Photo by Jaqueline Barragán-Fuller
dana w-queen (b. 1985) is a filmmaker/video artist and barber based in Richmond, Virginia.
They are developing research and projects using documentary, cinema performance about the
discursive history of barbering, gendered language and queer hair expression, black women and black queer barbers, and musicality in barber performance.
w-queen has a MFA in Visual Art from UC San Diego and a BA in English from California State University, Long Beach. They are an adjunct professor teaching experimental video and documentary film production courses at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond.
Courtesy of the 2022 Artadia Los Angeles x Marciano Art Foundation award, dana w-queen completed barber training at a Virginia-state licensed academy. They hope to open Poetic Shifts, a gender inclusive space for haircuts and organic conversations about art, culture and hair. The barber studio is tucked inside a historic tobacco warehouse on Richmond’s Southside.
To learn more about my art and barber practice, book a studio visit with me: here!
w-queen has a MFA in Visual Art from UC San Diego and a BA in English from California State University, Long Beach. They are an adjunct professor teaching experimental video and documentary film production courses at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond.
Courtesy of the 2022 Artadia Los Angeles x Marciano Art Foundation award, dana w-queen completed barber training at a Virginia-state licensed academy. They hope to open Poetic Shifts, a gender inclusive space for haircuts and organic conversations about art, culture and hair. The barber studio is tucked inside a historic tobacco warehouse on Richmond’s Southside.
To learn more about my art and barber practice, book a studio visit with me: here!