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Oct. 30, 2023

In the Media: Claremont Courier Features Two Ken Gonzales-Day Exhibitions

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Oct. 17, 2023

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery Announces New Exhibition, Queer-ish

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Sep. 13, 2023

In the Media: Los Angeles Times Highlights Ken Gonzales-Day’s Work in MOCA Exhibition

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October 30, 2023

In the Media: Claremont Courier Features Two Ken Gonzales-Day Exhibitions

The exhibitions deal with issues of race, queerness, history, and identity.

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October 17, 2023

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery Announces New Exhibition, Queer-ish

Queer-ish highlights Ken Gonzales-Day’s personal collection of 19th- and 20th-century vernacular photographs—snapshots of everyday life and subjects—depicting people who may have identified as LGBTQ+.

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September 13, 2023

In the Media: Los Angeles Times Highlights Ken Gonzales-Day’s Work in MOCA Exhibition

Works from his ongoing series have also been recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and other prestigious museums for their permanent collections.

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June 28, 2023

Museum of Modern Art Acquires Ken Gonzales-Day’s The Wonder Gaze

The work is part of Gonzales-Day’s ongoing Erased Lynchings series, which began with a focus on the history of lynching in California.

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October 14, 2021

In the Media: Jung Fitzpatrick ’01 Discusses Her Photography Career with ShoutoutLA

Jung Fitzpatrick ’01 spoke to ShoutoutLA about photography, making mid-career changes, and her favorite spots in San Francisco. When she was in her mid-30s, Fitzpatrick left her career in nonprofit management to pursue a career in photography.

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September 24, 2021

In the Media: J. Paul Getty Museum Acquires Six Photographs by Ken Gonzales-Day, Beverly Press Reports

The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired six photographs by Ken Gonzales-Day, Fletcher Jones Chair in Art and professor of art, from his Searching for California Hang Trees and Memento Mori series.

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March 2, 2021

Ken Gonzales-Day’s Profiled Project on Display at Playwrights Horizons

Fletcher Jones Chair in Art and Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day’s project, Profiled, is on view at Playwrights Horizons through April 5, 2021.

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December 9, 2020

Core III Students Examine Photographic Truth in Clark Humanities Museum Virtual Exhibition

Subjects/Objects: A Critical Look at Photographic Truth is now on display as a virtual exhibition at the Clark Humanities Museum. Sophomores Gillian Bell, Chloe Boxer, Molly Bradshaw, Madeleine Callan, Margo Collazo, Katie Eu, Anna Horne, Tsion Mamo, Vivian Monteiro, Emma Sar, and Aanya Subramaniam curated the exhibition as part of Fletcher Jones Chair in Art and Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day’s Core III class.

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November 18, 2020

For Computational Photography Students, Rooms Become Cameras—and Zoom Becomes a Subject

“Right from the beginning of this virtual learning period, I thought about how I could work with students to create an academic experience that would be shared, but also personal.”

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February 20, 2020

In the Media: Photograph by Ken Gonzales-Day Now Resides in National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Magazine Reports

Professor of Art and Fletcher Jones Chair in Art Ken Gonzales-Day’s photograph of the Portrait of Shonke Mon-thi^ now resides in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, per Smithsonian magazine. Shonke Mon-thi^ was a priest of the Gentle Sky clan and a member of an Osage delegation that came to Washington, D.C., in 1904 to negotiate the land and mineral rights of his nation.

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