b. 1985, Buena Park, CALiving and working in Richmond, VA
Contact: atdanawashington@gmail.com
Afrikana Artist Talk: dana washington-queen & Leila Weefur
“The Logic of Poetry and Dreams” guest poet at The Broad
INFO
dana washington-queen (they/them) is a photographer, filmmaker, visual artist, and creative writer based in Richmond, Virginia. They are interested in poetic, experimental and documentary forms to render and celebrate black life, culture, and queerness.
In 2020, they received a MFA in Visual Arts from UC San Diego as a SEED Fellowship recipient. In 2016, they received a BA in English: Rhetoric and Composition from California State University-Long Beach.
Their work has been exhibited and screened throughout North America, including the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Visible Records, Jeffrey Dietch in Los Angeles, Art+Practice, Black Radical Imagination Film Tour, BlackStar Film Festival, OUTFEST Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival, and DTLA Film Festival.
In 2022, washington-queen was the Artadia Los Angeles Marciano Art Foundation award recipient, and received the Foundation for Contemporary Art Ellsworth Kelly award in 2020.
Current interests and research: kinship and fellowship, barbershops as a social institution, queer relationships and community.
PROJECTS
Resume at the Point of Interruption︎︎︎
Black Farm Studio House Co.︎︎︎
EXHIBITIONS
2022
- Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University
- Visible Records
2021
- Springsteen Gallery
- Calit2
- Jeffrey Dietch
2020
- Anonymous Gallery
2019
-
98 Orchard
- New Wight Gallery
- San Diego Art Institute
- Art + Practice
FESTIVALS
2020
- Afrikana Independent Film Festival
2019
- DTLA Film Festival
2018
- Smithsonian African American Film Festival
- Afrikana Film Festival
- BlackStar Film Festival
- OUTFEST Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival
- Toronto Short Film Festival
- Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival
PROGRAMS
2020
- 1708 Gallery: “In Light Richmond”
- Emerson College: “The Afrofuture is Female”
2019
- Fondation d’enterprise Galeries Lafayette: “Lafayette Anticipations x KALEIDOSCOPE”
2018
-
Black Cinema House: “Vol. 4”
-
Black Radical Imagination: “Fugitive Trajectories”
- USC: “Cinematheque 108: Open Letter, Recent Work from California Filmmakers”
- MOCA Los Angeles: “Familiar Unknown: Mysticism in the Present Future”
AWARDS
2022
- Artadia Los Angeles Awardee (Marciano Art Foundation Award)
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts Ellsworth Kelly Award
- University of California San Diego Ennalls Berl ’12 and Waggaman Berl ’17 Senior Thesis Award
- Best Experimental Film & Best Social Justice Short Film, DTLA Film Festival
- University of California San Diego Russell Grant
-
University of California San Diego Black Studies Project Grant
2018
- Bortsch Corp. Short Film Grant
2017
- University of California San Diego Strategic Enhancement of Excellence through Diversity Fellowship
TEACHING
- 2020-2021: Teaching Artist, The AjA Project
- 2019-2020: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Visual Arts, University of California San Diego
PUBLICATION AS AUTHOR
Black Archives
Impulse to Collect Vol. 1 “An Entry Point Between Spaces: Concerning Permission,” November 2020.
PRESS
Hyperallergic
Jasmine Weber, “Week in Review: Awards & Accolades,” October 2020.
San Diego Union-Tribune
Lisa Deaderick, “In New Forging Territories Exhibition, Artist Places Herself in Center of Work and Center of Questioning and Reckoning,” July 2019.
Hyperallergic
Erica Rawles, “The LA Rebellion Filmmakers and Their Continued Relevance 50 Years Later,” April 2019.
Smithsonian African American Film Festival
Jheanelle Brown and Darol Olu Kae. “Notes on a Radical Elsewhere, Black Radical Imagination: Fugitive Trajectories,” 2018.
BlackStar Film Festival
Daniella Rose-King, “Stories Beneath Our Rib Cages: A Review of UNDER BONE and Two Parts Black,” 2018.