Ken Gonzales-Day

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. His widely exhibited Erased Lynching Series (ongoing), along with the publication of Lynching in the West: 1850–1935 at Duke University Press, 2006, transformed the understanding of racialized violence in the US and raised awareness of the lynching of Latinxs, Native Americans, Asians, African-Americans, and others to contextualize anti-immigration histories within the larger discussion of racial formation so central to this historical moment. Works from Profiled at LACMA in 2011 have been exhibited internationally and grew out of research into the history of racial depiction found in historic expositions and educational museum displays. In 2017, Gonzales-Day received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in photography and holds the Fletcher Jones Chair in Art at Scripps College.