Dana Washington-Queen

April 22nd- June 18th, 2022

Dana Washington-Queen (they/them) is a nonbinary writer, photographer, and film/video artist based in Long Beach, California. They use narrative through text, image, poetry performance, and video to explore blackness, cultural/knowledge production, and systems of power. They received a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from UC San Diego, and a Bachelor of Arts: English-Rhetoric and Composition from California State University, Long Beach.

Their work has been exhibited at Jeffrey Deitch, Art+Practice, Springsteen Gallery, 98 Orchard, and San Diego Art Institute (now ICA San Diego). Their films and videos have received festival selections from BlackStar Film Festival, Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival, DTLA Film Festival, Toronto Short Film Festival, and Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival.

As a former athlete, they have an awareness of the position of human bodies in a space, how they interact with others, and how they respond to an environment. Sports request a level of intellect and skill, but also instinct and an ability to improvise while under duress. They are developing Black Noetic theory as a study on embodied and cognitive knowledge through figurations of blackness, knowing, and being. Black Noetic theory as a concept and practice considers the features of Black life and Black queer lives on the margins, and attempts to organize the linkages between experiential knowledge and experimental modes of production.

Future/Elsewhere: Dreams Are Transitory Things

An exhibition by dana washington-queen presents an installation of text, video, photographs, and objects that reflect on the tensions between the imagined and external reality.

More info about them: https://blacknoetic.com/

@danawqueen