Ken Gonzales-Day, Urban Excavation: Ancestors, Avatars, Bodhisattvas, Buddhas, Casts, Copies, Deities, Figures, Funerary Objects, Gods, Guardians, Mermaids, Metaphors, Mothers, Possessions, Sages, Spirits, Symbols, and Other [LACMA] Objects, 2026 Ken Gonzales-Day, Urban Excavation: Ancestors, Avatars, Bodhisattvas, Buddhas, Casts, Copies, Deities, Figures, Funerary Objects, Gods, Guardians, Mermaids, Metaphors, Mothers, Possessions, Sages, Spirits, Symbols, and Other [LACMA] Objects, 2026 Ken Gonzales-Day, Afterlife, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 2025 Ken Gonzales-Day, Reflection, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 2025 Ken Gonzales-Day: History's "Nevermade", curated by Amelia Jones, USC Fisher Museum of Art, 2025 Ken Gonzales-Day, History's "Nevermade," curated by Amelia Jones, USC Fisher Museum of Art, 2025 Ken Gonzales-Day, History's "Nevermade," curated by Amelia Jones, USC Fisher Museum of Art, 2025 Ken Gonzales-Day, Decolonial Drawings, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 2022 Ken Gonzales-Day, Sharing Space, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 2022 Ken Gonzales-Day, Nightfall I, 2006, Form Forward: Brett Weston and Photographers of Things Unseen, Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, 2022 Unseen: Our Past in a New Light Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 2018 Unseen: Our Past in a New Light Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 2018 Ken Gonzales-Day, The Bone-Grass Boy: The Secret Banks of the Conejos River, Getty PST LA/LA & Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 2017 Ken Gonzales-Day, Run Up, 2015, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 2015 Ken Gonzales-Day, Searching for California Hang Trees series, Encuentro Internacional de Medellin (MDE11), Colombia, 2011 Ken Gonzales-Day, Untitled (Antico, Bust of Young Man, Harwood, Bust of a Man, J. Paul Getty Collection, Los Angeles, Comissioned by MAK Center, W.H., 2010 Ken Gonzales-Day, The Wonder Gaze (Lynching of Thurmond and Holmes, San Jose, CA 1933), erased lynching series, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2009

Exhibitions (opens in new tab)

Center for Contemporary Art: “Looking Away” Celje, Slovenia (upcoming)

11 Sept – 15 Nov 2026

Scripps: An Artistic Legacy: Scripps at 100 (upcoming)

Sept. 19-Dec. 13, 2026

Samuel Bak Museum: Past, Present, Futures (upcoming)

Aug 19 – Dec 20, 2026

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LDJ: Major acquisition by the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Aug 13, 2026

Fortress Press: Lynching in the United States

August 2026

OUT: A queer tour of LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries

Jul 30, 2026

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The Practice

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.

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Gonzales-Day is represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles where he has had six solo exhibitions, the most recent in 2025. Visit luisdejesus.com

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Gonzales-Day's work is included in a wide range museum and university collections. Recent acquisitions include Yale, MoMA, LACMA, MOCA, Getty, & National Gallery, among others.

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