St. Olaf College

Ken Gonzales-Day

Contemporary artist, photographer
United States
b. b. 1964
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Ken Gonzales-Day was born in 1964 in Santa Clara, California. Gonzales-Day grew up in Northern California and Idaho, but as an adult he moved to New York where he went on to earn his BFA from Pratt Institute in 1987. In 1991 he received his MA from Hunter College, after which he spent a year in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In the mid-90’s, Gonzales-Day moved back to California and attended the University of California, Irvine, to earn his MFA in 1995. Since 1995, Gonzales-Day has taught art at Scripps College in Claremont, California.

Gonzales-Day’s work focuses on race and exploration of identity. He is best known as a photographer, although he has been known to work with other images which he occasionally alters digitally. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Madison Duran ‘20
March 2019

Sources:

“Ken Gonzales-Day.” Ken Gonzales-Day, www.kengonzalesday.com/.
“Ken Gonzales-Day.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 7 June 2018,
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Gonzales-Day.
“Ken Gonzales-Day Faculty Profile.” Scripps College,
www.scrippscollege.edu/academics/faculty/profile/ken-gonzales-day.
“Ken Gonzales-Day: Shadowlands – Minnesota Museum of American Art.” Minnesota Museum
of American Art, www.mmaa.org/shadowlands/.