For Traction: Art Talk, Gonzales-Day will be joined in conversation by Professor Karolina Karlic.

TRACTION: Art Talk with Ken Gonzales-Day and Karolina Karlic
January 14, 2021

Ken Gonzales-Day received his MFA from UC Irvine; MA in Art History from Hunter College; Gonzales-Day has been a Senior Fellow at Smithsonian American Art Museum and at the National Portrait Gallery. His photographs have been exhibited at: The J. Paul Getty Museum; LACMA; The Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery; The New Museum; REDCAT; LAXART; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Generali Foundation, Vienna; Museum of the City, Mexico City, among others. His Books include Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 (Duke) and Profiled (LACMA). Gonzales-Day is The Fletcher Jones Chair in Art at Scripps College and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography in 2017.

Karolina Karlic is an Associate Professor in the Art Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the head of the Photography area. Karlic is a photographer, and creates work that widely addresses the intersection of photography, ethnofiction, and documentary practices, with a focus on systems of labor and industry, globalization, and their impact on the social and environmental landscape. Karlic has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, residencies, and awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2011.)