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Sheilah Wilson ReStack
Born1975
Caribou River, Nova Scotia, Canada.
EducationBFA, NSCAD University
MFA, Goldsmiths College
BA, Mount Allison University
Known forPhotographer, installation artist, videographer and sculptor.
MovementContemporary
Conceptual
Websitesheilahwilsonrestack.com

Sheilah Wilson ReStack (born 1975 Caribou River, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian artist working in photography, sculpture, video and installation. ReStack also works collaboratively with her wife Dani (Leventhal) ReStack.[1][2]

ReStack is an American photographer whose work has been recognized with numerous grants and awards, including the Howard Foundation Fellowship[3] in Photography in 2017. They have received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts,[4] and have been recognized by Judy Flower's Through the Flower Foundation[5] and the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence in Photography.[6]

ReStack's work has been exhibited in solo shows at Interface Gallery ("Hold Hold Spill"),[7] Blue Building Gallery ("Control is Cassandra"),[8] and the Camden Center for the Arts ("Cuts in the Day," a collaboration with Dani ReStack).[9] These exhibitions have been reviewed positively in a variety of publications, including Artforum[10] and Bomb Magazine.[11]

ReStack and Dani ReStack collaborated on a trilogy of films – "Strangely Ordinary This Devotion," "Come Coyote," and "Future From Inside"—that are collectively titled "Feral Domestic." The films were screened at various film festivals and art institutions and received positive critical attention. In an essay for the Camden Arts Center, Maggie Nelson praised the films for their exploration of queer families and their attention to the everyday details of domestic life. A visual text accompanying the trilogy, also titled "Feral Domestic,"[12] was commissioned by the Visual Studies Workshop[13] in Rochester, NY and published in the fall of 2022.

Biography

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ReStack was born in 1975 in Caribou River, Nova Scotia.[14] She graduated from Mount Allison University with a BA in English/French and NSCAD University with her BFA. ReStack then went on to complete her MFA at Goldsmiths College.[15] ReStack teaches, and is Chair of Studio Art at Denison University.[16] In 2017 Dani and Sheilah ReStack's film Strangely Ordinary This Devotion was included in the Whitney Biennial.

Solo exhibitions

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  • 2022: Control is Cassandra at The Blue Building Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia[17]
  • Macaskill, Annick (2020). Text, Image, and Disruption in Sheliah Restack's Control is Cassandra (PDF). Visual Arts News.
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Hold House, Hold Hold Spill at Interface Gallery
  • 2020: Hold Hold Spill at Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA .[18]
  • 2014: If Becoming This at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH[19]
  • 2013: Build Your Altar at Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, NZ[20]

Exhibitions (in collaboration with Dani ReStack)

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  • 2022: Cuts in the Day at Camden Art Centre, London, United Kingdom[21]
  • 2018: House Becomes You at GAA Gallery, Provincetown, MA[22]
  • 2017: Stack for Carrington's Hyena at Iceberg Projects, Chicago [23][24]
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Stack for Carrington's Hyena,Iceberg Projects, 2018 with Dani ReStack
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Rabbit, cement wedge, felt blanket, walking prints, thread, acetate, 2020

Performance

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  • 2012: The Invisible inside the Visible in a rural Nova Scotian community.[25][26]

Filmography (in collaboration with Dani ReStack)

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  • 2022: The Sky's in There (00:11:24min)[27]
  • 2021: Future From Inside (23:59min)[28][29]
  • 2019: Come Coyote (7min)[30][31]
  • 2019: Go Ask Joan[32]
  • 2018: A Hand in Two Ways; Fisted[33]
  • 2017: Strangely Ordinary This Devotion[34][35]

References

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  1. ^ Sandals, Leah (24 December 2018). "A Year in Motherhood". Canadian Art. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  2. ^ Tomlin, Dave. ""Shameless Light" to shine at the Lyric in Zozo". Ruidoso News. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  3. ^ "The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation". Brown. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Bringing the arts to life". Canadacouncil. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  5. ^ "About the Through the Flower". ThroughTheFlower. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  6. ^ "Strengthening investment and engagement in the arts FOR ARTISTS". Oac. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  7. ^ Meksin, Leeza. "Meksin Interview — interface gallery".
  8. ^ "Control is Cassandra".
  9. ^ "Dani and Sheilah ReStack".
  10. ^ Foumberg, Jason. "Dani Leventhal and Sheilah Wilson". Artforum. NewYorkCity. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  11. ^ Meksin, Leeza. "Feral Domesticity: Dani and Sheilah ReStack Interviewed". Bomb. NewYorkCity. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  12. ^ "Feral Domestic: Video Trilogy by Dani and Sheilah ReStack". wpr. 6 September 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  13. ^ "Visual Studies Workshop". VSW. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  14. ^ "Dani Leventhal ReStack + Sheilah Wilson ReStack –". Art Week. 14 August 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  15. ^ "Sheilah ReStack – Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  16. ^ "Sheilah ReStack". Denison University. 12 September 2009. Retrieved 12 September 2009.
  17. ^ "Control is Cassandra".
  18. ^ Meksin, Leeza. "Meksin Interview — interface gallery".
  19. ^ "Sheilah ReStack at Antioch College" (PDF).
  20. ^ Collinson, Olivia. "In the Presence of Presence: the Embodied Souvenir in Sheilah Wilson's Build Your Altar To This Moment". Enjoy.
  21. ^ "Dani and Sheilah ReStack".
  22. ^ "Sheilah and Dani ReStack at Gaa Gallery".
  23. ^ "Sheilah and Dani ReStack at Iceberg Projects".
  24. ^ Foumberg, Jason (2017). "Iceberg Projects". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  25. ^ Wilson, Sheilah (26 May 2014). "The Invisible Inside the Visible". Journal for Artistic Research (5). Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  26. ^ Meksin, Elizaveta (28 December 2012). "The Invisible Inside the Visible: A Conversation with Sheilah Wilson". Temporary Art Review. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  27. ^ "Q&AS WITH KIM SALAC, MACKIE MALLISON, THUY-HAN NGUYEN-CHI, COURTNEY STEPHENS, SHEILAH RESTACK, AND ANGELO MADSEN MINAX ON OCT. 8 & 9".
  28. ^ "Future From Inside by Dani and Sheilah ReStack". Visual Studies Workshop. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  29. ^ "Interview: Dani and Sheilah ReStack". filmcommen. 21 June 2022.
  30. ^ Bittencourt, Ela (4 October 2019). "Familiar Yet Strange: Shorts From This Year's Projections Showcase at the NY Film Fest". Hyperallergic.
  31. ^ "Come Coyote at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020".
  32. ^ "Go Ask Joan". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  33. ^ Wang, Theresa. "Public Intimacies, Images Festival, Super 8 Hotel, Toronto, April 14–16, 2018". Simon Fraser University.
  34. ^ Sicinski, Michael (4 September 2017). "Strangely Ordinary this Devotion (Dani Leventhal & Sheilah Wilson, USA) — Wavelengths". Cinema Scope 72 (Fall 2017).
  35. ^ "Dani (Leventhal) ReStack and Sheilah Wilson at the Whitney Museum of American Art".
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