Ken Gonzales-Day


	Ken Gonzales-Day lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from UC Irvine, and his MA in Art History from Hunter College (C.U.N.Y). Fellowships include: Whitney Museum of American Art, ISP; Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio (Italy); (Latino Studies) American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (2008). His book, Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 was published by Duke University Press in 2006. Gonzales-Day is a Professor at Scripps College.

Solo exhibitions include: Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles; Highways, Santa Monica; SPACE, Portland, Maine; LAXART, Los Angeles; CUE Art Foundation, NYC; Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont; Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles; Deep River, Los Angeles; Cristinerose Gallery, NYC; White Columns White Room, NYC. Group exhibitions include: Under Erasure, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin; Phantom Sightings, LACMA, Los Angeles; Under Pain of Death, Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC; ArtMediaPolitique, DIX291, Paris; Viva Mexico, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (traveled to WCA, Gallery of Contemp. Art, Wroclaw); Past Over, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles; Crimes of Omission, ICA Philadelphia; Exile of the Imaginary: Aesthetics, Politics, Love, Generali Foundation, Vienna; Civil Restitutions, Thomas Dane Gallery, London; An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life, REDCAT, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles; Log Cabin, Artists Space, NYC; Picarte , Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Reimaging the West, SF Camerawork, San Francisco; FotoLatina, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara and Five Continents and One City, Mexico City; the Art Mall at the New Museum, NYC; among others.