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.
NEWS for Zaq Landsberg
Public art project "Reclining Liberty" reimagines Statue of Liberty, Dick Brennan, CBS New York News, 6/29/2022
Arts in the City October 2021, Donna Hanover, CUNY TV, 10/2021
The Get Out, Jennifer Vanasco, All of It, WNYC 5/13/2021
RTVi (Russian Language), Anastasiia Chumakova, 6/17/2021
Fuji TV (Japanese Language), Hunter Hoysradt,
Selected Print and Digital Media:
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
Lady Liberty is Currently Relaxing at a Park across the Hudson, Anna Rahmanan, Time Out New York, 5/26/2022
Photos: You May Now Recline Alongside Lady Liberty In Manhattan, Ben Yakas, Gothamist, 6/9/2021
Reclining Liberty Gets a Touch-Up, Aaron Morrill, Jersey City Times, 7/11/2022
25-foot ‘Reclining Liberty’ finds a home in Liberty State Park, Jake Maher, NJ.com, 5/29/2022
There is a Reclining Liberty Statue in a Harlem Park, And You Can Touch It, Angie Kordic, Artiholics, 6/28/2021
Post-pandemic, Jersey City’s public spaces are back and better than ever, Elizabeth Cain, NJ.com, 1/5/2023
