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, Creative Time, The Storefront for Art and Architecture, MoMa PS1, Pioneer Works, Recess Art, Socrates Sculpture Park
hola@zacariasgonzalez.com
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, Creative Time, The Storefront for Art and Architecture, MoMa PS1, Pioneer Works, Recess Art, Socrates Sculpture Park
hola@zacariasgonzalez.com
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