BOBBY ABATE, born in New Haven in 1973, came of age in a digital underground charged by fantasy, role-play and vice - dynamics that shaped his darkly humorous works in film, video, and animation. He is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008-2009
New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant Garde, NYC (Group Screening)
Art In General, Transitional Objects, NYC (Group Screening)
Canada Gallery, NYC (Group Screening)
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX
Austin Film Society, Texas (Group Screening)
U.S. Express - Early 21st Century Video Art - Compilation DVD
Gallery 210, St. Louis, Missouri
Images Festival, Toronto, Canada (Group Screening)
2005-2007
New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant Garde, NYC (Group Screening)
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany (Group Show)
Cheekwood Museum of Art, State of the Art: Emerging Video Artists, Nashville, TN (Group Show)
Exit Art, "Other America",New York, NY (Group Show)
Outfest, Platinum Shorts, Los Angeles, CA, (Group Screening)
Animatter, Victoria, BC, (Group Screening)
VideoEx, Zurich, Switzerland (Group Screening)
Cinema Invisivel, Portugal, (Solo Screening)
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands (Group Screening)
SF Indie Fest, San Francisco, CA (Group Screening)
Images Festival, Toronto, Canada (Group Screening)
Ambrosino Gallery, "Soothsayer", Miami, FL (Solo Show)
Mix Festival, NYC (Group Screening)
Palm Beach 3 Contemporary Art Sofa, Palm Beach, FL (Group Show)
Lower West Side Film Festival, NYC (Group Screening)
New York Underground Film Festival, NYC (Group Screening)
2004
Museum of Modern Art, MediaScope, NYC (Feature Screening)
Guggenheim, Zenebi, Bilbao, Spain (Feature Screening)
Art Basel, Miami, FL (Group Show)
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Offical Selection, Netherlands (Solo Screening)
I.C.A, "American Landscape: Discordant Views'", Palm Beach, FL (Group Show)
Rome Film Festival, Rome, Italy (Feature Screening)
Ambrosino Gallery, "Cakewalk", Miami, FL (Group Show)
New York Video Festival, NYC (Group Screening)
New York Underground Film Festival, NYC (Feature Screening, Opening Night)
Red Cat, Cal Arts, CA (Feature Screening)
Outfest, Los Angeles, CA (Group Screening)
CinemaTexas, Austin, TX (Feature Screening, Group Screening)
Milan Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Italy (Group Screening)
Dallas Video Festival, TX (Group Screening, Feature Screening)
Mix Mexico, Mexico (Group Screening)
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL (Feature Screening, Best Feature)
2003
ICA, London (Group Screening)
Moscow International Film Festival, Russia (Group Screening)
Dallas Video Festival, TX (Group Screening)
Version03, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, IL (Group Screening)
San Francisco Cinematheque (solo screening), San Francisco, CA (Solo Screening)
The New York Underground Film Festival, New York City, NY (Group Screening)
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (Group Screening)
San Francisco Indie Fest, San Francisco, CA (Group Screening)
Graz 2003, Austria (Group Screening)
Hong Kong Film Archive, China (Group Screening)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (Solo Screening)
Iranian Young Cinema Society, Iran (Group Screening)
2002
The New York Video Festival, New York, NY (Group Screening)
Vidarte, Mexico (Group Screening)
CinemaTexas, Austin, TX (Group Screening)
The Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL (Group Screening)
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, VersionFest, Chicago, IL (Group Screening)
Image Forum, Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, & Fukuoka, Japan (Group Screening)
The New York Unerground Film Festival, New York, NY (Group Screening)
ATA, San Francisco, CA (Group Screening)
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands (Group Screening)
Pacific Film ArchivesBerkeley, CA (Group Screening)
Mix express Festival New York, NY
BAM Rose Cinemas, Brooklyn, NY (Group Screening)
2001
The New York Underground Film Festival, "The Stom & Bobby Show", NY, NY (Group Screening)
The Lux Center, "Selections from the NYUFF", London, England (Group Screening)
Chicago Filmmakers, "The Zero Order", Chicago, IL (Group Screening)
Milwaukee Film Center, "The Zero Order"Milwaukee, WI (Group Screening)
Occularis, "Star Struck"Brooklyn, NY (Group Screening)
Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA (Group Screening)
Outfest, Los Angeles, CA (Group Screening)
SEXperimental, New York, NY (Group Screening)
MIX Festival Opening Night, New York, NY (Group Screening)
Portland International Film and Video Festival, Portland, OR (Group Screening)
ATA, San Francisco, NY (Group Screening)
CinemaTexas International Competition, Austin, TX (Group Screening)
2000
The 38th Annual New York Film Festival, "Beneath the Second Hand", Lincoln Center, NYC
The 3rd Sexers, Mix Festival, NYC (NOV)
Gash, Occularis, Williamsburg, NYC
1999
Filmmakers Take Over: Part 3, The Milky Way, Boston, MABad Girls Studio, Boston, MA
New Film, Collective Unconscious, New York City, NY
1998
Filmmakers Take Over: Part 2 , Jacque's Cabaret, Boston, MAOpen Faucet Productions, Actors Workshop, Boston, MA
Filmmakers Take Over: Part 1, Jacque's Cabaret, Boston, MA
1997
WhitneyBound, Mobius Center for Experimental Artwork, Boston, MA
Ruby Slipper Productions, The Middle East, Boston, MA
Scamp, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Thethuthenang, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1996
Plump Vision: Film and Video, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
SELECTED AWARDS / NOTICES
2005-9
Binger Film Lab : Script Development Program, Amsterdam, NL
Berlinale Talent Project Market Selection, Berlin, DE
2004
Best Festure ("Certain Women"), Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Finalist: Creative Capital Grant, New York, NY
2002
Top Videos of 2002 ("One Mile Per Minute"), Film Comment Magazine, NY
2001
2001 Princess Grace Film Fellowship «PGA website», New York, NY
Milton Avery Fellowship, Annandale, NY
Take 2 Critic's Poll, Top Avant Garde film/video work of 2001 ("Real Videos"), Village Voice, NY
1997
Pace Gallery Award, Boston, MA
1996
Gallery 70 Fellowship, Boston Artists' Foundation Grant
1996
Trust Fund Scholarship, Dep't of Media/Performing Arts, MassArt
1995
Trust Fund Scholarship, Dep't of Sculpture, MassArt1990
Marie Walshe Art Foundation Summer Studios, Colorado1984
Last Place Loser, Hamden Bowling Lanes, Hamden, CT