Zacarías González is a transdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in NYC, working through documentary, participatory art, and radical pedagogy. Their practice develops place-specific strategies for designing with life rather than against it, within agroecology, public architecture, and public health. Projects emerge from questions they carry into research, relationship, and collective imagination. Food is the container: shared meals create conditions for gathering, relationality, and learning together, addressing interconnected social and ecological issues of migration, labor precarity, food sovereignty, and land relations.
Their long-term projects include Carry for Historias, a fleet of mobile kitchen carts designed with Chong Gu that gathers Latinx foodways and oral histories across the Lower East Side, commissioned by The Clemente for REVELADAS (2027), with the accompanying feature documentary Carry: 吃了吗 | Have you eaten? | Em ăn cơm chưa | ¿Ya has comido?; a documentary collaboration The Whore’s Feast with Red Canary Song; the People's Garden on Governors Island with the Urban Soils Institute and the Institute for Public Architecture; Future Food with Creative Time; and auxilio space, a community food center for queer, Black, trans, and Indigenous New Yorkers and people living with HIV.
González serves on the Board of Directors of The Film-Makers' Cooperative and has lectured at the School of Visual Arts, The New School, and Columbia GSAPP. In 2026 they spoke on "Food: Radical Pedagogy and Care" at LA ESCUELA___'s decentralized symposium for Education as Resistance (MoMA PS1), held across New York, Mexico City, Guatemala City, and Bogotá, and led a communal food moment on food sovereignty and screened their film essay Untitled Love Project in OPEN DOOR, curated by Visual AIDS at the Center for Performance Research.
They hold an MFA from Hunter College and a BA from the Universität der Künste Berlin.
Recent collaborations: The Clemente, Creative Time, Red Canary Song, LA ESCUELA___, Visual AIDS, CPR – Center for Performance Research, Project EATS, Dept. of Transformation, MoMA PS1, The Film-Makers' Cooperative, Institute for Public Architecture, Deli Radio, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Pioneer Works, Recess Art, Socrates Sculpture Park.
Their long-term projects include Carry for Historias, a fleet of mobile kitchen carts designed with Chong Gu that gathers Latinx foodways and oral histories across the Lower East Side, commissioned by The Clemente for REVELADAS (2027), with the accompanying feature documentary Carry: 吃了吗 | Have you eaten? | Em ăn cơm chưa | ¿Ya has comido?; a documentary collaboration The Whore’s Feast with Red Canary Song; the People's Garden on Governors Island with the Urban Soils Institute and the Institute for Public Architecture; Future Food with Creative Time; and auxilio space, a community food center for queer, Black, trans, and Indigenous New Yorkers and people living with HIV.
González serves on the Board of Directors of The Film-Makers' Cooperative and has lectured at the School of Visual Arts, The New School, and Columbia GSAPP. In 2026 they spoke on "Food: Radical Pedagogy and Care" at LA ESCUELA___'s decentralized symposium for Education as Resistance (MoMA PS1), held across New York, Mexico City, Guatemala City, and Bogotá, and led a communal food moment on food sovereignty and screened their film essay Untitled Love Project in OPEN DOOR, curated by Visual AIDS at the Center for Performance Research.
They hold an MFA from Hunter College and a BA from the Universität der Künste Berlin.
Recent collaborations: The Clemente, Creative Time, Red Canary Song, LA ESCUELA___, Visual AIDS, CPR – Center for Performance Research, Project EATS, Dept. of Transformation, MoMA PS1, The Film-Makers' Cooperative, Institute for Public Architecture, Deli Radio, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Pioneer Works, Recess Art, Socrates Sculpture Park.
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