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Ken Gonzales-Day |
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| EDUCATION | ||
| MFA, Studio Art, University of California, Irvine. |
| MA, Art History |
| Hunter College, Art History, C.U.N.Y., New York, N.Y. |
| BFA, Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. |
| Certificate, Studio Art, St. Luc., L'Ecole Des Arts Plastique, Institute Superieur, Liége, Belgium. |
| FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS | ||
| 2008 | Visiting Scholar, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles | |
| 2007 | Mid-Career Fellowship for Los Angeles Artists, California Community Foundation, Los Angeles. | |
| 2003 | Senior Fellow, Latino Studies, American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, |
| Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. |
| 2002 | Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy. |
| Graves Award for Achievment in the Humanities, The Arnold and Lois Graves Award. | ||
| 2001 | Durfee Foundation, Artist Competion Grant in the Visual Arts. | |
| 1997 | WESTAF/NEA, Institutional award to Out North Art House for solo exhibition. | |
| 1996 | WESTAF/NEA, Individual Award in New Genre. | |
| 1995 | American Photography Institute, National Graduate Seminar. Tisch School of the Arts, |
| New York University, New York, New York. |
| 1992 | Whitney Museum of American Art, Van Lier Fellow, Independent Study Program "ISP" in Studio Art |
| New York, New York. |
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| 2006 | Ken Gonzales-Day. Lynching in the West: 1850-1935. A John Hope Franklin Book. |
| Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2008 | "Physiognomy and the Love of Mankind", Steve Turner Contemporary, LA, CA. Apr.18- May 24. | |
| 2007 | "The Wonder Gaze", Space, Porland, MA. Oct.5- Nov. 19. | |
| "Nightfall II -Redux", Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Sept.15- Nov.30. | ||
| "Memento Mori", Gallery Two, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA. Jan.20- Mar. 3 | ||
| 2006 | "Project Series 30: Hang Trees", Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA. |
| Sept.10- Oct.22. (Catalog) |
| "Lynching in the West", Cue Art Foundation, New York. Sept.7- Oct.14. (Catalog) |
| 2000 | "Dysmorphologies", Deep River, Los Angeles, CA. Sept.23- Oct.29. |
| "Project Room", Suzanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA. May 9- Jun.8. |
| 1999 | "Projects99", Walkins Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA. Feb.22- Mar.30. |
| 1998 | "Derm", POSTdowntown, 1904 E. 7th Pl. LA, CA. Nov.22, 1997- Jan.10, 1998. |
| 1997 | "Bone-Grass Boy: The Secret Banks of the Conejos River", Out North Contemporary Art House, |
| Anchorage, AK. Feb.22- Mar.22. |
| 1996 | "Ken Gonzales-Day", White Columns, White Room#1, New York, NY. Oct.25- Dec.2. |
| "Private Investigations", Cristinerose Gallery, 395 W. Broadway, New York, NY. Sept.6- Oct.6. |
| PUBLIC ART PROJECTS | ||
| 2007 | Los Angeles County Administrative Building, Vermont Avenue between 83rd & 84th. |
| Four large ceramic tile murals. Completed Oct. 2007. |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2008 | "Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement", LACMA, LA, CA. Apr.6- Sept. 1. (Traveling to Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Moterrey; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Centro Cultural Universitario, Guadalajara; and El Museo del Barrio and the Americas Society, New York) |
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| "After Erasure", Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland. Jun.10- Jul. 6 | ||
| "Under Pain of Death", Austrian Kultureforum, New York, NY. Jan.21 - May 10 |
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| "ArtMediaPolitique", DIX29, Paris, France. Jan.10- Mar.15. | ||
| "Top Eleven", Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, Jan.5- Feb.2. | ||
| 2007 | Steve Turner Contemporary at Aqua Wynnwood, Miami, Fl. Dec.6- 9. | |
| "Viva Mexico", Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland. Sept.17- Nov.18 (traveled to BWA | ||
| Galleries for Contemporary Art in Wroclaw, Jan.18- Feb. 17, 2008). | ||
| "Past Over", Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA. Jun. 2- Jun. 30. | ||
| "Crimes of Omission", Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Apr. 20- Aug. 5. | ||
| "Exile of the Imaginary", Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria. Jan. 18- Apr. 29. | ||
| "Strange Fruit: Lynching and Hate Crimes", U of RI, Providence Campus Gallery, Jan. 16-Feb. 23. | ||
| 2006 | "Civil Restitutions", Thomas Dane Gallery, London. Sept. 5- Oct.3 |
| "An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life", REDCAT, Los Angeles. Feb. 2- Apr. 2. |
| 2005 | "Scripps College Faculty Exhibition", Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Nov. 5- Dec. 18. |
| "Korea Mexico", Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA. May 20- June 15. |
| "The Other Early Americans", El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA, Feb. 11- Mar. 11. |
| Works appeared in, "Me and You and Everyone We Know". Directed by Miranda July. | ||
| "Log Cabin", Artist's Space, New York, NY, Jan. 18- Feb. 28. |
| COLLECTIONS | ||
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia | ||
| Eileen Norton Collection, Santa Monica, CA |
| Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies LACPS (produced edition) |
| Muse [X] Editions (produced edition) |
| Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA | ||
| Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA |
| ESSAYS IN BOOKS, CATALOGUES and JOURNALS | ||
| 2007 | Ken Gonzales-Day and Edgar Arcenaux, “Ken Gonzales-Day and Edgar Arcenaux” |
| Edited by Matt Keegan & Sara Greenberg Rafferty, NDP # 4, 2007. |
| 2005 | Ken Gonzales-Day. "Bone-Grass Boy", Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2, fall '05. | |
| 2004 | Ken Gonzales-Day. Entries on: "Photography, Gay Male: Pre-Stonewall"; "Photography, Gay Male: |
| Post-Stonewall"; "Paul Cadmus"; "Marsden Hartley"; "Herbert List"; "George Platt Lynes"; "Robert Mapplethorpe"; "Tom of Finland", in The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts. Edited by Claude J. Summers. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2004. |
| 2003 | Ken Gonzales-Day. "Seeing Gray: Whiteness and the Erasure of Difference", in Whiteness: A |
| Wayward Construction. Laguna Beach/Los Angeles: Laguna Art Museum/Fellows of Contemporary Art, 2003, 118-130. |
| 2002 | Ken Gonzales-Day. "Analytical Photography: Portraiture, from the Index to the Epidermis", in |
| Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2002, 23-30. |
| Ken Gonzales-Day. "Choloborg: The Disappearance of the Latino Body", Art Journal, College Art |
| Association, Spring 2001, Vol. 60. No. 1., 23-26 (+ cover image ). |
| Ken Gonzales-Day. Entries on "Bruce of Los Angeles"; "Romaine Brooks"; "Claude Cahun"; "Charles |
| Demuth"; "Marsden Hartley"; "Weiwha", in Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day, Eds. Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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| 2007 | Juli Carson, “Exile of the Imaginary: Politics, Aesthetics, Love” in Exile of the Imaginary: Politics, Aesthetics, Love. Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2007(+ cover image ). | |
Parveen Adams, “Art and the Time of Repetition” in Exile of the Imaginary: Politics, Aesthetics, Love. Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2007. |
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| 2006 | Michele White, The Body and the Screen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006 (plus cover). |
| 2003 | Christine Paul, Digital Art: Thames & Hudson world of Art. London/New York: Thames & Hudson, |
| 2003, 36-37. |
| 2002 | Ebeardon, Colin and Lone Malmborg, editors. Digital Creativity: A Reader. Lisse, Netherlands, Swets & Zeitlinger, 2002 |
| 2001 | Mariana Botey and Pilar Perez, Eds. Capital Art: On the Culture of Punishment. |
| Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 2001, 45. | |||
| 2000 | Barron, Bernstein and Fort, Eds. Made in California: Art, Image and Identity. Berkeley/Los Angeles: |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art/University of California Press, 2000, 297. |
| REVIEWS and ARTICLES (selected) | ||
| 2008 | Julia Bryan-Wilson, "Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement", ArtForum, Summer, |
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| Richard Chang, "The Chicano Art Movement carries through art", Orange County Register, June 5. | ||
| Christopher Miles, "LACMA EAST: 'Phantom Sightings' Chronicles the Rise of Post-Chicanoism", LA Weekly, April 30. | ||
| Parveen Adams, "The Art of Repetition: Exploitation or Ethics?" ArtMonitor, Spring. | ||
| Christopher Knight, "'Phantom Sightings' at LACMA", Los Angeles Times, Art Review, Apr. 15. | ||
| Agustin Gurza, "Chicano Art, Beyond Rebellion", Los Angeles Times, April 5. | ||
| Daniela Perdomo, "Taking Art to the Streets of L. A. County", Los Angeles Times, March 12. | ||
| R. C. Baker, "Take Your Pic", Village Voice, March 4. | ||
| Ken Johnson, "Sanctioned Killings, and the Very Many That Aren't", New York Times, Feb. 1 | ||
| Sonja Fercher, "Opfer nicht noch einmal zu Opfer machen", Der Standard (Vienna), Jan. 21 | ||
| 2007 | Schoeny, Roland. Translated by Andreas Lazar. “The Approach to Empty Subjective |
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Mendoza, Sylvia. “Ken Gonzales-Day –Scholar Documents California Lynchings, |
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| Meyers, Holly. “Around the Galleries”, Los Angeles Times, June 22. | ||
| Muchnic, Suzanne. “Community Foundation will announce Friday its winner of fellowships for LA. Visual artists”, Los Angeles Times, June 15. | ||
| Mary Wilson, “Just do it”, Philadelphia City Paper, April 17. | ||
| Colin Westerbeck, "Photo Synthesis: Franklin Avenue", West Magazine, LA Times, Mar 4,10. | ||
| End Paper, "The Last Living Witnesses", The Chronicle Review, February 2, 2007, B19. | ||
| Robert Fleming, "A Heinous Act", Black Issues book review, January/February, 26. | ||
| Mitra Abbaspour, "Ken Gonzales-Day", artUS, January/February, Issue 16, 50. | ||
| Von Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer, “Strukturen einer Liebscaft”, Weiner Zeitung, January 18. | ||
| 2006 | Jody Zellen, "Ken Gonzales-Day: Hang Trees", Artweek, December 2006/January 2007. | |
| Joan Hinkemeyer, “Picks of the Week”, Rocky Mountain News, Dec. 1. | ||
| Susanne Munchnic, "Museums Taking Time to Focus on Photos", Sunday Calendar, |
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| Holland Cotter, "Art in Review: Ken Gonzales-Day", New York Times, |
| September 22, 2006, p. B29. |
| Jaun Merino, "Los Linchamientos en el Oeste", El Diario, New York, September 10, 24. | ||
| Jori Finkel, "Recipe for Revolution: Take 11,000 Thousand Photos", New York Times, |
| January 29, 2006, p. 32. |
| 2005 | Jennifer Flores Sternad, "An Interview with Ken Gonzales-Day", Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano |
| Studies, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (+ cover image) |
| Andy Brumer, "Highlighting other 'Early Americans'", Los Angeles Times, March 3, 2005. |
| Gerard Robinson, "Not at Home in Log Cabins", New York Blade, Feb. 04, 2005. |
| Holland Cotter, "Log Cabin", New York Times, Jan. 28, 2005. |
| Bill Wilson, "Interview with Ken Gonzales-Day", Rim: Artist Rag from Mexico City and L.A. |
| (No. 4, Spring 2004), 31-33. The interview also appears on www.Latinart.com . |
| Gina Cavallo Collins, "Through the Lens Violently", Phoenix New Times, Jan. 15. |
| GUEST LECTURER/CONFERENCES | ||
| 2008 | "Lynching in the West" Temple Bar Gallery and Studio, Dublin, Ireland, Jun. 11. | |
| Ken Gonzales-Day leads Walk-Though of Kara Walker Exhibition, Hammer Museum, Apr. 24. | ||
| “Ken Gonzales-Day and Connie Samaras”, Photo LA in association with LACMA, Barker Hanger in Santa Monica January 12. |
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| 2007 | "Book Reading and Reception", REDCAT, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, Oct. 21. | |
| "The Wonder Gaze", SPACE, Portland, Maine, Oct. 18. | ||
| "Lynching in the West", Center for Study of Race, Politics and Culture, U. of Chicago, May 16. | ||
| “Rewriting the West,” Awards Convocation, Scripps College, May 12. | ||
| "UCSD Visual Arts Department Presents: Ken Gonzales-Day", May 10. | ||
| "Crimes of Omission Seminar", Art History Dept., University of Pennsylvania, Apr. 19. | ||
| "Penal California: Tracing Its Origins, Sketching Its Future", San Jose State University, Justice Studies Department Conference, April 6. | ||
| "Conversations with Artists: Ken Gonzales-Day", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mar. 15. | ||
| "Lynching in the West", Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA. Mar. 2. | ||
| "Memento Mori", Discussion w/ Bill Kelley, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA. Feb. 24. | ||
| "The Wonder Gaze: Lynching in Los Angeles", Humanties Institute, Scripps College, Jan. 30. | ||
| "Exile of the Imaginary", Panel Discussion, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria. Jan. 18 | ||
| 2006 | ||
| "Ken Gonzales-Day", OTIS College of Art, Los Angeles, CA. November 30. | ||
| "Lynching of Latinos in California", Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA. November 7. |
| "Hang Trees", Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA. September 19. |
| "Ken Gonzales-Day and Bruce Yonemoto", CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY. September 8. |
| "Lynching of Latinos in the West", The Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, |
| Spring 2006 Colloquium, UCSD, San Diego, CA. May 10. |
| "Ken Gonzales-Day", Loyola Marymount College, Los Angeles, CA. April 28. |
| "An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life", Panel Discussion, REDCAT, |
| Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA, CA. Feb. 1, 2006. |
| 2005 | "Only Skin Deep Symposium", San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego. |
| "Ken Gonzales-Day", Occidental College, LA, CA. March 3, 2005. |
| ACADEMIC | ||
| 1995- | Professor, Art Department, Scripps College, Claremont, CA. |
| Present |
| Chair, Department of Art (2006-2008) |
| Chair, Department of Art and Art History (2003- 2006) |
| 2007- | Board of Directors, College Art Association |
| 2011 |