News:

Click on image for CNN interview, 2012
photo: JoAnnn Hockersmith, 2011

Welcome,

PROFILED SERIES
To see a brief introduction of me speaking about the Profiled series as part of How Many Billboards just click on the lavander link or on the photo above or click HERE to go to the interviews page. Profiled just recieved major support though a 2012 Creative Capital grant and an upcoming Public Art Commission through the Department of Cultural Affairs in Los Angeles --more on that soon.

PROFILED is also a new LACMA book on my work.To see images you can go to the PROJECTS page, or just follow the lavander link to order a copy. If you are looking for more information on the project you may want to read Avram Finkelstein's in ARTWRIT, Holly Meyers "in the Studio" in the Los Angeles Times, Sharon Mizota on Las Cienegas Projects in the LA Times, or Mark Feeney's review of the Tufts exhibition in The Boston Globe.

LYNCING IN THE WEST: 1850-1935
Click on CNN to see interview with Brad Pomerance. To hear Steven Cuevas's report on the exhibition at the Vincent Price Museum exhibition on The California Report or the KPCC version, just click on the highlighted text. If I could also mention that my first book, Lynching in the West:1850-1935 (Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 2006) is now available in its second edition. Thank you for your visit, and your interest.

Recent and upcoming exhbitions and lectures are listed below. Past exhbitions and press can be found on the CV or PRESS pages, or just click on the links at top of page. You can also explore many archived materials in the collection of the Claremont Colleges Digital Library.

Thanks, Ken

Exhibitions:

"Metro Orange Line Exhibition," Los Angeles Valley College Gallery, Oct. 11 - Dec. 13, 2012

"Messerschmidt and Modernity," The Getty Museum, Jul. 24 - Oct. 14, 2012

"Portrayal/Betrayal," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Jun. 2 - Sept. 23, 2012

"Game On," Peveto Gallery, Houston, TX, Mar. 9 - Apr. 6, 2012

"Making sense: contemporary LA photo artists," Art Gallery NSW, Sydney, Australia, Feb. 11 - May 13, 2012

"K. G. D: Disapearing into the trees..," Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA. Feb. 11- Apr. 27, 2012

Artist Protest Tower (Mark di Sivero) LAXART/GRI/PST, @ Sunset and Hilldale, Jan. 19- Mar. 24, 2012

Fred Torres Collaborations@ Pulse-Miami, Dec. 1 - 4, 2011

"Decisive Moments: Uncertain Times," Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON, Oct. 20 - Nov. 20, 2011

"Profiled," Fred Torres Collaborations, New York, NY. Oct. 11, 2011 - Nov. 12, 2011

Fred Torres Collaborations@ Pulse -Los Angeles, Sept. 30 - Oct. 3, 2011

Las Cienegas Projects @ Pulse -Los Angeles, Sept. 30 - Oct. 3, 2011

Profiled book launch, Art Catalogues, LACMA, Sept. 20-27, 2011

"Profiled,"Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA. Sept. 8 - Nov. 20, 2011

Encuentro Internacional de Medellin (MDE11) "Places of Knowledge in Art,"
Sept. 1 - Dec. 31, 2011

Metro Orange Line Extension, Canoga Station (to open 2012)

Lectures:

2012
Apr. 4: CSULB: visiting artist lecture Series, 5:00pm
Apr. 3: METRO informational workshop, Santa Monica, 6:00pm
Feb 24: respondent, How Many Billboards, CAA
Feb 11: lecture, Vincent Price Art Museum
Jan 15: keynote Artist Talk: Ken Gonzales-Day, photo l.a., Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Jan 8: moderator, Carleton Watkins: Complete Mammoth Prints (Weston Naef and others)