Zaq Landsberg
Born 1985 in Los Angeles, CA; Lives in New York City, NY
Education: 2007 BFA, New York University, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2022: For centuries, and still...(anticipated completion), collaboration with Kevin Quiles Bonilla, Harlem Art Park, NYC
Reclining Liberty, Liberty State Park, NJ
Tomb Effigy of Magaret Corbin, Green-Wood Cemetery, NYC
2021: Tomb Effigy of Magaret Corbin, Clare Weiss Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, NYC Parks, Fort Tryon Park, NYC
Reclining Liberty, NYC Parks, Morningside Park, NYC
2018: Islands of the Unisphere, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY
2016: Discover Zaqistan: the Art of Adventure, CUAC, Salt Lake City, UT
2012: Consulate-General of Zaqistan, chashama, New York, NY
Embassy of Zaqistan, Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2008: Rewarding Savagery with Sweets, Pehrspace, Los Angeles CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020: Dissolving Artifacts, Studio 200, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
2019: Race and Revolution: Reimagining Monuments, Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY
NYU Grounds Art, Schwartz Plaza, New York University, New York, NY
Reclaiming the Hall: Diversity in Public Art, Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY
Art Alumni Show 2019, New York University, New York, NY
2018: Democracia en obra, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017: Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
Venedigbiennalen, ARTiE, Eslöv, Sweden
2015: ‘Solidaridad Obrera’ La Ene, Marker 2015, Art Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2014: Surcursal/Colección (La Ene), Sala Luis Miró Quesada Garland, Lima Perú
Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens NY
C-32 Sucursal. La Ene en Malba, Museo del Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Colección, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
2012: Figment Festival Sculpture Garden, Governor’s Island, New York City NY
2011: Figment Festival Sculpture Garden, Governor’s Island, New York City NY
2010: One Eye, Two "I's" Union Docs, Brooklyn NY
2007: End Times, BFA Thesis Exhibition, The Commons, New York University, New York NY
Awards, Honors and Residencies
2020: Clare Weiss Emerging Artist Award, NYC Parks Department; UMEZ Arts Engagement & LMCC Creative Engagement Grantee
2019: LMCC Artist-in-Residence, Workspace, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC
2018: Art in the Parks: UNIQLO Park Expressions Grant, NYC Parks Department
More Art Engaging Artists Fellowship, New York, NY
2017: NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Sculpture, NY
2017: Jerome Fellowship, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
2014: Emerging Artists' Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens NY
2012: Residency, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
2007: ISC Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, Honorable Mention
The NYU Dept. of Art and Art Professions Student Excellence Award
Selected Press
Lady Liberty is Currently Relaxing at a Park across the Hudson, Anna Rahmanan, Time Out New York, 5/26/2022
Arts in the City October 2021, Donna Hanover, CUNY TV, 10/2021
5 Things to Do on Memorial Day Weekend, Melissa Smith, The New York Times, 5/27/2021
Lady Liberty Seems to Want You to Draw Her Like One of Your French Girls, Valeria Ricciulli, Curbed/NYMag.com, 5/18/2021
The Get Out, Jennifer Vanasco, All of It, WNYC, 5/13/2021
A Review of: Race and Revolution: Reimagining Monuments, Heather Radke, The Believer, 5/24/19
[Reasons to Love NY] Because We’re Colonizing Utah, Jessica Roy, New York Magazine, 12/17/15
Welcome to Zaqistan, an Artist-Run Republic in the Utah Desert, Claire Voon, Hyperallergic, 11/11/15
A Trip to Zaqistan, One Man's 'Sovereign Nation' in the Middle of the Utah Desert, Mike Abu, Vice, 10/29/15
Welcome to Zaqistan! New York artist founds his own nation in Utah desert — and keeps it going for a decade, Jason Silverstein, NY Daily News, 11/1/15
Sculptor Remakes NYPD Surveillance Tower as Terrifying Spider, Sarah Cascone, artnet news, 9/11/14
Artist Version of NYPD Surveillance Tower Has Legs, Howard Halle, Time Out New York, 9/8/14