Biography

CV

BORN

1972, Columbus, Ohio, USA

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS           

2024

I am the First Lesbian I Ever Met, with Sheilah ReStack, Circulating Copies, Curated by Nele Kaczmarek, Intermedia Art Institute, Düsseldorf, Germany

Feral Domestic, with Sheilah ReStack, Curated by Susan Gibb, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada

 

2023

Slow Dance, Stadtgalerie Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Shameless Light, with Sheilah ReStack, curated Kayte McSweeney, British Museum, London, UK

Slowdance II, with Sheilah ReStack, curated by Richard Sides and Luca Beeler, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland

Shameless Light, with Sheilah ReStack, Mimosa House Gallery and Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

 

2022      

Feral Domestic, with Sheilah ReStack, Haus Zur Liebe, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Cuts In The Day, with Sheilah ReStack, Camden Art Center, London, UK

To Draw the Sky Before the Ground, with Sheilah ReStack, Haus zur Liebe, Switzerland

Feral Domestic, with Sheilah ReStack, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Germany

 

2021

Request for the Giant Panda, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA

Stack for Martha’s Sisters, with Sheilah ReStack, TCU Contemporary, Ft. Worth, TX, USA

Tourism, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland

Tourism, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland

 

2020     

ACUD Gallery, Bells, Berlin, Germany 

Repose, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA

 

2019
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

Shameless Light, Leslie Lohman Prince Street Project Space, New York, NY, USA
A Slight Ache, Chapter Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom    
A Slight Ache, Cabinet Gallery, London, United Kingdom         
 
2017
Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA 
Pine Forest, solo exhibition, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Repeat Pressure Until, Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA
Stack for Carrington's Hyena, Iceberg Gallery, Wilson & Leventhal, Chicago, IL, USA
Stack, Columbus Museum of Art, Wilson & Leventhal, Columbus, OH, USA
 

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

2023

Queer City Cinema, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Behaving Like Animals, curated by Matthew Lax, Project Space Festival, Berlin, Germany

Diversions X curated by Nomadica, Bologna, Italy

Mills Folly Microcinema, Madison, WI, USA

Paradise Tossed, curated by Nele Kaczmarek, Intermedia Arts Festival 

Athens International Film Video Festival, OH, USA

Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, IL, USA

Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, WI, USA

International Short Film Festival, curated by the Video Data Bank, Oberhausen, Germany

2022

NYFF Currents, New York, NY, USA

Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, USA

Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

European Media Art Festival № 35, Osnabrück, Germany

Anorak, Berlin, Germany

 

2021      

An Evening of Feral Domesticity, Dreamsong, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Carte Blanche, “To The Lighthouse,” MoMA, New York, NY, USA

 

2020       

Kasseler Dokfest Kassel Documentary Film Festival, Germany

International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Cine de Madrid DocumentaMadrid, Madrid, Spain

Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, IL, USA

States of Desire: Tom of Finland in the Queer Imagination, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 

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     

 

                     

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Dani Leventhal’s work is distributed by the Video Data Bank and Vtape

Dani Leventhal’s work is distributed by the Video Data Bank and Vtape

Dani Leventhal’s work is distributed by the Video Data Bank and Vtape