Gaa Gallery at Code Art Fair 2018
Copenhagen
August 30 – September 2, 2018
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. Culling from her own life and the lives of those around her, Leventhal’s images are challenging, unnerving, and tender. Her video work has recently screened at the 2017 Whitney Biennial; Rotterdam International Film Festival; NYFF Projections; Oberhausen; The Ann Arbor Film Festival; UnionDocs; PS1; The Nightingale; Everson Museum; and Anthology Film Archives. Leventhal 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 and the Museum of Modern Art, and she lives in Ohio, where she is Professor of Drawing at The Ohio State University.
BORN
1972, Columbus, Ohio, USA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Fires, Radclyffe Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
2018
House Becomes You, with Sheilah Wilson ReStack, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, USA
Quill Isn't Staying Now, two-person exhibition with Erin Woodbrey, Gaa Projects, Cologne, Germany
2016
Carousel, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Summertime, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, USA
Repeat Pressure Until, Ortega y Gassett, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Myths of the Academy, Hopkins Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA
Spatial Relations, Pobre Diablo Gallery, Quito, Ecuador
Bewilderment and Other Queer Lions, The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2015
Deeper Structures, The Vault, Cleveland, OH, USA
Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, USA
Video Data Bank, VDB TV, Chicago, IL, USA
Perspective: Selections from the Permenant Collection, Light Work Gallery, Syracuse, NY, USA
Borden Capalino & Dani Leventhal, Eli Ping Frances Perkins Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Rough Edges Women Artists and the Collegiate Press, Thompson Library, Columbus, OH, USA
2014
She Left Before I Was Ready, Canzani Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Cipher, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
Cipher, The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA
Silence Unbound, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, USA
Cipher, TBA Festival, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, USA
2013
Additions New Faculty Show, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH, USA
Personal Space, Denison Museum, Granville, OH, USA
Cats & Dogs, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Fergus Fellows, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH, USA
2012
Visiting Artists & Lecturers Exhibition, Swing Space Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA
Duke & Battersby, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
B-Out, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2011
Exquisite Corpse Pose, Elisabeth Ivers Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Archival Impulse, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL, USA
Productive Steps, Mount Tremper Arts Festival, Mount Tremper, NY, USA
Mouthing (the Sentient Limb), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Feelings, Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cutters, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Ireland
Cutters, Gestalten Space, Berlin, Germany
2010
Greater New York 2010, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY, USA
Lush Life, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Us and Them, MRFA Projects, New York, NY, USA
2009
Quizotic, 1717 Troutman, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Peeper Palace, 179 Canal Street, New York, NY, USA
SCREENINGS
2019
Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
2018
Lightbox Cinema, Mothlight, Detroit, Michigan
Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, Maryland
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Iowa City, Iowa
Anthology Film Archives, New York City
Jeonju International Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2017
Whitney Biennial 2017, New York, NY, USA
Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival, Ontario, Canada
VIDEONALE, Bonn, Germany
Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH, USA
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick, UK
Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
2016
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
LUX, Glasgow, Scotland
Cinema of France Institute, Prague
Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland
International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL, USA
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Bad Feminism, Dunlop Gallery, Regina, Canada
2015
French Institute Cinema 35, Prague, Czech Republic
Strutts Gallery, New Brunswick, Canada
Projections, New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, USA
Union Docs, New York, NY, USA
Passegen Stadtkuratorin, Hamburg, Germany
MASS Gallery, Austin, TX, USA
Dallas Medianale Video Festival, Dallas, TX, USA
2014
Artists Choice: Paul Chan, Schaulager, Switzerland
This Red Door, New York, NY, USA
International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL, USA
The Nightengale, Chicago, IL, USA
Otras Obras Art Gallery, Tijuana, Mexico
2013
Lincoln Center Film Society, New York, NY, USA
New York Film Festival - Views from the Avant Garde, New York, NY, USA
Urban Video Project, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, USA
Michael Thibault Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, Chicago, IL, USA
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA, USA
The Cinematic Event, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY, USA
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL, USA
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Buffalo State University, Buffalo, NY, USA
2012
New York Film Festival - Views from the Avant Garde, New York, NY, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Cinema Project, Portland, OR, USA
Migrating Forms, New York, NY, USA
Museum of Modern Art Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Roots & Culture Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Yale University, New Haven, CT USA
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Skolska 28, Prague, Czech Republic
2011
Participant, New York, NY, USA
LA Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
New York Film Festival - Views from the Avant Garde, New York, NY, USA
Anthology Film Archives, Migrating Forms, New York, NY, USA
Mass Art Film Society, Boston, MA, USA
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, USA
Armory Show & Volta NY, New York, NY, USA
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
2010
New York Film Festival – Views from the Avant Garde, New York, NY, USA
PS1 Greater New York Cinema, New York, NY, USA
BAM Brooklyn Music Academy, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Wexner Center for the Arts, The Box, Columbus, OH, USA
Poetry Project, New York, NY, USA
Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY, USA
EDUCATION
MFA Film & Video - Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA, 2009
MFA Studio Arts - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, 2003
BA - Earlham College, Richmond, IN, USA, 1994
Gaa Gallery Project Space Cologne is pleased to present Quill Isn’t Staying Now, a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Dani (Leventhal) ReStack and Erin Woodbrey. The Gaa Gallery Project Space Cologne is located at Große Brinkgasse 8, 50672 Cologne, with parking available across the street at the Parkhaus Bazaar de Cologne. The opening reception is Saturday, April 14 from 5 - 8 pm. This exhibition runs concurrently with Art Cologne and will be open daily Saturday, April 14 through Monday, April 23, 10 am - 6 pm. Closed Wednesday, April 18. Open by appointment April 24 - June 30.
Please join us on Friday, June 30, for an artist talk and discussion with visual artist Dani Leventhal. Reception and talk from 6 - 9pm at Gaa Gallery Provincetown, 494 Commercial Street.
Gaa Gallery Provincetown is pleased to present Pine Forest, a solo exhibition of work from Dani Leventhal, an Ohio-based visual artist who works in video, installation, and drawing. Pine Forest opens Friday, May 26 from 6 - 9 pm at 494 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA, and runs through Monday, July, 10. On Friday June 30, the gallery will host an artist talk with Leventhal.
Congratulations to Dani Leventhal, whose work will be included in the upcoming Whitney Biennial, where she will screen her videos, Platonic, Hard as Opal (co-directed by Jared Buckhiester) and Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (co-directed by Sheilah Wilson). Dani Leventhal will have a solo exhibition in our Provincetown space from May 26 - July 11.
Gaa Gallery Wellfleet is pleased to announce the upcoming group exhibition, Summertime, featuring the work of Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Rodney Dickson, Thoralf Knobloch, Dani Leventhal, Martin Mannig, Gail Marks, Barry Stone, Erika Wastrom, and Erin Woodbrey. Please join us on Saturday, May 28 from 6 - 8pm for an opening reception. Summertime will be up May 28 - June 29.
