Ken gonzales day biography definition

Ken Gonzales-Day is a photographer, writer and researcher.

GONZALES-DAY: I have always been interested in the history of art and art making.

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 museum displays.

Gonzales-Day began his career as a painter, but found that he could better explore the social and political issues he was interested in through.

Ken Gonzales-Day is an artist and writer who lives and works in the Los Angeles, CA, area.

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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: (Duke University Press, ) 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 helped to ground these anti-immigration and collective acts of violence and racial terror, within the larger discussion of policing, migration, and racial justice.

Works from the Profiled Series and related award winning publication Profiled (LACMA, ) have been exhibited internationally and this work grew out of his research into the history of racial depictions from the collections of over forty museums including