Ken Gonzales-Day
Ken Gonzales-Day
Note: Event will proceed as scheduled.
California artist Ken Gonzales-Day's interdisciplinary and conceptually grounded projects consider the history of photography, the construction of race, and the limits of representational systems ranging from the lynching photograph to museum display.
His Profiled images are included in the “Network of Mutuality: 50 Years Post-Birmingham” exhibition, which is on display now in The Art Gallery.
His work in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution American Art Museum; Getty Research Institute; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; L'Ecole des beaux-arts, Paris; and Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, among others. Gonzales-Day]s book Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 (Duke University Press, 2006) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
This lecture is FREE and open to the public.
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