Sheilah [Wilson] ReStack

1975 Caribou River, Nova Scotia

Education

2004

  • MFA Studio Arts Practice Goldsmiths College, London, United Kingdom.

2002

  • BFA NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

1998

  • BA Honors English and French, Mount Allison University, New Brunswick.

Exhibitions

2024

  • Site Specific Installation for Intermedia Art Institute, Düsseldorf, Germany. Curated by Nele Kaczmarek. (upcoming)

  • Feral Domestic (with Dani ReStack), Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, BC. Curated by Susan Gibb.

2023

  • Wake Sleep Dream, Beeler Gallery, Columbus, OH. Group show curated by Tim Rietenbach.

  • Shameless Light, British Museum, London, UK. Group show curated by Kayte McSweeney. (with Dani ReStack)

  • Slowdance II, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland. Group show curated by Richard Sides and Luca Beeler. (with Dani ReStack)

  • Shameless Light, Mimosa House Gallery and Camden Arts Centre, London, UK. (with Dani ReStack) **

2022

  • Cuts in the Day, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK. Curated by Martin Clark. (with Dani ReStack) **

  • Control is Cassandra, The Blue Building Gallery, K'jipuktuk / Halifax, Nova Scotia. Curated by Emily Falencki.**

  • To Draw the Sky Before the Ground, Haus zur Liebe, Switzerland (with Dani ReStack). **

  • Feral Domestic, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Germany (with Dani ReStack). **

  • Baronness Elsa Project, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick. Group show curated by Heather Anderson

2021

  • Baronness Elsa Project, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada. Curated by Heather Anderson

  • Stack for Martha’s Sisters, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts Gallery, TCU University, Texas (with Dani ReStack). Curated by Sara Jayne Parsons **

  • Glitter of Seas, Dreamsong, Minneapolis, MN. Curated by Rebecca Heidenberg

  • Soft Launch The Blue Building, K'jipuktuk / Halifax. Group Show curated by Emily Falencki

2020

  • Letter to My Daughter, Window Gallery Sointula Residency, British Columbia. Curated by Kerri Reid. *

  • Bells, Achud Macht Neu, Berlin, Germany. Curated by anorak collective.

  • Hold Hold Spill, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA. Curated by Suzanne L’Heureux. **(solo)

2019

  • About Ourselves Inside Ourselves, Denison Museum, Granville, OH. Curated by Megan Hancock.

  • After and Because of; 50 years after Stonewall, Herron School of Art and Design, IN. Curated by Gustavo Ayala.

2018

  • House Becomes You, with Dani ReStack, GAA Gallery, Wellfleet, MA**

  • Labors: An Exhibition Exploring the Complexities of Motherhood, curated by Kate Shannon, OSU Pearl Conrad Gallery

2017

  • Stack for Carrington's Hyena, Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL (with Dani [Leventhal] ReStack) **

  • A Hand in Two Ways (Fisted), Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (with Dani [Leventhal] ReStack)

  • Citings/Sightings, Lennon Weinberg, New York, NY

2016

  • East is the New West, curated by Sophia Bartholomew, Vancouver Art/Book fair.

  • Pole Saw curated by Fritz Horstman, Pyramiden, Russia

  • Satellite Squared, Migrational Methods & a Romantic Gonzo Gesture curated by Zahar Vaks, Satellite Contemporary, Las Vegas.

2015

  • Always Already Here, curated by Joshua Bienko, Ortega y Gasset Booth at Baltimore Art Fair.

  • Doing Our Own Thing: Back-to-the-land in Eastern Canada during the 1970s curated by Pan Wendt and Amish Morell, Confederation Centre, PEI.

  • Tightened, as If By Pliers, curated by Joshua Bienko and Leeza Meksin, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY.

  • Earthwerks and other Celestial Familiars, Sidecar Gallery, Indiana. OYG member show.

2014

  • Pictou Island Portage, curated by Eryn Foster, Nova Scotia.

  • The Fixed Shadow, Jurors Carol Panaro-Smith and James Hajicek, Wright State University, Ohio.

  • DESPAIR / DESPAIR NOT, Installation Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Ontario.

  • RELAY RELAY, ORTEGA Y GASSET PROJECTS, collective group show, Bushwick, New York.

  • BUILD YOUR ALTAR (solo show), Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand. **

2013

  • The Almost Metal Collective, curated by David Jones, A + D Gallery Columbia College, Chicago.

  • Society Photographic Educators, Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Curated by Catherine Evans.

  • The Invisible Inside the Visible, Ross Creek Center for the Arts, Nova Scotia. **

  • If Becoming This, Antioch University, Ohio. **

2012

  • A line drawn continuously and without looking while you tell your out of body experience, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD Artist in Residence/ Visiting Artist, Halifax, Nova Scotia. **

  • W(here), curated by Mary MacDonald, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. **

  • Brevity of all things pure, Featherston Seen, window installation, Featherston, New Zealand. **

  • Ephemeral Traces, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand. Curated by Claudia Arozqueta.

  • Melting Snow by Hand and other Minor Miracles, Queen Elizabeth II Park, Masterton, New Zealand. **

2011

  • Memory Translation Machine, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, Ohio. **

  • Courage, storefront installation, River John, Nova Scotia. **

2010

  • Time Sensitive, Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio. Juried by Ola Stoehl.

  • you are my favorite photograph, (solo show) Denison Museum, Granville, Ohio. **

  • Image Ohio, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, Ohio.

2009

  • Ohio Art League Juried Show, Fort Hayes Shot Tower, Columbus, Ohio. Juried by Liza Dent, curator at Columbus Museum of Art.

  • 20th Anniversary, Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus Ohio. Juried by Christopher Lynn, director of SPACES.

  • this is only one of the possible redemptions, Through the Flower, Belen, New Mexico. **

  • Terminal Video Festival, Austin Peay State University, Tennessee.

  • Small Scale Big Ambition, with Andy Weber and Emily Hall, Rutgers University, New Jersey.

2008

  • Add-Art and the Future of Online Advertising, curated by Paddy Johnson for Eyebeam Gallery.

  • Southwest Biennial, Albuquerque Museum of Fine Art, New Mexico.

  • Short Suite, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand. **

  • Forevermagic, solo show, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. **

  • Come Out and Play, Supermasochist group video screening, Apexart, New York.

  • ERI 3, group bookwork show, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

  • New Feminist Works, group show and first place award, Belen, New Mexico.

2007

  • outside it is a dark spread even, Salon Mar Graff, Tesuque, New Mexico. **

  • Loosely Joined, Creative Capital participants show, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico, curated by Diane Karp.

  • Noche Delcious III, curator and organizer of the Madrid Ballpark outdoor film and video festival.

  • CCA/disCoarse Art Santa Fe 26 hour performance, art Santa Fe location, curated by Cyndi Conn and Zane Fischer.

  • Some place I have never travelled, Cruz Gallery, New Mexico, curated by Cyndi Conn. **

  • Flight of Fancy, Museum of Fine Arts, New Mexico, curated by Laura Addisson.

  • Eye to I, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico, curated by Suzanne Sbarge.

  • Site Santa Fe commission for work at New Years Eve party.

** = solo or collaborative solo show

Screenings/ Performances

2023

  • Queer City Cinema, Regina, Saskatchewan (The Sky’s In There)

  • Behaving Like Animals, Project Space Festival, Berlin curated by Matthew Lax. (The Sky’s In There)

  • Feral Domestic Trilogy, Diversions X curated by Nomadica, Bologna, Italy (SOTD, Come Coyote, FFI)

  • Feral Domestic Trilogy, Mills Folly Microcinema, Madison, WI (SOTD, Come Coyote, FFI)

  • Paradise Tossed, Intermedia Arts Festival curated by Nele Kaczmarek. (The Sky’s In There)

  • Athen International Film Video Festival, OH (The Sky’s In There)

  • Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, IL (The Sky’s In There)

  • Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, WI (The Sky’s In There)

  • International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, curated by VDB, Germany (The Sky’s In There)

2022

  • New York Film Festival: Currents, curated by Aily Nash and Tyler Wilson. (The Sky’s In There)

  • European Media Arts Festival (Osnabrück) in program It’s Rather a Verb curated by Sirah and Eitan Foigel Bruttman. (Strangely Ordinary This Devotion, Come Coyote, Future From Inside)

  • Featured Artists Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, IL. (Strangely Ordinary This Devotion, Come Coyote, Future From Inside)

2021

  • ‘To the Lighthouse’ curated by Mark McElhatten at MOMA, NYC (Future From Inside)

  • Shameless Light, Fort Worth, Texas

  • Rhizome DC Miloti Program curated by Cameron Sharp (Come Coyote)

2020

  • Documenta Madrid, Spain (Come Coyote)

  • Kasseler DokFest, Germany (Come Coyote)

  • Onion City online, Chicago, curated program ‘Human-Animals: After All” (Come Coyote)

  • We Are One Global Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival online, curated by Jason Guttierez. (A Hand in Two Ways: Fisted)

  • International Film Festival Rotterdam (Come Coyote)

2019

  • The Journey, MUMOK, Vienna, curated by Maria Petschnig (Go Ask Joan)

  • DocLisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (Come Coyote, SOTD)

  • Projections, New York Film Festival, NY (Come Coyote)

  • Berwick International Film Festival, Berwick, UK (Come Coyote)

  • Intimate Topographies, Cinemacamp, curated by Almudena Escobar Lopez (SOTD)

  • FLEXFest Florida Experimental Video Festival, Florida (SOTD)

2018

  • University Illinois Chicago (Shameless Light and SOTD) followed by Q&A

  • Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York (Shameless Light and SOTD) followed by Q&A

  • Mothlight Cinema: Image Bearings: New Video Work by Women in the Midwest curated by Sally Lawton, Detroit MI (SOTD)

  • Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, Maryland (SOTD)

  • Anthology Film Archives, New York (SOTD)

  • Iowa City International Film Festival, Iowa (SOTD)

  • ReStack's Proposal at Leslie Lohman LGBTQ Museum Project Space, New York (Shameless Light and SOTD)

  • Images Festival, Toronto, Canada (A Hand in Two Ways; Fisted) followed by Q&A with Richard Wong

  • Bucharest International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Romania (SOTD)

  • Jeonju International Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea (SOTD)

  • Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago (SOTD) Won Best of Festival

2017

  • Wexner Visiting Filmmaker (Shameless Light Performance, screening Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (SOTD) and Q&A with Chris Stults)

  • Toronto International Film Festival; Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (SOTD), Wavelengths, curated by Andrea Picard.

  • Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (SOTD)

  • Athens International Film Festival Juror Screening SOTD and Shameless Light Performance

  • Whitney Biennial, premiere of Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (SOTD)

2016

  • Shameless Light performance, Dani Leventhal and Sheilah Wilson, Lyric Theatre, Carizozzo NM.

Curatorial

2017

  • Repeat Pressure Until, Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, Ohio. (curator)

  • Mother Mother, volume II, edited publication of mother artists and writers.

2016

  • Repeat Pressure Until, Ortega y Gasset Projects, New York. (curator)

  • Mother Mother, volume I, edited publication of mother artists and writers.

2014

  • Body As Omen, curated performance series with Maria Hupfield, Ryder Cooley, Blanko + Noiry, Baker Overstreet, Michael Dudeck, Rachel Mason, Geo Wyeth and The Institute for New Feeling. Ortega y Gasset projects, New York.*

Residencies

2022

  • Eastern Edge Residency, St. John’s Newfoundland (cancelled due to Covid19)

2021

  • Visual Studies Workshop Project Space Resident (with Dani Restack)

2020

  • Santa Fe Art Institute Labor Fellow (cancelled due to Covid19)

2019

  • MacDowell Fellowship, New Hampshire

2017

  • The Map is Not the Territory, thematic residency Cowhouse Studios, Ireland

  • The Annex Arts Center and Residency, Castine, ME

2016

2014

  • Confederation Centre Artist Research Residency, Prince Edward Island.

  • Struts & Faucet Gallery Artist in Residence, New Brunswick.

2012

  • Full Tilt Residency, Newfoundland.

  • Artist in Residence, NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

2011

  • Something in the Water: thematic residency with Adam Chodzko. Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta.

2008

  • New Pacific Studios, Masterton, New Zealand.

Awards

2023

  • Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Photography.

2020

  • Canada Arts Council Project Grant for Travel.

  • Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Photography.

  • Jury Prize at Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, IL. (Come Coyote) Jurors Liz Cambron, Ruth Hodgins, Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez.

2019

  • Union Docs UNDO Fellowship for radical practices of documentary filmmaking. With Dani ReStack.

  • Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Collaborative Practice. With Dani ReStack.

2018

  • Denison University Research Funding House Becomes You.

  • Canada Council for the Arts: Research and Development for Future from Inside.

  • Onion City Best of Festival Award by Amina Ross, Carl Bogner and Hannah Piper-Burns

2017

  • Howard Foundation Photography Fellowship, Brown University

2016

  • Canada Council for the Arts: Project Grant.

2015

  • Honorable Mention Excellence in Photographic Teaching, Center for Photography Santa Fe.

  • Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Photography

2014

  • Denison University Research Funding for Sweetly the Pilgrim Slowly the Way.

2013

  • Denison University Research Funding for BUILD YOUR ALTAR, solo show.

2012

  • Spectrum Series funding for THIS COULD BE AN ACT OF COURAGE, performance at Denison University.

  • Canada Council for the Arts: Project Grant.

2011

  • Scholarship for Something in the Water, thematic residency at Banff Center for the Arts.

2010

  • Renee Steidel Award, selected by Christopher Bedford from the Wexner Center at Ohio Art League Juried show.

2009

  • Denison University Research Foundation grant for 'Songs Worth Singing'.

2008

  • Canada Council Travel Grant for 'this is only one of the possible redemptions'.

  • First prize in New Feminist works competition, sponsored by the Through the Flower Foundation.

Artist Talks/Publications

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

  • Visiting Artist talk International Center for Photography

  • Interview with Leeza Meksin for Hold Hold Spill at Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA.

  • Moderated “Straight Lines Don’t Make a Journey: Cultural Displacement and Resilience” with Dani ReStack, for launch of eteam book, Grabeland, Goethe Institute, NYC.

  • Interview with curator Columbus Museum of Art, Tyler Cann, and Dani ReStack on Art Tells Stories

  • Partial Accountings of Photography, Blackflash Magazine, Issue 37.1.

  • Attempts to Change the Language, guest lecture and critiques for Image Makers, Ohio State University.

  • The Decade in Experimental Film by Jordan Cronk in Film Comment, January 2020.

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

  • Artist talk, NSCAD University, Nova Scotia.

  • Equal Parts Real and Imagined, Artist talk, W(here) festival, Nova Scotia.

  • Artist talk and Cloud Exchange project, Ranfurly Rooms, Masterton, New Zealand.

  • "A cloud in the shape of a cross: engaging a public" Artist talk: Aratoi Museum of History and Culture, Masterton, New Zealand.

2010

  • "Re-telling the History of Nova Scotia", Denison University Lunch hour talk.

2009

  • Featured artist in Flash-Flood issue two, an online publication of photography.

  • "Humor as Strategy", paper presented for University Art Association of Canada at 2009 conference in Edmonton, Alberta. Session, entitled "Ha, Ha! Made You Look: The Role of Humor in Art Activism", chaired by Christopher Moore.

  • "Shows Salute venue's rich legacy", Christopher Yates for The Columbus Dispatch, Sunday October 11, 2009.

  • Interview with Susan Loubet on KUNM, Womens Focus, Saturday June 27, 2009.

  • Review in Duke City Fix blog, June 2009.

  • Visiting Artist, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Indiana.

  • "Intersections: The photograph in popular culture", presentation for Film Studies Department, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana.

  • "Performing Rebellion: The Body and Feminist Art", paper presented for Diverse Students Leadership Conference, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana.

2008

2007

  • Nova Scotia from Memory, author.

  • "Night at the Movies", preview by Robert Nott for Noche Delicious III Film festival in the Pasatiempo: New Mexican, July 23, 2007.

  • "Frontiers of Fancy", article by Elizabeth Cook Romero, Pasatiempo: New Mexican, May 17, 2007.

  • Artist talk at 516 Arts in conjunction with exhibit Eye to I.

2006

  • "Egg on Your Face" review by Zane Fischer in the Santa Fe Reporter.

  • "Southwest Biennial" review by Jon Carver in THE Magazine

  • The Golden Egg, editor.

  • "Exhibits: 'Confessions'", review by Daniella Walsh, The Register, California, April 16, 1994.

  • Dialog 360, Lecture at Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe.