Sheilah Wilson ReStack + Dani Leventhal ReStack | House Becomes You
Opening Reception August 16Wellfleet
August 16 – October 6, 2018
Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack
This Could Be An Act of Courage, 2015
performance with airplane, Granville, Ohio
Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack
Mother's March, 2012
photo documentation of Mother's March in Sackville, New Brunswick
Sheliah (Wilson) ReStack
12.13.14. Memory Translation, 2011
film slept on and processed, inkjet print
Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack
Untitled (flight series), 2008
c print
Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack
Untitled (for Rose), 2016
inkjet print
Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack
The Invisible Inside the Visible, 2012
photo documentation of performance, Nova Scotia
Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack
To Spill You is to Hold You, 2017
inkjet collage, 2017
Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack
Hand as Foot, 2017
inkjet collage
Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack
Memory Translation Machine, 2011
inkjet print
Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack
12.13.14. Memory Translation, 2011
film slept on and processed, inkjet print
Sheliah (Wilson) ReStack
Headlands September 2016, 2016
walking prints on fiber paper
Sheliah (Wilson) ReStack
12.13.14. Memory Translation, 2011
film slept on and processed, inkjet print
Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack (b. 1975 Caribou River, Nova Scotia) is a visual artist whose work is a feminist investigation into photographic and moving images as one of the possible materials for imagining desire, motherhood, and queer family into the world. Wilson ReStack has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at Camden Arts Center, Columbus Museum of Art, and The British Museum among others. Awards include Nova Scotia Talent Trust recipient, Creative Capital Foundation Scholarship, Canada Council Travel Grant , Denison University Research Funding, Canada Council Project Grant, Howard Foundation Photography Grant, Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence, Union Docs Fellowship. Wilson ReStack’s work has been commissioned for the Museum of Fine Arts of Santa Fe, Balloon Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico, OSU Urban Art Spaces, W(here) Festival in Pictou County, Columbia College Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art, Ross Creek Center for the Arts, Confederation Arts Centre and others. She received a BFA from NSCAD University in 2003 and an MFA from Goldmiths College in 2004. Wilson ReStack lives in Columbus, Ohio, where she is an Associate Professor at Denison University.
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.