Dani + Sheilah ReStack
Dani and Sheilah ReStack have embarked on an artistic relationship that is formally and emotionally adjacent to their domestic lives, a quotidian zone they share with their daughters Rose and Sky. Both artists have established careers on their own. Neither Dani’s video work or Sheilah’s multimedia performance and installation work could exactly prepare us for the force of the women’s collaborative efforts. – Michael Sicinski, Cinema Scope, 2017.
ReStack collaborations have shown at the Camden Arts Centre, London, UK; 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York, NY; Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL; Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada; Images Film Festival, Toronto, Canada; Leslie Lohman Project Space, New York, NY; Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA; New York Film Festival, New York, NY; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Camden Arts Centre, London; Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, among others. They have received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, UnionDocs NYC and Visual Studies Workshop. They have been residents at the Headlands, Visual Studies Workshop and MacDowell. They have created the Feral Domestic trilogy from 2017-2021 (Strangely Ordinary This Devotion, Come Coyote and Future From Inside) and published an accompanying text with Visual Studies Workshop in 2022. In 2024 and 2025 the ReStacks' work is featured in exhibitions at the Inter Media Art Institute, Düsseldorf, Germany, Curated by Nele Kazmareck; The Blue Building Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Gaa, New York, NY; Videonale.20, Bonn, Germany, Curated by Kat Lawinia Gorska, Kathrin Jentjens, und Tasja Langenbach; and nw9, Cologne, Germany.
Dani (Leventhal) Restack (b. 1972, Columbus, Ohio) is a multidisciplinary artist whose tactile videos and works on paper investigate sensorial and emotional states via juxtaposition and the intersection of individual stories. Drawing from her own life and the lives of those around her, Leventhal ReStack’s images are challenging, unnerving, and tender. Her work has been featured in screenings and exhibitions at the Camden Arts Centre, London, UK; Whitney Biennial, New York, NY; Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands; NYFF Projections, New York, NY; Oberhausen , Germany; The Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MY; UnionDocs; MoMA PS1, New York, NY; The Nightingale, Chicago, IL; Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; and Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY. Leventhal ReStack is the recipient of a Wexner Film/Video Residency Award, the Kazuko Trust, the Eileen Maitland Award and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Visual Arts Grant. In 2003, she received an MFA in sculpture from the University of Illinois at Chicago and in 2009 an MFA in film/video from Bard College. Her drawings are in the permanent collection of Yale University, the Museum of Modern Art, and others. Leventhal ReStack lives in Columbus, Ohio, where she is Professor of Drawing at The Ohio State University.
Sheilah (Wilson) Restack (b. 1975 Caribou River, Nova Scotia) is a visual artist whose work is a feminist investigation into photographic and moving images as one of the possible materials for imagining desire, motherhood, and queer family into the world. Wilson ReStack has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at Camden Arts Center, Columbus Museum of Art, and The British Museum among others. Awards include Nova Scotia Talent Trust recipient, Creative Capital Foundation Scholarship, Canada Council Travel Grant , Denison University Research Funding, Canada Council Project Grant, Howard Foundation Photography Grant, Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence, Union Docs Fellowship. Wilson ReStack’s work has been commissioned for the Museum of Fine Arts of Santa Fe, Balloon Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico, OSU Urban Art Spaces, W(here) Festival in Pictou County, Columbia College Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art, Ross Creek Center for the Arts, Confederation Arts Centre and others. She received a BFA from NSCAD University in 2003 and an MFA from Goldmiths College in 2004.
Wilson ReStack lives in Columbus, Ohio, where she is an Associate Professor at Denison University.