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
2023 International Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois
Courtisaine Festival, Ghent, Belgium
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 Lightbox Cinema, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York
Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
Images, Toronto Film Festival, Canada
2017 VIDEONALE, Bonn, Germany
Whitney Biennial 2017, NYC
Wavelengths, Toronto Film Festival, Canada
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, United Kingdom
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
2023 Slow Dance (2), Stadtgalerie Bern, Switzerland
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
2016 Ortega y Gassett, Repeat Pressure Until, Brooklyn, New York
Pobre Diablo Gallery, Spatial Relations, Quito, Ecuador
Gaa Gallery, Summertime, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
PERFORMANCES
2023 Drawing the Words, Dirty Dungarees, Columbus, Ohio
2016-23 Shameless Light:
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, 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
Cipher, collaboration with Samita Sinha, The Kitchen, NYC
Cipher, collaboration with Samita Sinha, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
RESIDENCIES / COMMISSIONS / AWARDS
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
2023 Associate Professor of Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
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 Anita Wetzel Residency Award
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 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 Visiting Artist, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Visiting Artist, Columbia University MFA Program, NYC
Visiting Artist, The New School, NYC
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, NYC
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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cuts in the Day, Abundant Art by Amy Melling, 2022
If A Bear Knocks on the Door, Maggie Nelson, File Note for Camden Arts Center, 2022
Cuts in the Day by Matthew Wayne Parkins for MAP Magazine, 2022
Conversations: Camden Art Center, Dani & Sheilah Restack in conversation with Daria Khan, 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, 2022
Interview: Dani and Sheilah ReStack, Film Comment, Genevieve Yue, 2022
Try Stack, Again Stack, Dream Stack, Leon Hosl, ArtLine online publication, 2022
Stack for Martha’s Sisters interview by Collette Copeland, Glasstire, 2021
Dani & Sheilah, FemFlex Film Archive, 2021
Familiar Yet Strange Projections Shorts NYFF, Ela Bittencourt, Hyperallergic, 2019
Public Intimacies, Theresa Wang, Comparative Media Arts Journal, 2018
Beneath the Festival, TIFF, Phil Coldiron, Brooklyn Rail, 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, Chris Stults, Experimental Response Cinema, 2015
Contact Sheet 177, Anneka Herre, Light Work Annual, 2014
54 Days this Winter 36 Days this Spring for 18 Minutes, The Rusty Toque, 2014
Alumni Spotlight: Dani Leventhal, interview with Jenn Bratovich, Women’s Studio Workshop, 2014
Hide and Seek, Genevieve Yue, Museum of the Moving Image, Reverse Shot, 2013
VDB Asks…Dani Leventhal, Brigid Reagan, Video Data Bank, 2012
Synchronize Your Senses, Michael Sicinski, Mike Hoolboom, 2012
The Multitude of Visible Things: The Videos of Dani Leventhal, Chris Stults, CinemaScope issue 47, 2011
I Want the Work to Be Useful, James Cole, Idiom, 2010
The New York Five, Rachel Wolff, New York Magazine, 2010
Dani Leventhal: Everyday Intuition, Rachel Wetzler, Inside/Out, MoMA PS1, 2010