Angela Washko

In 2014, Creative Time commissioned an essay from Washko on her findings as the self-founded Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft.

She is the first person to ever sell a Vine video.{{Cite web |last=Holt |first=Kris |date=12 March 2013 |title=This is the first Vine art ever sold |url=https://www.dailydot.com/culture/twitter-vine-art-gallery-sold/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412130854/https://www.dailydot.com/culture/twitter-vine-art-gallery-sold/ |archive-date=12 April 2019 |access-date=22 November 2022 |website=Daily Dot}} The video was bought by Dutch art advisor, curator and collector Myriam Vanneschi for $200 at the Moving Image Art Fair. The title, "Tits on Tits on Ikea" was an extension to a Vine selected as a runner-up in a project called "The Shortest Video Art Ever Sold," curated by Marina Galperina and Kyle Chayka, submitted to the #VeryShortFilmFest.

Her video work "Chastity" won the Terminal Award from the Center of Excellence in the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University.{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Barry |date=18 January 2013 |title=Terminal Award: Chastity by Angela Washko |url=http://www.terminalapsu.org/2013/01/18/terminal-award-chastity-by-angela-washko/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517181538/http://www.terminalapsu.org/2013/01/18/terminal-award-chastity-by-angela-washko/ |archive-date=17 May 2022 |access-date=22 November 2022 |website=Terminal |language=en-US}} She was the 2013 to 2014 Recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund Grant for her World of Warcraft performances.{{cite web |title=Franklin Furnace Fund Recipients 2013-14 |url=http://franklinfurnace.org/artists/funded_projects/the_franklin_furnace_fund/fundwinners13_14/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629225317/http://franklinfurnace.org/artists/funded_projects/the_franklin_furnace_fund/fundwinners13_14/ |archive-date=29 June 2021 |website=Franklin Furnace}} In 2020, she was awarded the Creative Capital Award.{{cite web |date=2020 |title=Award Year 2020 |url=https://creative-capital.org/award/awardees/2020/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220906022125/https://creative-capital.org/award/awardees/2020/ |archive-date=6 September 2022 |access-date=22 November 2022 |website=Creative Capital}}

In 2018, she exhibited her new work "The Game: The Game" at the Museum of the Moving Image.{{cite web |date=2018 |title=Installation - The Game: The Game |url=http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2018/01/10/detail/the-game-the-game/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109030012/http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2018/01/10/detail/the-game-the-game/ |archive-date=9 November 2020 |access-date=11 March 2019 |website=Museum of the Moving Image}} The Game: The Game takes the form of a dating simulator, pitting you against six men who are aggressively vying for your attention at a bar. "The Game: The Game" additionally won the 2018 Impact Award at Indiecade.{{Cite web |date=15 October 2018 |title=IndieCade Congratulates 2018 Festival Award Winners news |url=https://www.indiedb.com/groups/indie-devs/news/indiecade-congratulates-2018-festival-award-winners |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318221219/https://www.indiedb.com/groups/indie-devs/news/indiecade-congratulates-2018-festival-award-winners |archive-date=18 March 2022 |access-date=5 December 2018 |website=Indie DB |language=en}}

In 2021, Angela Washko's first feature-length documentary film about Mrs. Kasha Davis and the Rochester drag community, Workhorse Queen, premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival.{{Cite web |last=Berger |first=Laura |date=12 February 2021 |title=Angela Washko Shines a Spotlight on a "RuPaul's Drag Race" Alum in Slamdance Doc "Workhorse Queen" |url=https://womenandhollywood.com/angela-washko-shines-a-spotlight-on-a-rupauls-drag-race-alum-in-slamdance-doc-workhorse-queen/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315233021/https://womenandhollywood.com/angela-washko-shines-a-spotlight-on-a-rupauls-drag-race-alum-in-slamdance-doc-workhorse-queen/ |archive-date=15 March 2022 |access-date=15 October 2021 |website=Women and Hollywood |language=en-US}}

Washko's interdisciplinary practice of performance, video, and installation investigates public opinion regarding proper etiquette, appropriate lifestyle choices, limited gender designations.{{cite web|url=http://ucsdopenstudios.com/2014/artists/angela_washko/ |title=UCSD Open Studios / Angela Washko |website=Ucsdopenstudios.com |access-date=2015-12-29}} She works in mostly online public spaces of contemporary American culture in order to reach a larger audience with a feminist discourse.{{cite web |last=Driever |first=Juliana |date=26 June 2013 |title=Artist Profile: Angela Washko |url=http://badatsports.com/2013/artist-profile-angela-washko/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230195359/https://badatsports.com/2013/artist-profile-angela-washko/ |archive-date=30 December 2019 |access-date=29 December 2015 |website=Bad at Sports |publisher=}} Her work has been exhibited by the Museum of the Moving Image (London) in the National #Selfie Portrait Gallery,{{cite web|url=https://artsy.net/post/editorial-national-number-selfie-portrait-gallery/ |title=National #Selfie Portrait Gallery |website=Artsy.net |date=2013-10-09 |access-date=2015-12-29}} Biennial of the Americas in The World is !Flat, Denver Digerati in Denver, Colorado,{{cite web |url=http://www.denverdigerati.com/node/31/ |title=Denver Digerati |publisher=Denver Digerati |access-date=2015-12-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407112345/http://www.denverdigerati.com/node/31/ |archive-date=April 7, 2014 |url-status=dead }} Transfer Gallery in Brooklyn, New York,{{cite web |author=Alvarez |first=Ana Cecilia |date=22 September 2013 |title=The Artist of gURLS |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/09/22/feminist-online-art-and-the-women-of-gurls.html/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416012321/http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/09/22/feminist-online-art-and-the-women-of-gurls.html |archive-date=16 April 2016 |access-date=29 December 2015 |website=The Daily Beast |publisher=}} and Super Art Moderne Museum: Spamm.{{cite web |url=http://spamm.fr/safari/ |title=Super Art Modern Museum - Spamm - Musee Des Arts Super Modernes / Safari |website=Spamm.fr |access-date=2015-12-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204214852/http://spamm.fr/safari/ |archive-date=February 4, 2014 |url-status=dead }}

She was a contributing writer for Animal NY.{{cite web |title=About - ANIMAL |url=http://animalnewyork.com/about/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220321002244/https://animalnewyork.com/about/ |archive-date=21 March 2022 |access-date=29 December 2015 |website=Animal}}

Washko has organized exhibitions and programs at the University of California, San Diego, New York University, Flux Factory, and Temple University's Tyler School of Art.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} She curates and compiles A Feminist Art Movement Online, an archive of artists, writers, curators, and cultural producers with various practices addressing issues regarding gendered experiences. These practitioners primarily make and/or distribute their work online and contribute to a shift in making the internet a more inclusive space for women and their cultural work.{{cite web|url=http://outofthekitchenarchive.tumblr.com/ |title=A Feminist Art Movement Online |website=Outofthekitchenarchive.tumblr.com |access-date=2015-12-29}} She was the Department Events Coordinator of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego until 2015.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} She has written for dpi Magazine.{{cite web|url=http://dpi.studioxx.org/en/no/28-gendered-cultures-internet/playing-girl-council-gender-sensitivity-and-behavioral-awareness/ |title=Playing A Girl (The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft) | .dpi |website=Dpi.studioxx.org |access-date=2015-12-29}} In 2013 she hosted the podcast "A Cups" with new media artist Ann Hirsch, made possible by the Radiohive collective{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-cups/id664314007/ |title=A Cups by Angela Washko and Ann Hirsch on iTunes |website=iTunes |access-date=2015-12-29}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} in which they interviewed guests such as Nate Hill, Carla Gannis, Chris Gethard, and Genevieve Belleveau. In 2017, she curated the exhibition "Hacking/Modding/Remixing as Feminist Protest" at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.{{Cite web|url=http://www.art.cmu.edu/2017/01/30/professor-angela-washko-curates-hacking-modding-remixing-feminist-protest-miller-gallery-cmu/|title=Professor Angela Washko Curates "Hacking / Modding / Remixing as Feminist Protest" at Miller Gallery{{!}} Carnegie Mellon University|date=2017-01-30|website=School of Art {{!}} Carnegie Mellon University|access-date=2017-02-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301180716/http://www.art.cmu.edu/2017/01/30/professor-angela-washko-curates-hacking-modding-remixing-feminist-protest-miller-gallery-cmu/|archive-date=March 1, 2017|url-status=dead}}

Washko graduated in 2009 from Tyler School of Art of Temple University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting/Drawing/Sculpture.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} She studied at the Post Graduate Apprentice Program at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in 2009.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} She graduated in 2015 with a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}}

2015

• The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft: LIVE, Dixon Place (New York, NY). Presented by Franklin Furnace Archive.{{Cite web |last=Kimball |first=Whitney |date=2015-01-05 |title=This Week's Must-See Art Events: Best Events of 2015 So Far |url=http://artfcity.com/2015/01/05/this-weeks-must-see-art-events-best-events-of-2015-so-far/ |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=Art F City |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Vartanian |first=Hrag |date=2015-01-06 |title=ArtRx NYC |url=http://hyperallergic.com/172967/artrx-nyc-28/ |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}
• Memory Burn, July 10 - August 16, 2016, Bitforms Gallery (New York, NY).{{Cite web|url=http://www.bitforms.com/exhibitions/memory-burn/press-release|title=Memory Burn - Press Release}}

2016

• XXI Triennale International Exhibition: 21st Century Design After Design, Game Video/Art: a Survey, Contemporary Hall Gallery, IULM University (Milan, Italy). Curated by Matteo Bittanti e Vincenzo Trione.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gamevideoart.org/artists/|title=GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY - Artists|website=gamevideoart.org}}{{Cite book|url=http://www.silvanaeditoriale.it/catalogo/prodotto.asp?id=4537|title=GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY|publisher=Silvana Editoriale|year=2016|isbn=9788836634545|editor-last=Bittanti|editor-first=Matteo}}
• The 3rd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Dec 2nd, 2016 - March 2, 2017, C2 Space, OCT-LOFT (Shenzhen, China).{{Cite web|url=https://szx3iab.com/artists/|title=The 3rd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale/Artists|website=szx3iab.com/|date=June 7, 2016 |access-date=April 6, 2017}}
• Performing in Public (Four Years of Ephemeral Actions in World of Warcraft), Gallery@CALIT2 at University of California - San Diego.{{Cite web|url=http://calendar.ucsd.edu/event/performing-in-public-four-years-of-ephemeral-actions-in-world-of-warcraft/|title=Performing in Public (Four Years of Ephemeral Actions in World of Warcraft)|access-date=April 6, 2017}}
• The Game: The Game, Transfer Gallery (New York, NY).{{Cite web|url=http://transfergallery.com/the-game-the-game-angela-washko/|title=Angela Washko. The Game: The Game}}{{Cite web|url=http://transfergallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/FOR-RELEASE_AngelaWashko_TheGameTheGame_with-music-by-XiuXiu.pdf|title=Angela Washko. The Game: The Game - Press Release}}

2017

• The Game: The Game 2.0, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Arts Center (Buffalo, NY). Solo exhibition.{{Cite web |date=2017-10-30 |title=Angela Washko at Squeaky Wheel |url=http://www.dailypublic.com/articles/10302017/angela-washko-squeaky-wheel |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=The Public |language=en}}
• Haunted Machines and Wicked Problems, Impakt Festival (Utrecht, NL).{{Cite web |title=HAUNTED MACHINES & WICKED PROBLEMS EXHIBITION {{!}} IMPAKT |url=https://impakt.nl/events/exhibition/haunted-machines-wicked-problems-exhibition |access-date=2023-02-14 |language=en-US}}
• Nonlinear Perspectives, Gray Area Foundation for Arts and Technology (San Francisco, CA).{{Cite web |title=Nonlinear Perspectives Exhibition at the 2017 Gray Area Festival |url=https://grayarea.org/event/nonlinear-perspectives-exhibition-2017-gray-area-festival/ |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=Gray Area}}
• Survival Rates In Captivity (Free Will Mode #5) (2017), Blinding Pleasures, February 10 - March 18, arebyte Gallery, (London, UK). Curated by Filippo Lorenzin.{{Cite web|url=http://www.arebyte.com/blinding-pleasures/4593457827|title=Blinding Pleasures / Man Bartlett, Angela Washko and Ben Grosser|website=arebyte.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407055400/http://www.arebyte.com/blinding-pleasures/4593457827|archive-date=April 7, 2017|access-date=6 April 2017|url-status=dead}}

2018

• The Game: The Game, Museum of the Moving Image (New York, NY). Solo exhibition curated by Jason Eppink.{{Cite web |date=2016-10-27 |title=NET ART ANTHOLOGY: The Game: The Game |url=https://anthology.rhizome.org/the-game-the-game |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=NET ART ANTHOLOGY: The Game: The Game}}
• Poking The Hive, George Mason University Gallery (Fairfax, VA). Solo exhibition.{{Cite web |last=Kenney |first=Jeff |title=ANGELA WASHKO: POKING THE HIVE |url=https://www.masonexhibitions.org/exhibitions/angela-washko-poking-the-hive |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=Mason Exhibitions |date=May 10, 2022 |language=en-US}}
• States of Play: Roleplay Reality, FACT (Liverpool, UK).{{Cite web |last=Davis |first=Laura |date=2018-03-23 |title=Sickeningly violent exhibition warns visitors to look away |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/work-facts-new-exhibition-sickeningly-14448209 |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=Liverpool Echo |language=en}}
• PlayTime, Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA).{{Cite web |last=DeBianchi |first=Antonia |date=2018-02-07 |title=Peabody Essex Museum to Open "PlayTime" |url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2018/02/07/peabody-essex-museum-playtime/ |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=Boston Magazine |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Boston Covers Art in the Internet Age with Region-Wide Exhibitions |url=https://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/7603-boston-covers-art-in-the-internet-age-with-region-wide-exhibition |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=ArtfixDaily |language=en}}
• Indiecade Festival (Los Angeles, CA).{{Cite news |last=Martens |first=Todd |date=12 October 2018 |title=He said, she squirmed: The pickup artist game that is the talk of IndieCade and may help us communicate better |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-ms-indiecade-20181012-story.html |access-date=14 February 2023}}{{Cite web |title=2018 AWARDS – IndieCade |url=https://www.indiecade.com/awards5/2018-awards/ |access-date=2023-02-14 |language=en-US}}
• Indiecade Europe, Conservatoire National Des Arts et Metiers (Paris, France).{{Cite web |title=Indiecade Europe 2018 |url=https://sprites.fr/2018/10/22/indiecade-europe-2018/ |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=sprites.fr/ |language=fr-FR}}

2019

• Open World: Video Games & Contemporary Art, Akron Art Museum (Akron, OH).

2020

• SITUATIONS / STRIKE, Fotomuseum Winterthur (Zurich, Switzerland).{{Cite web |title=GAME ART: ANGELA WASKHO'S WEAPONIZING COURTSHIP (2020) |url=https://www.gamescenes.org/2020/10/game-art-angela-waskhos-weaponizing-courtship-2020.html |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=GAMESCENES}}

2021

• Point of View, STUK House for Dance, Image, and Sound (Leuven, Belgium). Solo exhibition.{{Cite web |title=Angela Washko: Point of View - Announcements - e-flux |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/373561/angela-washkopoint-of-view/ |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=www.e-flux.com |language=en}}
• GAMExCINEMA, Korean Film Archive (Seoul, South Korea).{{Cite web |title=GAMExCINEMA |url=https://eng.koreafilm.or.kr/cinematheque/programs/PI_01337 |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=Korean Film Archive |language=ko}}
• American Film Festival (Wroclaw, Poland).
• Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, UT).
• Documentary Edge New Zealand (Auckland, New Zealand).{{Cite web |last=Magazine |first=express |date=2021-06-04 |title=On Now! Doc Edge Film Festival - Documenting Life |url=https://gayexpress.co.nz/2021/06/on-now-doc-edge-film-festival-documenting-life/ |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=express Magazine |language=en-US}}
• Bentonville Film Festival (Bentonville, Arkansas).{{Cite web |last=Althoff |first=Eric |date=2021-08-09 |title=BENTONVILLE FILM FESTIVAL : "Waikiki," "A Fire Within," "The First Step," "The High Life" and "Workhorse Queen" - Screen Comment |url=https://screencomment.com/2021/08/bentonville/ |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=screencomment.com |language=en-US}}
• Milwaukee Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI).{{Cite web |date=2021-05-14 |title=Here is the lineup for the 2021 Milwaukee Film Festival |url=https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/2021-milwaukee-film-festival-lineup |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=OnMilwaukee}}
• Florida Film Festival (Maitland, FL).{{Cite web |title=Filmmakers discuss record-breaking diversity at the 2021 Florida Film Festival |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/movies/os-prem-et-florida-film-festival-2021-diversity-20210411-mjhtxx4ncjebnotjwukfmduxwu-story.html |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=Orlando Sentinel|date=April 10, 2021 }}
• TLV Fest (Tel Aviv, Israel).{{Cite web |title=Workhorse Queen {{!}} TLVFest |url=https://tlvfest.com/tlv/he/2021/10/19/workhorse-queen/ |access-date=2023-02-14 |language=en-US}}
• Vancouver Queer Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada).{{Cite web |last=Mullen |first=Pat |date=2021-08-12 |title=Vancouver Queer Film Festival Goes Out and Proud with Sex-Positive Line-up |url=https://povmagazine.com/5879-2/ |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=POV Magazine |language=en-US}}

2022

• Worldbuilding, Julia Stoschek Collection (Düsseldorf, Germany). Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.{{Cite web |date=2022-06-23 |title='WORLDBUILDING' Explores the Intersection of Art and Gaming |url=https://hypebeast.com/2022/6/worldbuilding-exhibition-julia-stoschek-collection |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=Hypebeast}}
• Doc-O-Rama, Portland Art Museum and Northwest Film Center (Portland, OR).{{Cite web |title=PAM CUT's Doc-O-Rama Shines a Spotlight on Queer Performers |url=https://www.wweek.com/arts/2022/09/07/pam-cuts-doc-o-rama-shines-a-spotlight-on-queer-performers/ |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=Willamette Week |date=September 7, 2022 |language=en}}
• Mixed Media: Angela Washko and Lucia Marcucci, Temple University Rome Gallery (Rome, Italy). Two-person exhibition.{{Cite web |last=Artuu |first=Redazione |date=2022-01-28 |title=A Roma la mostra MIXED MEDIA |url=https://www.artuu.it/a-roma-la-mostra-mixed-media/ |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=Artuu Magazine {{!}} L'Arte per i Millennials |language=it-IT}}

• Feminist Art
• New media art
• Video Art
• Performance Art

{{Reflist}}

• {{Official website|angelawashko.com}}
• [http://thegamethegame.org/ The Game: The Game] - Webpage for Washko's project "The Game: The Game"
• [http://workhorsequeen.com Workhorse Queen] - Website for Washko's documentary film "Workhorse Queen"
• {{IMDb title|qid=Q108597863|id=tt13827446|title=Workhorse Queen}}
• [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/workhorse_queen Workhorse Queen: Rotten Tomatoes] - Rotten Tomatoes page for Washko's documentary film "Workhorse Queen"
• [https://creative-capital.org/projects/mother-player/ Creative Capital Award: Angela Washko] - Creative Capital website page for Washko's project "Mother, Player"
• [http://wowongender.tumblr.com/ Gender Sensitivity and World of Warcraft] – Documentation of Washko's WoW Performances

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