About
Zacarías González is transdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in NYC. Whose participatory practice uses food as a container for collective inquiry, collaborative authorship, and the building of networks of care. Working at the intersection of documentary, participatory art, and pedagogical resistance, González creates conditions for gathering and relationality that emerge through shared space, communal eating, and learning together.
Their work centers on long-term projects: 吃了吗 | Have you eaten? with migrant sex workers; "The Future of Food" with Creative Time; EARTH LIFE at the Institute for Public Architecture; and auxilio space, a community-based food center supporting queer, Black, trans, and Indigenous communities and individuals living with HIV/AIDS.
In their ongoing project "Carry," González uses deployable mobile structures — kitchen carts and garden carts designed in collaboration with Chong Gu for public space activation. These objects function as tools, sites of pedagogy, and performance, becoming part of the work itself rather than merely supporting it. By extending communal practice into public spaces, the work resists permanence.
With an MFA from Hunter College and a BA in Design and Social Context from UdK Berlin, projects engage with agroecology, public architecture, and public health prioritizing sustained engagement over extractive encounters. Learning becomes dialogue and collective exploration, drawn to collective inquiry.
They have previously been a visiting lecturer at The School of Visual Arts and New School University Eugene Lang College and serve on the board of directors for The Filmmaker’s Cooperative.
Recent collaborations with:
Red Canary Song, The Filmmaker’s Cooperative
The Institute for Public Architecture, Deli Radio, KERMESSE and Galerie Derouillon, Creative Time, The Storefront for Art and Architecture, MoMa PS1, Pioneer Works, Recess Art, Socrates Sculpture Park
hola@zacariasgonzalez.com
Zacarías González is transdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in NYC. Whose participatory practice uses food as a container for collective inquiry, collaborative authorship, and the building of networks of care. Working at the intersection of documentary, participatory art, and pedagogical resistance, González creates conditions for gathering and relationality that emerge through shared space, communal eating, and learning together.
Their work centers on long-term projects: 吃了吗 | Have you eaten? with migrant sex workers; "The Future of Food" with Creative Time; EARTH LIFE at the Institute for Public Architecture; and auxilio space, a community-based food center supporting queer, Black, trans, and Indigenous communities and individuals living with HIV/AIDS.
In their ongoing project "Carry," González uses deployable mobile structures — kitchen carts and garden carts designed in collaboration with Chong Gu for public space activation. These objects function as tools, sites of pedagogy, and performance, becoming part of the work itself rather than merely supporting it. By extending communal practice into public spaces, the work resists permanence.
With an MFA from Hunter College and a BA in Design and Social Context from UdK Berlin, projects engage with agroecology, public architecture, and public health prioritizing sustained engagement over extractive encounters. Learning becomes dialogue and collective exploration, drawn to collective inquiry.
They have previously been a visiting lecturer at The School of Visual Arts and New School University Eugene Lang College and serve on the board of directors for The Filmmaker’s Cooperative.
Recent collaborations with:
Red Canary Song, The Filmmaker’s Cooperative
The Institute for Public Architecture, Deli Radio, KERMESSE and Galerie Derouillon, Creative Time, The Storefront for Art and Architecture, MoMa PS1, Pioneer Works, Recess Art, Socrates Sculpture Park
hola@zacariasgonzalez.com
Projects
CENTER FOR PERFORMANCE RESEARCH | Open Door | Tesora Garcia | Visual AIDS
2026, New York
吃了吗 | Em ăn cơm chưa | ¿Ya comiste hoy? | Have you eaten? participatory film, 2026- ongoing
RED CANARY SONG | “The Whore’s Feast” film
support provided by the Mellon Foundation-funded Intersectional Feminist/Queer Studies Collective and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Emergent Fund, and Anonymous Was a Woman fund, with special thanks to: Art and Public Policy at Tisch, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, Center for Black Visual Culture, Center for Disability Studies, and The Latinx Project.
2025 -2026, New York
“CARRY” | CHONG GU
2025-ongoing, New York
PEOPLE’S GARDEN | Urban Soils Institute, Earth Matter, Swale, and Institute for Public Architecture
2025 - ongoing, New York
TEST KITCHEN|Institute for Public Architecture
2025 -2026, New York
“IN THE GARDEN”| Institute for Public Architecture
2025, New York
PROJECT EATS + THE CLEMENTE “Companion Planting”
2025, New York
THE FILMMAKER’S COOPERATIVE | “Public Film Series”
2025, New York
DELI RADIO | Residency Insitute for Public Architecture
2025, New York
INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE | “Earth Life”
2025, New York
RECESS ART | DELI RADIO ¨Earth life¨ Interviews
2024, New York
“Chicles y Chocolates” | participatory documentary film
2024, New York
INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE | EARTHLIFE “MUD”
2024, New York
BEAKS | JULIAN FARADE
Published by KERMESSE and Galerie Derouillon, 2024, France
CREATIVE TIME | “NYCHA AND PUBLIC GARDENS”
2024, New York
CREATIVE TIME | SEED FREEDOM: ECONOMY OF CARE + JUMANA MANNA “WILD RELATIVES” 2024, New York
DESIGN FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION PANEL “Nourishment”
School of Visual Arts, 2024, New York
THE STOREFRONT OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE
“Artist Cohort Dinner”, 2024, New York
NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY EUGENE LANG COLLEGE GURAL SCHOLARS | “the future of food”, 2024, New York
JUDSON ARTS | DORCHEL HAQQ “intotheswallow”,
2024, New York
RECESS ART | MARCELA TORRES, “Mud/Barro”
2024, New York
THE STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE + MONTEZ RADIO “care”, 2023, New York
INDEX SPACE | “EAT”
2023, New York
GLOBAL GUEST LECTURES SERIES | DESIGN FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION “Why Food”
2023, School of Visual Arts, New York
ANCESTRAL RHYTHMS OF THE HARVEST: RITUAL CYCLES OF GRIEF, GRATITUDE, AND REAPING “Food Workshop”
2021, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
AUXILIO SPACE
2019 - 2022, New York
CENTER FOR PERFORMANCE RESEARCH | Open Door | Tesora Garcia | Visual AIDS
2026, New York
吃了吗 | Em ăn cơm chưa | ¿Ya comiste hoy? | Have you eaten? participatory film, 2026- ongoing
RED CANARY SONG | “The Whore’s Feast” film
support provided by the Mellon Foundation-funded Intersectional Feminist/Queer Studies Collective and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Emergent Fund, and Anonymous Was a Woman fund, with special thanks to: Art and Public Policy at Tisch, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, Center for Black Visual Culture, Center for Disability Studies, and The Latinx Project.
2025 -2026, New York
“CARRY” | CHONG GU
2025-ongoing, New York
PEOPLE’S GARDEN | Urban Soils Institute, Earth Matter, Swale, and Institute for Public Architecture
2025 - ongoing, New York
TEST KITCHEN|Institute for Public Architecture
2025 -2026, New York
“IN THE GARDEN”| Institute for Public Architecture
2025, New York
PROJECT EATS + THE CLEMENTE “Companion Planting”
2025, New York
THE FILMMAKER’S COOPERATIVE | “Public Film Series”
2025, New York
DELI RADIO | Residency Insitute for Public Architecture
2025, New York
INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE | “Earth Life”
2025, New York
RECESS ART | DELI RADIO ¨Earth life¨ Interviews
2024, New York
“Chicles y Chocolates” | participatory documentary film
2024, New York
INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE | EARTHLIFE “MUD”
2024, New York
BEAKS | JULIAN FARADE
Published by KERMESSE and Galerie Derouillon, 2024, France
CREATIVE TIME | “NYCHA AND PUBLIC GARDENS”
2024, New York
CREATIVE TIME | SEED FREEDOM: ECONOMY OF CARE + JUMANA MANNA “WILD RELATIVES” 2024, New York
DESIGN FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION PANEL “Nourishment”
School of Visual Arts, 2024, New York
THE STOREFRONT OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE
“Artist Cohort Dinner”, 2024, New York
NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY EUGENE LANG COLLEGE GURAL SCHOLARS | “the future of food”, 2024, New York
JUDSON ARTS | DORCHEL HAQQ “intotheswallow”,
2024, New York
RECESS ART | MARCELA TORRES, “Mud/Barro”
2024, New York
THE STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE + MONTEZ RADIO “care”, 2023, New York
INDEX SPACE | “EAT”
2023, New York
GLOBAL GUEST LECTURES SERIES | DESIGN FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION “Why Food”
2023, School of Visual Arts, New York
ANCESTRAL RHYTHMS OF THE HARVEST: RITUAL CYCLES OF GRIEF, GRATITUDE, AND REAPING “Food Workshop”
2021, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
AUXILIO SPACE
2019 - 2022, New York
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