sculpture/Studio for Interrelated Media | MassArt, Boston, MA
Screenwriting Program | Binger Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
MFA Filmmaking | Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
BFA Sculpture/Studio for Interrelated Media | MassArt, Boston, MA