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Ken Gonzales-Day
American conceptual artist
Ken Gonzales-Day | |
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Born | (age6061) Santa Clara, California, US |
Education | University of California Irvine, Hunter College, Pratt Institute |
Knownfor | Photography, conceptual art, installation art, writing, research |
Awards | John S.
Guggenheim Fellowship, California Community Foundation, Creative Capital, National Endowment for the Arts |
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Ken Gonzales-Day (born ) is a Los Angeles-based conceptual artist best known for interdisciplinary projects that examine the historical construction of race, identity, and systems of representation including lynching photographs, museum display and street art.[1][2][3][4] His widely exhibited "Erased Lynching" photographic series and book, Lynching in the West: (),[5] document the absence in historical accounts of the lynching of Latinos, Native Americans and Asians in California's early history.[6]