News:

Gonzales-Day recieves 2012 Creative Capital grant in Visual Arts to continue his Profiled series.

PROFILED is released by LACMA and is distributed by Art Catalogues. Its a limited edition artist's book and the deluxe version comes with a print! Read Avram Finkelstein's take in ARTWRIT, or Holly Meyers "in the Studio" from the Los Angeles Times. See Sharon Mizota's thoughtful review of "Profiled" at Las Cienegas Projects in the Los Angeles Times or Peter Frank's playful Haiku Review in the HuffPost. Works from the series were also included in "COLA 2011" at the Municipal Art Gallery (see Los Angeles Times review) or read Mark Feeney's review of the Tufts exhibition in The Boston Globe or William Owen in The Tufts Daily. Vince Aletti in The New Yorker on the exhibition at Fred Torres Collaborations.

See the journal pros* for essays and responses to the recent exhibition, Silent Witness: Recent Works by Ken Gonzales-Day at UCSD. You can also order Lynching in the West:1850-1935 (Duke) now in its second edition.

Gonzales-Day has an artist's project in fall issue of X-TRA, as well as SuperMassiveBlackHole # 6. Read Deborah Dorotinsky's article on La fisonomia a contrapelo, or look forthe Bone-Grass Boy in the most recent issue of The Josh. You can also explore archived works in the Claremont Colleges Digital Library.

Exhibitions:

"Messerschmidt and Modernity," The Getty Museum, Jul. 24 - Oct. 14, 2012

"STRATA. Current Neo/Post Chicana Photography," PhotoEspana XV, Casa de America, Madrid, May 30 - July 22, 2012

"Making sense: contemporary LA photo artists," Art Gallery NSW, Sydney, Australia, Feb. 11 - May 13, 2012

"Ken Gonzales-Day," Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA. Feb. 11- Apr. 27, 2012

Artist Protest Tower (Mark di Sivero) LAXART/GRI/PST, @ Sunset and Hilldale, Jan. 19-29, 2012

Fred Torres Collaborations@ Pulse-Miami, Dec. 1 - 4, 2011

"Decisive Moments: Uncertain Times," Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON, Oct. 20 - Nov. 20, 2011

"Profiled," Fred Torres Collaborations, New York, NY. Oct. 11, 2011 - Nov. 12, 2011

Fred Torres Collaborations@ Pulse -Los Angeles, Sept. 30 - Oct. 3, 2011

Las Cienegas Projects @ Pulse -Los Angeles, Sept. 30 - Oct. 3, 2011

Profiled book launch, Art Catalogues, LACMA, Sept. 20-27, 2011

"Profiled,"Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA. Sept. 8 - Nov. 20, 2011

Encuentro Internacional de Medellin (MDE11) "Places of Knowledge in Art,"
Sept. 1 - Dec. 31, 2011

Metro Orange Line Extension, Canoga Station (to open 2012)

Lectures:

2012
Feb 24: Panel, How Many Billboards, CAA, 9:30am
Feb 11: Lecture, Vincent Price Art Museum
Jan 15: Keynote Artist Talk: Ken Gonzales-Day, photo l.a., Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 5:00- 6:30pm
Jan 8: moderate, Carleton Watkins panel at Getty (Weston Naef and others), 3 :00pm

2011
Oct 23: Lecture, "Profiled: Race & Whiteness in Sculpture...," in assoc. w/ Five Car Stud 1969-72, LACMA
Oct 15: Scripps College tour/reception @ Fred Torres Collaborations
Oct 14: Tufts University tour/reception @ Fred Torres Collaborations
Oct 12: Lecture in assoc. with Profiled exhibition at Tufts University
Sept 27: CALARTS, Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Sept 20: Book Launch and Signing of Profiled @ Art Catalogues, LACMA
Jun 10: "Conversation with: Mark Dean Veca, Ken Gonzales-Day, Heather Carson," LAMAG
Apr 16: Panel Discussion, "The Fruit of Sorrow, a Dialogue on Violence and Representation," UCSD Art Gallery
Feb 10: "From Physiognomy to Portraiture Panel," CAA Conference, NYC

Untitled (Malvina Hoffman Collection, [left to right] Blackfoot Man, [337236];
Blackfoot Man, [337026]; Brooklyn Man, [336996]; Ainu Man, [336992],
The Field Museum, Chicago.