Ken Gonzales-Day – Art

Professor Gonzales-Day received the following press coverage on his current exhibit “UnSeen: Our Past in a New Light, Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar,” on view through Jan. 6, 2019 at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery:

• History unseen: Smithsonian gallery examines overlooked victims of US lynchings

Luis Alonso Lugo, Chicago Sun Times, July 20, 2018;

• Smithsonian gallery explores diversity in US lynchings

Luis Alonso Lugo, AP NEWS, Miami Herald, July 20, 2018;

• Lynching in den USA: Auch der Mob mordet mit System

Marc Neumann, Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG, Zürich, July 13, 2018;

• Reckoning with History: The legacy of lynching in the West

Adam M. Sowards, High Country News, July 13, 2018;

• Titus Kaphar and Ken Gonzales-Day Reveal the Fictions in Depictions

Cara Ober, Hyperallergic, June 14, 2018;

• By removing victims from lynching photos, an artist emphasizes those erased from history

Maria Anderson, Smithsonian Insider, June 5, 2018;

• Two Artists in Search of Missing History A new exhibition makes a powerful statement about the oversights of American history and America’s art history

Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, Apr 04, 2018

His work was included in the 2018-20 Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada.  https://www.vancouverbiennale.com/explore-art/2018-2020-artists/