Dana Washington-Queen is a writer and artist based in Oakland, California.

Working across analog photography, video, and mixed media installation, their formal experiments collapse documentary, cinema, and spoken word performance to push against the boundaries of storytelling and traditional filmmaking. Their work is grounded in black studies, black feminism, and black/queer anthropology to reposition and center connected experiences within black and LGBTQ communities.

In 2022, Washington-Queen received the Marciano Art Foundation x Artadia Los Angeles award, funding their training as a barber. In 2024, they earned professional licensure, expanding their research and mediamaking practice with the inclusion of barbering.

Their work has been exhibited at the ICA at Virginia Commonwealth University, Visible Records, MCA San Diego, Jeffrey Dietch, Art+Practice, Springsteen Gallery, New Wight Gallery, and ICA San Diego. They’ve received festival selections from BlackStar, Smithsonian African American Film Festival, OUTFEST Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival, and Toronto Short Film Festival.

Washington-Queen is the owner of Poetic Shifts, a single-chair barber studio offering haircuts for artists, allies, and queer professionals.