Zac Hacmon is an artist based in New York. He has recently exhibited at the Pratt Munson Museum, Utica (NY), the Locust Projects, Miami (FL), the 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 (LMCC) 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).
Education:
2015 - 2018 M.F.A, Department of Art, Hunter College, New York
2009 - 2012 B.F.A, Department of Art, Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem
2012 'Slade' School of Fine Arts, UCL, London (exchange student)
2005 - 2008 Industrial design student at H.I.T Holon Institute of Technology
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 'Mi Sueño', Pratt Munson Museum, Utica, NY
2022 ‘MIA’, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2020 'Dispositif', Slag Gallery, New York
2020 'Beyond the Pale', The Border Project Space, Brooklyn, New York
2019 'UNBORN', mh PROJECT nyc, New York
2018 'AFTERLIFE', LMAK Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions :
2023 'Invisible Bodies', Penn State University Art Alley, State College, PA
2023 'Four Minutes in the Past', GHOSTMACHINE Gallery, New York, NY
2023 'Invisible Hands', 601 ArtSpace, New York, NY
2023 'Art + Tech', Department of Humanities, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY
2023 'BORDERWALLS V', The Border Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2022 ‘Materia/Material’, National Academy of Design, Governors Island, NY
2022 'Sanctuary City: Three Artists Explore the Refugee Experience in New York City, HEHG Gallery New York, NY
2022 'Floating Walls', JCC Gallery, New York, NY
2021 'The Breathing Project', The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 'More Time Less', Cathouse Proper Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 'Memory Palace', SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2020 'Dissolving Artifacts', 10 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
2019 'King of the Hill', Jack Shainman Gallery, NY
2018 ‘Code vs. Code’, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2018 ‘Empathy’, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2018 ‘Security Measures’, Sklar Levy Gallery, Modi’in, Israel
2018 'LOOP- N- PATH', 205 Project Space, New York, NY
2018 ‘Defining Form’, The Untitled Space, New York, NY
2018 'Sanctity', Thomas Hunter Project Space, New York, NY
2018 ‘Placing Memory’, The Clemente Center, LES Gallery, New York, NY
2018 ‘Opening’, SKLAR LEVY GALLERY, Modi’in, Israel
2018 ‘IIAF’, St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, New York, NY
2018 ‘Falsified Familiarity’, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2018 ‘Superheated’, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2018 ‘Functional Functionality’, LMAK Gallery, New York, NY
2017 ‘Members Invitational’, Equity Gallery, New York, NY
2017 ‘Citizens’, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel
2017 ‘Nostalgia’ Red Barn Project Space, Santa Barbara, California
2016 ‘Drawing Camp’, Beer-Sheba Museum, Beer-Sheba, Israel
2015 ‘SHIFT/LEVERAGE/MOVE’, Curb Gallery, New York, NY
2015 'Objectonomy', MeetFactory Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2014 'A Room of His Own', Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
2014 'Waterscapes', Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2014 'MAC International', The MAC, Belfast, Ireland
2014 'Aliyah Market', STA Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 'Spot Connection' National Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2014 'No Man's Land', Jerusalem Artist House, Jerusalem, Israel
2014 ‘Masculinity’ National Art Gallery, Changdong, Seoul, South Korea
2013 'Hard to Get', Old Central Bus Station, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013 'Goods', Bat-Yam Museum, Bat-Yam, Israel
2013 'Spacious', Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013 'The Readymade Centennial', Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2013 'Port of Exit', Jaffa Port, Hanger 2, Jaffa, Israel
2013 'Mother's Garden', Hecht House, Haifa, Israel
2012 'MuezzIn', Kayma Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
2012 'Breathing Concrete', KG 45, Tel Aviv, Israel
Residency:
2023 Artist-in-Residence program at Transborder Arts, Governors Island, NY
2022 Artist-in-Residence program at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2021 Silver Art Projects Digital Residency, NYC
2020 Artist in Residence at The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, Florida
2019 - 2020 LMCC, Workspace, On-Site Assistant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC
2018 - 2019 LMCC, Artist-in-Residence, Workspace, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC
2017 Fellowship Artist in Residence Program at Salem Art Works, Salem, New York
2015 International Artist-in-Residence Program at MeetFactory Studio, Prague, Czech Republic
2014 MMCA International Artists Residency Program at National Art Studio, Changdong, South Korea
Recent Awards, and Grants:
2023 Artis Foundation Exhibition Grant
2023 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2022 Artis Foundation Exhibition Grant
2021 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Creative Engagement Grant
2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture
2020 Artis Residency Grant
2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2019 Santo Foundation Individual Artist Award
2019 Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation NYC 2019 Fall Visual Project Exhibition Grant
2019 Hopper Prize Finalist
2018 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist in New York Grant Nominee
2018 MFA Thesis Grant, Research Foundation CUNY, Hunter College
2018 The Hunter College Foundation
2017 Salem Art Works Fellowship
2016 UJA-Federation of New York’s Rose Biller Endowment Fund Award
2016 Rita Glasser Fellowship Award
2014 Rabinovich Foundation Award for a special project in Arts.
2012 Stipend for outstanding students at the Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, awarded by The Jerusalem Foundation
2009 Bezalel School of Fine Arts Scholarship
2009 Stipend for outstanding students at the Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, awarded by The Jerusalem Foundation
Publications & Interviews:
The Brooklyn Rail, Zac Hacmon: Mia, Emireth Herrera Valdés, November 2022
Whitehot Magazine, The clinical aesthetic of Zac Hacmon at Locust Projects, Jonathan Orozco, October 2022
The Brooklyn Rail, More Time Less, Sophia Ma, January 2021
Foundwork, Interview with Artist Zac Hacmon, Isabel Flower, October 8, 2020
ARTFUSE, Interview with Artist Zac Hacmon, Eva Mayhabal Davis, March 16, 2020
Arcade Project, Zac Hacmon at The Border, Roman Kalinovski, March 4, 2020
Art Spiel, Zac Hacmon at the Border, Etty Yaniv, February 26, 2020
100 Sculptors of Tomorrow, Thames & Hudson, Kurt Beers, September 3, 2019
Frame Magazine, 'Inter Slate', John Jervis, April 2019
Office Magazine, 'Safe Zone', John Martin Tilley, April 20, 2019
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, ‘Code vs Code’, Irith Hadar, November 2018
ART OBSERVED, ‘ON-SITE – NEW YORK: SPRING/BREAK ART FAIR’, D. Creahan, March 7, 2018
Guernica/ a magazine of global arts & politics, ‘The Greater (Grater) Divide’, Roslyn Bernstein, June 19, 2017
Petach Tikva Museum of Art, 'Citizens', Neta Gal Azmon, April 2017
Jerusalem Post, ‘The artistic twilling zone’, Barry Davis, June 13, 2014
Time Out/ Tel Aviv, ‘Lullaby’, Auzi Zur, August 29, 2013
Lectures & Panels:
2022 Invisible Nicaragua Panel Discussion, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2022 Architecture & Identity, Artist Talk, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Oklahoma
2022 Panel Discussion with Sanctuary City Artists moderated by Borderless, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, NY
2018 Visiting Artist at NYU BFA Program, NY
2017 Artist Talk, Hunter College BFA Program, NY