Join us for an exhibition walkthrough of Ken Gonzales-Day: History’s “Nevermade” led by artist Ken Gonzales-Day. Explore cultural memory through Gonzales-Day’s photographs, drawings, paintings, and scholarship research that confronts the omissions and erasures in official narratives, especially those related to race, place, memory, and identity in the United States. His work foregrounds the power of imagery to expose how American history silenced voices, bringing these stories to the forefront.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Ken Gonzales-Day is a Los Angeles-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice considers the historical construction of race and the limits of representational systems ranging from lynching photographs to educational museum displays. His widely exhibited Erased Lynching series (ongoing), along with the publication of Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 (Duke University Press, 2006) transformed the understanding of racialized violence in the United States and raised awareness of the lynching of Latinos, Native Americans, Asians, and African-Americans in California, and to see these collective acts of violence within the larger history of policing, anti-immigration movements, and racial terror lynchings.
Gonzales-Day received a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, an MFA from the University of California Irvine, an MA from Hunter College in NYC. He was a Van Lier Fellow in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program and his work has been widely exhibited: including The J. Paul Getty Museum; LACMA; MOCA; Luis De Jesus Los Angeles; Eastman Museum, Rochester; The Tamayo Museum, Mexico City; The Palais de Tokyo, Paris; The New Museum, CUE Art Foundation, The Kitchen, Jack Shainmann, and El Museo in NYC; The Generali in Vienna; and Thomas Dane Gallery in London, among others.
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