Rate My Professor Ken Gonzales-Day

Gonzales-Day previously served as Chair of the Art Department from 2006-2008 and 2009-2014, and as Chair of Art and Art History from 2003-2006. His fellowships and awards include the 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, Chercheur Accueilli at the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, COLA Individual Artist Award, Art Matters Grant, Mid-Career Award from the California Community Foundation, Durfee Foundation ARC Grant, Graves Award for the Humanities, Visiting Scholar and Artist-in-Residence at the Getty Research Institute, Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, and Van Lier Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program. Key publications include Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 (Duke University Press, 2006) and Profiled (LACMA, 2011). His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at venues such as Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, the USC Fisher Museum of Art, Yale Center for British Art, and the National Portrait Gallery.