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