Resumé

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (2006/2007 coming soon)
2005	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 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, MA Bad Girls Studio, Boston, MA New Film, Collective Unconscious, New York City, NY
1998	Filmmakers Take Over: Part 2 , Jacque's Cabaret, Boston, MA Open 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 REVIEWS & ARTICLES
2004	"Some Women" Amy Taubin, Film Comment, May "Been Underground So Long" Ionnis Mookas, Senses of Cinema, April "Certain Women" Jay Weisserberg, Variety, February
2003	"Final Cut 2002" Film Comment, "One Mile Per Minute" listed as one of the top videos of 2002 "Personal Psychodramas: SF Cinematheque presents Bobby Abate" Gary Morris, Bay Area Reporter, March "Download Down Low: Abate looks at Real Player and Surreal Prayers" Rus Huston, San Francisco Bay Guardian, February
2002	"The Art of Gaming" Ed Halter, Shout Magazine, 2002 "Certain Women: Women's Studies" Michelle Handelman, Filmmaker Magazine, Winter Issue
2001	"The Year in Avant-Garde Film and Video" Ed Halter, The Village Voice, January 2002 "New York Underground Film Festival" Brian Baimbridge, Res Magazine, June "Surreal Endgames, Seedy Glamour: The NYUFF" Dennis Lim, The Village Voice, March "Views of the Avante-Garde" Brian Frye, Filmmaker, January
2000	"Children, Nature, Fragmentation" Craig J. Fischer, Flicker, November "NYFF: Views of the Avant-Garde" Kristen M. Jones, Film Comment, November "Original Sins and Future Shock" Amy Taubin, The Village Voice, October 10 "Views of the Avant-Garde" Ed Halter, The New York Press, October 4 "NYFF" Brian Frye, Indiewire, October

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Pres.	The New School University , New York, NY Part time graduate faculty, Media Studies Classes: Digital Video (Avid & Final Cut Pro), Digital Design Sharp Entertainment, New York, NY Freelance Avid Editor VH1's 100 Greatest Red Carpet Moments, Fab Life, Fantabulous Edgeworx, New York, NY Freelance Final Cut/Avid Editor Saturday Night Live, A&E, Amex, etc. For The Love of Dolly Editor, Final Cut Feature Length Documentary produced by Tai Uhlman following several of Dolly Parton's Fans Eyeboogie, New York, NY Freelance Final Cut/Avid Editor US Magazine interstitials


AWARDS / NOTICES
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, MassArt
1990	Marie Walshe Art Foundation Summer Studios, Colorado
1984	Last Place Loser, Hamden Bowling Lanes, Hamden, CT

EDUCATION
2001	MFA, Bard College, Annandale, NY
1997	BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA