Dani ReStack
EDUCATION
2009 MFA Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
2003 MFA University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1994 BA Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2025
VIDEONALE.20 – Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts, Bonn, Germany
Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Germany
Finite Eyes, Composite: moving Image Agency & Media Bank, Melbourne, Australia
2024
The Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
Videolounge der Stiftung, Dusseldorf, Germany
2023
International Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois
Courtisaine Festival, Ghent, Belgium
Anorak, Berlin, Germany
Queer City Cinema Film Festival, Regina, Canada
Xanadu x Project Space Festival, Berlin, Germany
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2022
Currents, New York Film Festival, NYC
Mills Folly Microcinema, Madison, Wisconsin
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany.
European Media Art Festival № 35, Osnabrück, Germany
Anorak, Berlin, Germany
2021
MoMA, NYC
DreamSong, Minneapolis, Minnesota
FilmFlex, Tampa, Florida
2020
Kassel Documentary Film Festival, Germany
International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Cine de Madrid Documenta-Madrid, Spain
Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2019
DocLisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Mumok Cinema – Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Projections, New York Film Festival, NYC
Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
2018
Anthology Film Archives, NYC
Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
Images, Toronto Film Festival, Canada
2017
Whitney Biennial 2017, NYC
Wavelengths, Toronto Film Festival, Canada
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, United Kingdom
VIDEONALE, Bonn, Germany
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
2016
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom
LUX, Glasgow, Scotland
Cinema of France Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland
International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Anonymous Drawers, Hamburg, Germany
NW9, Cologne, Germany
Visible Records, Charlottesville, Virginia [upcoming]
Anonymous Drawers & Lines Fiction, Kunst Haus Erfurt, Germany
2024
Folds, Project ARTspace, NYC
Feral Domestic, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
I AM The First Lesbian I Ever Met, Circulating Copies, Inter Media Arts Institute, Dusseldorf, Germany
Susan’s Sword, The Blue Building, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
YLGLUGY- inaugural exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
Anonymous Drawers & Lines Fiction, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Backwards Shhh, Gaa Gallery, New York City
2023
Slow Dance (2), Stadtgalerie Bern, Switzerland
Wake, Sleep, Dream at Beeler Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
50th Anniversary Selected Works, Lightwork, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
2022
Cuts In The Day, Camden Art Center, London, England
Draw the Ground Before the Sky, Haus Zur Liebe, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Feral Domestic, Kunstverein, Nürnberg, Germany
2021
Ask the Giant Panda, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Stack for Martha’s Sister,TCU Contemporary, Ft. Worth, Texas
Tourism, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
Tourism, Stadtgalerie Bern, Switzerland
2020
Bells, ACUD Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Dani ReStack, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2019
Fires, Radclyffe Hall, Glasgow, Scotland
2018
A Slight Ache, Chapter Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
A Slight Ache, Cabinet Gallery, London, England
Quill is Leaving Now, Gaa Gallery, Cologne, Germany
The House Becomes You, collaboration with Sheilah ReStack, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
2017
Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Stack for Carrington's Hyena, collaboration with Sheilah ReStack, Iceberg Project Space, Chicago, Illinois
Stack, collaboration with Sheilah ReStack, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
PERFORMANCES
2023
Drawing the Words, Dirty Dungarees, Columbus, Ohio
’16-‘24 Shameless Light:
Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
The British Museum, London, England
Camden Art Center, London, England
Mimosa House, London, UK
Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Texas
Leslie Lohman Prince Street Project Space, NYC
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Athens International Film Festival, Athens, Ohio
Lyric Theater, Carrizozo, New Mexico
2015
Bewilderment and Other Queer Lions, collaboration with Samita Sinha, The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, New York
2014
Cipher, collaboration with Samita Sinha:
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
The Kitchen, NYC
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
RESIDENCIES / COMMISSIONS / AWARDS
2025
Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva Island, Florida
Ohio Arts Council, Individual Excellence Award, Columbus, Ohio
I Am The First Lesbian I Ever Met, New Works Commission, Videonale, Bonn, Germany
Ohio State University Arts & Humanities Grant for Exhibition and Travel
2024
Stovepipe to the Sun, Production Residency, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
I Am The First Lesbian I Ever Met, Public Art Commission, Inter Media Arts Institute, Dusseldorf, Germany
2023
Stovepipe to the Sun, Production Grant, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
2022
Feral Domestic, artist book commission, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
2021
Greenwoods 2058 Residency, Norfolk, Connecticut
Visual Studies Workshop Residency, Rochester, New York
2020
Wexner Center for the Arts, Cinetracts video commission, Columbus, Ohio
2019
UnionDocs UNDO Fellowship, NYC
Cove Park Residency, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
2018
McDowell Artist Residency, Petersboro, New Hampshire
Hanley Award, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio
2016
Greater Columbus Arts Council Fellowship, Columbus, Ohio
Headlands Center for the Arts Residency, Marin County, California
Carrizozo Artist Colony, Carrizozo, New Mexico
Ohio State University Arts and Humanities International Travel Grant, Columbus, Ohio
2015
Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, Vermont
Ann Arbor Film Festival Eileen Maitland Award, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2013
Kazuko Trust Grant, Lincoln Center Film Society, New York, New York
Urban Video Project (UVP)/Light Work, Artist in Residence Award, Syracuse, New York
EMPLOYMENT
2019- Current:
Associate Professor of Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
2024
Documentary on artist/author, Michael Rosen, for the Columbus Jewish Foundation
2023
Documentary on dancer/activist, Mim Chenfeld, for the Columbus Jewish Foundation
2022
Artist Talk with Sheilah ReStack on Collaboration and Conflict, The New School, New York
Artist Talk and Critiques with Mass Art Photography Lecture Series, with Sheilah ReStack.
Women’s Studio Workshop Juror for The Anita Wetzel Residency Award
SAIC Conversations at the Edge, with Zach Vanes
Artist conversation with Maggie Nelson, Fox Hysen and Molly Zuckerman Hartung on occasion of Feral Domestic exhibition at Kunstverein, Nuremburg, Germany
2021
Infernal Grove Study Group, Nocterne, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
CoLAB Virtual Seminar, UnionDocs, New York
Visible Evidence online lecture, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany
2020
Interview with curator Columbus Museum of Art, Tyler Cann on Art Tells Stories
Moderator, Goethe Institute, New York
Visiting Artist, Struts/Faucet Media Arts Center, New Brunswick, Canada
Visiting Artist, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Visiting Artist, School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Visiting Artist, Stanford University, California
Visiting Artist, University of Illinois Chicago
2019
Became Associate Professor of Art at Ohio State University
Visiting Artist, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Visiting Artist, Struts/Faucet Media Arts Center, Time Share Mentorship Program, New Brunswick, Canada
Visiting Artist, Columbia University MFA Program, NYC
Visiting Artist, The New School, NYC
Visiting Artist University Colorado at Colorado Springs
Visiting Artist Residency Program, ACRE, Wisconsin
2018
Voices Lecture Series, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois
Visiting Artist Workshop, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
COLLECTIONS
MoMA, New York, New York
Cinema Project, Portland, Oregon
Light Works, Syracuse, New York
VIDEO DISTRIBUTORS
Video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
V tape, Toronto, Canada
IMAI, Inter Media Art Institute, Dusseldorf, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
Retsoor asks ReStacks, Farewell Transmissions, Across the Wire, 2025
Included in Like Love, Graywolf Press, Maggie Nelson, 2024
Included in Acts of Creation, Thames & Hudson, Hettie Judah, 2024
Included in Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture, Oxford University Press, John Powers, 2024
Stack of and for the ReStacks, Western Front, Jac Renée Bruneau 2024
Dani & Sheilah ReStack by Leeza Meskin, Bomb, Leeza Meksin, 2023
Cuts in the Day, Abundant Art, Amy Melling, London, 2022
If A Bear Knocks on the Door, File Note for Camden Arts Center, Maggie Nelson 2022
Cuts in the Day, MAP Magazine London, Matthew Wayne Parkins, 2022
Daria Khan in conversation with Dani & Sheilah Restack, Mamosa House, 2022
Conversation Kunstverein: ReStacks with Maggie Nelson, Fox Hysen, and Molly Zuckerman Hartung, 2022.
The Banal, the Brutal, and the Beautiful, The Chicago Reader, Kathleen Sachs, 2022
ReStacks in conversation with Amanda Gluibizzi, Brooklyn Rail, Amanda Gluibizzi, 2022
Interview: Dani and Sheilah ReStack, Film Comment, Genevieve Yue, 2022
Try Stack, Again Stack, Dream Stack , ArtLine, Leon Hosl, 2022
Stack for Martha’s Sisters, Glasstire, Collette Copeland, 2021
Dani & Sheilah, FemFlex Film Archive, 2021
Familiar Yet Strange Hyperallergic, Ela Bittencourt, 2019
Public Intimacies, Comparative Media Arts Journal, Theresa Wang, 2018
Beneath the Festival, Brooklyn Rail, Phil Coldiron, 2017
Critics' Picks Artforum, Jason Foumberg, 2017
TIFF 2017 Correspondence #6, Kelley Dong, Mubi, 2017
SOTD Dani Leventhal & Sheilah ReStack Wavelengths Interview with Michael Sicinski, CinemaScope, 2017
SOTD, Sarah Hollenberg interviewing Dani Leventhal, Sheilah Wilson, BlackFlash issue 34.1, 2017
Permission to Trespass: The Recent Videos of Dani Leventhal, Experimental Response Cinema, Chris Stults, 2015
Contact Sheet 177, Light Work Annual, Anneka Herre, 2014
54 Days this Winter 36 Days this Spring for 18 Minutes, The Rusty Toque, 2014
Alumni Spotlight: Dani Leventhal, Women’s Studio Workshop, Jenn Bratovich, 2014
Hide and Seek, Museum of the Moving Image, Reverse Shot, Genevieve Yue, 2013
VDB Asks…Dani Leventhal, Video Data Bank, Brigid Reagan, 2012
Synchronize Your Senses, Michael Sicinski, Mike Hoolboom, 2012
The Multitude of Visible Things: The Videos of Dani Leventhal, CinemaScope, Chris Stults, 2011
I Want the Work to Be Useful, Idiom, James Cole, 2010
The New York Five, New York Magazine, Rachel Wolff, 2010
Dani Leventhal: Everyday Intuition, MoMA PS1, Rachel Wetzler, 2010