Reclining Liberty

June 8 - June 24

Opens June 6pm - 8pm

Zaq Landsberg

Zaq Landsberg is a NYC-based artist. He specializes in large scale, site-specific sculptures, and public art. Much of his work involves things that look like other things. 

He has exhibited solo shows with the NYC Parks Department, with chashama (NYC), at CUAC (Salt Lake City, Utah), La Ene, (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and Pehr Space (LA).

His work has shown in group exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park (Queens, NY), Franconia Sculpture Park, (Shafer, MN), CCK, (Buenos Aires, Argentina), MALBA, (Buenos Aires), Bronx Community College (NY), Figment Festival (Governors Island, NY), and others.

He was awarded a NYC Parks Clare Weiss Emerging Artist Award in 2020, a UMEZ Arts Engagement Grant and LMCC Creative Engagement Grant (2020), NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Sculpture in 2017, the Art in the Parks: UNIQLO Park Expressions Grant and a More Art Engaging Artist Fellowship in 2018. He was an artist-in-residence with the LMCC Workspace Program 2019-2020, and Sculpture Space (Utica, NY) in 2012.

His antics have been covered in more than 40 countries in more than 27 languages, including Artnet news, Time Out NY, Vice, NY Daily News, The Believer, PEOPLE Magazine, Clarín (Argentina), ARTE (France), Blouin Art Info, Gothamist, KSL Salt Lake City, WGN Radio, NY Magazine, Fox News, The Daily Mail, among others.

He was born in Los Angeles, and holds a BFA from NYU. He is of Chinese and Jewish descent.