Sheilah Wilson ReStack + Dani Leventhal ReStack - House Becomes You
Opening Reception August 16Wellfleet
August 16 – October 6, 2018
Sheilah Wilson ReStack (b. 1975, Caribou River, Nova Scotia) lives and works in Columbus, Ohio, where she is currently Associate Professor of Photography and Video at Denison University. Wilson ReStack creates photography-based, multimedia installation, performance and video works that present conceptual considerations of the body within the bewildered paradigm of maternal and familial structures. With frequent collaborator Dani Leventhal ReStack, Wilson ReStack explores the radical benevolence of love and chosen family with an empathic gaze that does not shy away from brutality. A graduate of the Studio Arts Practice MFA program at Goldsmiths College, London, Wilson ReStack is the recent recipient of Brown University's Howard Foundation Fellowship for Photography. She has exhibited her work most recently at Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL (with Dani [Leventhal] ReStack); the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (with Dani [Leventhal] ReStack); and at Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York.
BORN
1975 Caribou River, Nova Scotia, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
BUILD YOUR ALTAR, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2013
If Becoming This, Antioch University, Yellow Springs, OH, USA
a line drawn continuously and without looking, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2012
Memory Translation Machine, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA
2011
Memory Translation Machine, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
you are my favorite photograph, Denison Museum, Granville, Ohio
2010
this is only one of the possible redemptions, Through the Flower, Belen, New Mexico
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
House Becomes You, with Dani Restack at Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, USA
2017
Repeat Pressure Until, Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA (curator)
Stack for Carrington’s Hyena, collaborative show with Dani Leventhal, Iceberg Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Stack, Columbus Museum of Art, with Dani Leventhal, Columbus, OH, USA
SOTD, (Strangely Ordinary This Devotion), premier screening, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
2016
Shameless Light, Dani Leventhal and Sheilah Wilson, Lyric Theatre, Carizozzo NM, USA
Repeat Pressure Until, Ortega y Gasset Projects, New York, NY, USA (curator)
East is the New West, curated by Sophia Bartholomew, Vancouver Art/Book fair, Vancouver, Canada
Satellite Squared, Migrational Methods & a Romantic Gonzo Gesture, curated by Zahar Vaks, Satellite Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Always Already Here, curated by Joshua Bienko, Ortega y Gasset Booth at Baltimore Art Fair, Baltimore, MD, USA
Doing it Our Way, group show curated by Pan Wendt and Amish Morrell, Confederation Arts Centre, Prince Edward Island, Canada
2015
Tightened: As if by Pliers, curated by Leeza Meksin and Joshua Bienko, Knockdown Center, Queens, New York, NY, USA
Earthwerks and Other Celestial Familiars, Ortega y Gasset, Sidecar, Hammonds, IN, USA
Pictou Island Portage, curated by Eryn Foster, Nova Scotia, Canada
Body as Omen, curated by Sheilah Wilson. Ortega y Gasset Projects, Bushwick, New York, NY, USA
2014
The Fixed Shadow, Jurors Carol Panaro-Smith and James Hajicek, Wright State University, Ohio.
DESPAIR/DESPAIR NOT, Installation for Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
RELAY RELAY, group inaugural show of founding members of Ortega y Gasset Projects, Bushwick, New York, NY, USA
Almost Metal Collective, Columbia College A + D Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2013
SPE Midwest Members Exhibition, Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center. Curated by Catherine Evans, curator Columbus Museum Art, Columbus, OH, USA
W(here), curated by Mary McDonald, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada
Melting Snow by Hand and other Minor Miracles, Queen Elizabeth Park, Masterton, New Zealand
Brevity of all things pure, Featherston Seen window project, Featherston, New Zealand
Ephemeral Traces, curated by Claudia Arzqueta, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2012
NPS Artists, curated by Kay Flavell, Mt. Pukaha, Masterton, New Zealand
Courage, storefront, River John festival days, Nova Scotia, Canada
2011
Time Sensitive, Ohio State University Urban Art Space, Juried by Ola Stahl, Columbus, OH, USA
Ohio Art League Juried show, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Juried by Christopher Bedford, curator Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
Cluster Balloons: from Lawn Chairs to Cosmic Rays, Albuquerque Balloon Museum, Curated by Marilee Nasson, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Image Ohio, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Juried by Michael Stickrod, Columbus, OH, USA
2010
Ohio Art League Juried Show, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Juried by Lisa Dent, curator at Columbus Museum of Art,C olumbus, OH, USA
Roy G Biv 20th Anniversary, Juried by Christopher Lynn, director of SPACES, Columbus, OH, USA
Terminal Video Festival, curated video show, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, USA
Small Scale Big Ambition, 3 person show with Andy Weber and Emily Hall, Rutgers University, Brunswick, NJ, USA
The Crying Lucky Horseshoe, faculty show, Saint Mary's College Moreau Gallery, Notre Dame, IN, USA
Commission from Site Santa Fe for installation on night of New Years Eve, Santa Fe, NM, USA
SCREENINGS + PERFORMANCES
2018
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, IL, USA
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Romania
Jeonju International Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea
Images Film Festival, curated by Aily Nash Toronto, Canada
2017
Wexner Visiting Filmmaker (Shamelss Light, Performance, screening Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (SOTD), Q&A with Christ Stults, Columbus, OH, USA
Toronto International Film Festival; Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (SOTD), Wavelengths, curated by Andrea Picard, Toronto, Canada
Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (SOTD), Berwick-upon-Tweed, United Kingdom
Athens International Film Festival Juror Screening SOTD and Shameless Light performance, Athens, Greece
Whitney Biennial, premiere of Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (SOTD), New York, NY, USA
AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
2017
Nomination for Queer Arts Award for Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (SOTD)
Dension University Research Funding for Mother Mother, Volume II
Annex Residency, Maine
Howard Foundation Fellowship in Photography, Brown University, RI
2016
Headlands Center for the Arts Residency
Carizozo Artist Residency
2015
Ohio Art Council Individual Excellence Photography Grant
Denison University Research Funding for work creation Sweetly the Pilgrim / Slowly the Way
2014
Denison University Research Funding for work creation for Pictou Island Portage
Struts Ok Quoi invitational artist in residence, New Brunswick, Canada
2013
Denison University Research Funding for BUILD YOUR ALTAR
2012
Canada Council Project Grant
NSCAD Artist in Residency
Full Tilt Residency, Newfoundland, Canada
2011
Banff Centre Thematic Residency “There’s something in the Water” with Adam Chodzko, Simon Starling and Martin Clark. Scholarship award.
2010
Renee Steidel award for OAL Juried Show. Selection by Christopher Bedford from Wexner Center for the Arts.
DURF (Denison University Research Funding) for ‘Songs Worth Singing’.
2009
Canada Council Travel grant for “this is only one of the possible redemptions”
2008
New Pacific Studio Residency, Wairapa, New Zealand.
2008
Winner of the Judy Chicago, Through the Flower Foundation 'Feminists Under 40' competition.
2006
Recipient of Creative Capital Foundation grant for career development, New Mexico.
2004
Three time recipient of the Nova Scotia Talent Trust (2004, 2003, 2002)
EDUCATION
Goldsmiths College, MFA Studio Arts, London, United Kingdom, 2004
NSCAD University, BFA Photography Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2003
Instituto Allende, Photography Certificate, San Miguel, Mexico, 1999
Mount Allison University, BA Honours English and French, New Brunswick, Canada, 1998
https://www.sheilahwilsonrestack.com/
Gaa Gallery - Wellfleet is pleased to present an exhibition of collaborative works by Dani & Sheilah ReStack. Please join us for the opening reception on August 16 from 6 - 8 pm. The exhibition will run through October 6.