Ken Gonzales-Day's guest appearances

Ken Gonzales-Day

The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Art & Identity: The Artists Lecture Series

Pandemic Oral History Project

Bruce Yonemoto

Sheila Pepe

Sheila Hicks

Carrie Moyer

Michael Rakowitz

LaToya Ruby Frazier

Marilyn Minter

Nayland Blake

Tony Conrad

Dorothea Lange

Catherine Wagley

Elizabeth Alexander

Sanford Biggers

Kim Jones

Lita Albuquerque

OwlTail

Episode No. 498 features artist Ken Gonzales-Day and curator Rachel Adams. Gonzales-Day is among the artists included in "Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA" at the J. Paul Getty Museum. The exhibition opens when Getty Center re-opens on May 25, and will be on view through October 10. "Photo Flux" features pictures by 35 Los Angeles-based artists who challenge ideals related to beauty, representation, cultural capital and objectivity. It was curated by jill moniz. Gonzales-Day's work considers the historical construction of race and the limits of representational systems, such as photographs of lynchings and museum displays. His book "Lynching in the West: 1850-1935" expanded our understanding of racialized violence in the United States through the discovery of photographs of lynchings of Latinos, Native Americans, Asians and African-Americans in California. His work has been the subject of solo or two-person exhibitions at museums such as the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. On the second segment, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts chief curator and director of programs Rachel Adams previews "Celebrating Tony Conrad," a two-day online streaming festival honoring and highlighting Conrad's collaborations with musicians and performers from around the world. The event streams from the Bemis YouTube page on May 27 and 28 at 5 pm ET. Conrad was a pioneering experimental media artist whose work, beginning in the early 1960s, helped initiate ways in which artists have explored audio and video.

Episode No. 498 features artist Ken Gonzales-Day and curator Rachel Adams. Gonzales-Day is among the artists included in "Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA" at the J. Paul Getty Museum. The exhibition opens when Getty Center re-opens on May 25, and will be on view through October 10. "Photo Flux" features pictures by 35 Los Angeles-based artists who challenge ideals related to beauty, representation, cultural capital and objectivity. It was curated by jill moniz. Gonzales-Day's work considers the historical construction of race and the limits of representational systems, such as photographs of lynchings and museum displays. His book "Lynching in the West: 1850-1935" expanded our understanding of racialized violence in the United States through the discovery of photographs of lynchings of Latinos, Native Americans, Asians and African-Americans in California. His work has been the subject of solo or two-person exhibitions at museums such as the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. On the second segment, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts chief curator and director of programs Rachel Adams previews "Celebrating Tony Conrad," a two-day online streaming festival honoring and highlighting Conrad's collaborations with musicians and performers from around the world. The event streams from the Bemis YouTube page on May 27 and 28 at 5 pm ET. Conrad was a pioneering experimental media artist whose work, beginning in the early 1960s, helped initiate ways in which artists have explored audio and video.

Ken Gonzales-Day, Tony Conrad

An interview with Ken Gonzales-Day conducted 2020 July 31, by Josh Franco, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project, at Gonzales-Day's studio in Los Angeles, California. Read the full transcript at http://s.si.edu/Gonzales-Day_POHT​ and learn more at http://s.si.edu/pandemic

An interview with Ken Gonzales-Day conducted 2020 July 31, by Josh Franco, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project, at Gonzales-Day's studio in Los Angeles, California. Read the full transcript at <a href="http://s.si.edu/Gonzales-Day_POHT​" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://s.si.edu/Gonzales-Day_POHT​</a> and learn more at <a href="http://s.si.edu/pandemic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://s.si.edu/pandemic</a>

Interview with Ken Gonzales-Day

Ken Gonzales-Day lives and works in Los Angeles. He received an MFA from UC Irvine, and an MA in Art History from Hunter College (C.U.N.Y). His 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. Searching for California Hang Trees series offered a critical look at the legacies of landscape photography in the West while his most recent project considers the origins of racial profiling. Profiled began as an exploration of the influence of eighteenth century "scientfic" thought on twenty-first century institutions from the prison to the museum, with an emphasis on the historical and artistic construction of difference. September 23, 2010

Ken Gonzales-Day: From Lynching Postcards to Portrait Busts - Two Recent Projects