I am an interdisciplinary artist who explores socio-political conflicts through architecture. I investigate the use of architecture as a tool for division or as a measure to generate identity. I create site-specific installations that explore the social effects of political structures and security culture. In my installations, the viewer is a participant, active and linked to sites usually hidden from the public eye, such as borders and checkpoints.

My work illuminates the importance of providing human rights and social justice to refugees and asylum seekers. Through socially-engaged projects, I raise awareness of the current humanitarian refugee crisis caused by violence, climate change, and political persecution. My recent projects are based on collaborations with non-profit humanitarian organizations such as the RDJ Refugee Shelter in West Harlem, NY.

Zac Hacmon (b. Holon, Israel) is an artist based in New York. He has recently exhibited at the Locust Projects (FL), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel), Smack Mellon Gallery (New York), Petach Tikva Museum of Art (Israel), Meet Factory Gallery (Czech Republic), and Artsonje Center (South Korea), The MAC, Belfast (Ireland), Hunter East Harlem Gallery (New York), Jack Shainman Gallery (New York), The Border Project Space (New York). Hacmon has had residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha (NE), the Fountainhead, Miami (FL), the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace program (LMCC) and Salem Art Works (NY), MeetFactory Studio (Czech Republic), and MMCA National Art Studio in Seoul (South Korea). He has received the 2021 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement Grant, the 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, the Santo Foundation Individual Artist Award 2019, and the Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation Visual Project Exhibition Grant 2019. Hacmon received an MFA from Hunter College and a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Israel).

IG: @zac_hacmon