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?; The Whore’s Feast, a documentary collaboration with Red Canary Song; 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.
They serve on the Board of Directors of The Film-Makers' Cooperative and have lectured at the School of Visual Arts, The New School, and Columbia GSAPP. They developed the syllabus for the Design for Social Innovation MFA at the School of Visual Arts. In 2026 they spoke at LA ESCUELA___’s decentralized symposium Education as Resistance (MoMA PS1) 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 also include Project EATS, Dept. of Transformation, Deli Radio, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Pioneer Works, Recess Art, and 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?; The Whore’s Feast, a documentary collaboration with Red Canary Song; 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.
They serve on the Board of Directors of The Film-Makers' Cooperative and have lectured at the School of Visual Arts, The New School, and Columbia GSAPP. They developed the syllabus for the Design for Social Innovation MFA at the School of Visual Arts. In 2026 they spoke at LA ESCUELA___’s decentralized symposium Education as Resistance (MoMA PS1) 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 also include Project EATS, Dept. of Transformation, Deli Radio, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Pioneer Works, Recess Art, and Socrates Sculpture Park.
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