Dani ReStack            CV 2025                                                                                                                               danirestack.com

 

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        Open City Cinema, 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, Saskatchewan, Canada

Xanadu x Project Space Festival, Berlin, Germany

Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 

2022        Currents, New York Film Festival, New York City

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, New York City

DreamSong, Minneapolis, Minnesota   

FilmFlex, Tampa, Florida

 

2020        Kassel Documentary Film Festival, Kassel, Germany

International Film Festival Rotterdam, 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, New York City                                                                                                                                             

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

 

2018        Anthology Film Archives, New York City

Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea

Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania

Images, Toronto Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

2017        Whitney Biennial 2017, New York City

Wavelengths, Toronto Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, United Kingdom

VIDEONALE, Bonn, Germany

Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio

 

2016        Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England

LUX, Glasgow, Scotland

Cinema of France Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland

International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

 

2025        A Filth of Dreams, NW9, Cologne, Germany

                  Return of the Triumphal Mother, Visible Records, Charlottesville, Virginia

                  Anonymous Drawers & Lines Fiction, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

 

2024        Folds, Project ARTspace, New York City

Feral Domestic, Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

                  I AM THE FIRST LESBIAN I EVER MET, 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, 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 Isn’t 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, New York City

Stack for Carrington's Hyena, collaboration with Sheilah ReStack, Iceberg Project Space, Chicago, Illinois

Stack, collaboration with Sheilah ReStack, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

 

PERFORMANCES  

2023     Drawing the Words, Dirty Dungarees, Columbus, Ohio

 

2025 -2016  Shameless Light:

 

Visual Records, Charlottesville, Virginia                                                                                                                                 

Western Front, Vancouver, Canada

The British Museum, London, England

Camden Art Center, London, England

Mimosa House, London, England

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, New York City

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon

 

RESIDENCIES / COMMISSIONS / AWARDS 

2025        Greater Columbus Art Council (GCAC), Funds for Artists

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, British Columbia, 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, New York City

Cove Park Residency, Argyll and Bute, Scotland

 

2018        McDowell Artist Residency, Peterborough, 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 City

Urban Video Project Light Work, Artist in Residence Award, Syracuse, New York

 

EMPLOYMENT

2025        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 City

Artist Talk and Graduate Critiques with Sheilah ReStack Mass Art Photography Lecture Series.

Women’s Studio Workshop Juror for The Anita Wetzel Residency Award

School of the Arts Institute of Chicago (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 City

                  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, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada

                  Visiting Artist, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee

                  Visiting Artist, School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, Illinois

Visiting Artist, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

Visiting Artist, University of Illinois Chicago. Chicago, Illinois

 

2019        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, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada

Visiting Artist, Columbia University MFA Program, New York City

Visiting Artist, The New School, New York City

Visiting Artist University Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado

Visiting Artist Residency Program, ACRE, Steuben, Wisconsin  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

2018        Voices Lecture Series, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

                  Visiting Artist Workshop, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio

 


COLLECTIONS


MoMA, New York City

Cinema Project, Portland, Oregon

Light Work, Syracuse, New York

                                                 


VIDEO DISTRIBUTORS

Video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

V tape, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

IMAI, Inter Media Art Institute, Dusseldorf, Germany

WORK FEATURED IN REVIEWS, ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS

Return of the Triumphal Mother, Brooklyn Rail, Sommer Browning,  July/August 2025

Susan’s Sword, Public 69 Against Oblivion, Maeve Hannah, 2025

Retsoor asks ReStacks,  Farewell Transmissions, Across the Wire, 2025

Like Love, Graywolf Press, Maggie Nelson, 2024

Acts of Creation, Thames & Hudson, Hettie Judah, 2024

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 Meskin, 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 Khanin 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 StrangeHyperallergic, Ela Bittencourt, 2019

Public Intimacies, Comparative Media Arts Journal, Theresa Wang, 2018

Beneath the Festival,Brooklyn Rail, Phil Coldiron, 2017

Critics' PicksArtforum, 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