West Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Ken Gonzales-Day

Friday, November 01, 2019 @ 5:00pm, Edward Dowd Bldg: 1st Floor Foyer

Exhibition Reception

Friday, November 01, 2019 @ 7:00pm, de Saisset Museum Auditorium

Keynote: From Absence to Unseen

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. Gonzales-Day was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography in 2017. His work has been exhibited at: The J. Paul Getty Museum; LACMA; The New Museum; REDCAT, Los Angeles; LAXART; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Generali Foundation, Vienna; the Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul; the National Portrait Gallery and the American Art Museum of the Smithsonian Institutions, among others. His books include Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 (Duke) and Profiled (LACMA).