Videos
Videos:
The Metro D Line Subway Extension expands the subway from Koreatown to Westwood, connecting Downtown Los Angeles to the Westside. Metro Art–commissioned artist Ken Gonzales-Day’s 'Urban Excavation: Ancestors, Avatars, Bodhisattvas, Buddhas, Casts, Copies, Deities, Figures, Funerary Objects, Gods, Guardians, Mermaids, Metaphors, Mothers, Possessions, Sages, Spirits, Symbols, and Other Objects' combines larger than life images of diverse artifacts from the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to create an immersive environment that blurs the line between past and present. METRO
Commemorate World AIDS Day, designated as December 1, at The Broad with a panel discussion featuring multidisciplinary artists Rubén Esparza, Ken Gonzales-Day, and Joey Terrill, and photographer/documentarian Judy Ornelas Sisneros, moderated by art journalist Carolina A. Miranda. Artists have long raised their voices against injustice, channeled their unique talents to bring awareness to important topics, picked up cameras to document the world as it needs to be seen, and rallied movements around shared ideals. The Broad collection includes many artists whose artwork addresses cultural crises and current social and political topics. Throughout their careers, the speakers featured in The Broad’s World AIDS Day 2025 program have defiantly and proudly shaped how we see the AIDS crisis along with other pertinent issues. This conversation traces a timeline from the US government mishandling the onset of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, to Proposition 8 for same-sex marriage, the Covid-19 crisis, and repeated attempts to silence and strip rights from LGBTQIA+ individuals, immigrants, and other marginalized people. The Broad YouTube
On this episode of In Conversation, James Campbell is joined by Amelia Jones and Ken Gonzales Day as they discuss Amelia's new book, Ken Gonzales-Day: History’s “Nevermade”. Amelia Jones is Robert A. Day Professor and Vice Dean of Faculty and Research at Roski School of Art & Design, USC, and is a curator and scholar of contemporary art, performance, and feminist and sexuality studies. 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.
Counter Surveillance
Season 1, Episode 6: The exhibition Counter/Surveillance traces the historical roots of Cold War and modern surveillance devices and methods, and the artists who have examined these technologies through their work. Artists including Ken Gonzales-Day and Liat Segal, place a lens and critique modern surveillance through their work at the Wende exhibit. This video short is a part of the digital series, "PST ART: Fusing Art & Science."
Claremont Lewis Museum: Exhibition Tour
Filmed and Edited by Eddie Gonzalez, fall 2023
OUTWORDS: Ken Gonzales-Day
Interviewed by Lucy Mukerjee
Photography by Juan Raymundo Ramos, Jan. 11, 2023
at home: Artists in Conversation:
Yale Center for British Art, Oct. 19, 2022
ARTIST TALK: Ken Gonzales-Day on first anti-lynching exhibition
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is very pleased to present an artist talk with represented artist Ken Gonzales-Day. Feb 19, 2022
Weschler & KEN GONZALES-DAY | On the historical reality and artistic representation of Lynchings
17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Italian Pavilion, Arts Letters & Numbers · Sep 15, 2021
Photography as Revolutionary Aesthetic: An LA Artist ...
Getty Center ·Artists Todd Gray, Cauleen Smith, and Ken Gonzales-Day, each with distinct approaches to photo-based practices, Feb 8, 2021
Art Break: Where is the Person in a Portrait? Getty Villa, July 30, 2021
Interview with Jens Daehner, curator at the Getty Villa.
Public Art Series: Ken Gonzales-Day on “Profiled”
Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit theater. 2021. See Street view and read more about their public art program on my projects page.
See installation video for Playwrights Horizons here
TRACTION: Art Talk with Ken Gonzales-Day and Karolina Karlic
UC Santa Cruz Arts, Lectures, and Entertainment, 2021
In Conversation with Ken Gonzales-Day • 11 June 2021
Ken Gonzales-Day, Pandemic Oral History Project, Archives of American Art
An interview with Ken Gonzales-Day conducted 2020 July 31, by Josh Franco
Echo Locate | Ken Gonzales Day
Bridge Projects ongoing series Echo/Locate places both ourselves and the artist in an ongoing ..., 2020
Visual Citizenship | Erased Lynching Series by Ken Gonzales-Day
MSU Broad Assistant Curator Georgia Erger shares background information on Ken Gonzales-Day's Erased Lynchings, 2020
The Legacy of Lynching: Artistic Confrontations of Racial Terror
Yale University Art Gallery Ken Gonzales-Day, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Crystal Feimster, Jonathan Kubakundimana, with David W. Blight...2020
Ken Gonzales-Day: XMAP- In Plain Sight on Vimeo
Ken Gonzales-Day speaking on a panel about XMAP- In Plain Sight, Aug 20, 2020
Ken Gonzales-Day presents at the 2013 Creative Capital Artist Retreat
Ken Gonzales-Day (2012 Visual Arts) presented his project at the 2013 Creative Capital Artist Retreat.
Surface Tension by Ken Gonzales-Day: Murals, Signs, and Mark‐Making in LA
Skirball Cultural Center Experience Los Angeles through a new lens. SurfaceTension by Ken Gonzales-Day features 140+ new photographs of murals, 2017
Ken Gonzales-Day: Exploring Identity and Construction of Race (3:00)
hsofilms "Ken Gonzales-Day: Exploring Identity and Construction of Race" (3:00) a film by Hso, 2017
Run Up: Trailer
KEN GONZALES-DAY: Run Up is a short film inspired by California's last documented lynching of a Latinx. Directed by Andy Hines, 2015
Ken Gonzales-Day: Lynching in the West
CNN Headline News profiles professor of art Ken Gonzales-Day, Scripps College · May 2, 2012
How Many Billboards: Ken Gonzales-Day
How Many Billboards? Art In Stead was a large-scale urban exhibition debuting twenty-one new works, 2010