{{Short description|Canadian artist (born 1975)}} {{notability|1=Biographies|date=July 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox artist | name = Sheilah Wilson ReStack | image = Sheilah Restack 2.jpg | caption = | birth_date = 1975 | birth_place = Caribou River, Nova Scotia, Canada. | movement = Contemporary<br/>Conceptual | awards = | website = {{URL|sheilahwilsonrestack.com}} | education = BFA, NSCAD University<br/> MFA, Goldsmiths College <br/> BA, Mount Allison University | known_for = Photographer, installation artist, videographer and sculptor. }}
'''Sheilah Wilson ReStack''' (born 1975 Caribou River, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian artist working in photography, sculpture, video and installation.
ReStack's work has been exhibited in solo shows at Interface Gallery ("Hold Hold Spill"),<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.interfaceartgallery.com/meksin-interview |title=Meksin Interview — interface gallery |last=Meksin |first=Leeza}}</ref> Blue Building Gallery ("Control is Cassandra"),<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thebluebuilding.ca/control-is-cassandra |title=Control is Cassandra}}</ref> and the Camden Centre for the Arts ("Cuts in the Day," a collaboration with Dani ReStack).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://camdenartcentre.org/artists/dani-and-sheilah-restack |title=Dani and Sheilah ReStack}}</ref> These exhibitions have been reviewed positively in a variety of publications, including Artforum<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Foumberg |first=Jason |date= |title=Dani Leventhal and Sheilah Wilson |url=https://www.artforum.com/picks/dani-leventhal-and-sheilah-wilson-71430 |magazine=Artforum |location=NewYorkCity |publisher= |access-date=2023-03-19}}</ref> and Bomb Magazine.<ref>{{cite magazine |last= Meksin |first= Leeza |date= |title= Feral Domesticity: Dani and Sheilah ReStack Interviewed |url= https://bombmagazine.org/articles/feral-domesticity-dani-and-sheilah-restack-interviewed/|magazine= Bomb |location= NewYorkCity|publisher= |access-date= 2023-03-19}}</ref>
== Biography == ReStack was born in 1975 in Caribou River, Nova Scotia.<ref name="Art Week">{{cite web |title=Dani Leventhal ReStack + Sheilah Wilson ReStack – |url=https://www.artweek.com/events/united-states/art-exhibition/wellfleet/dani-leventhal-restack-sheilah-wilson-restack# |website=Art Week |access-date=27 September 2021 |language=en |date=14 August 2018}}</ref> 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.<ref name="MacDowell">{{cite web |title=Sheilah ReStack – Artist |url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/sheilah-re-stack |website=MacDowell |access-date=27 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> ReStack teaches and is Chair of Studio Art at Denison University.<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 September 2009 |title=Sheilah ReStack |url=https://denison.edu/people/sheilah-restack |access-date=2009-09-12 |work=Denison University |language=en}}</ref>
ReStack also works collaboratively with her wife Dani (Leventhal) ReStack.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sandals |first=Leah |date=24 December 2018 |title=A Year in Motherhood |url=https://canadianart.ca/features/a-year-in-motherhood/ |access-date=2021-07-04 |website=Canadian Art |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tomlin |first=Dave |title="Shameless Light" to shine at the Lyric in Zozo |url=https://www.ruidosonews.com/story/news/local/2016/12/06/shameless-light-shine-lyric-zozo/95010530/ |access-date=2021-07-04 |website=Ruidoso News |language=en-US}}</ref> Dani ReStack is an American photographer whose work has been recognized with numerous grants and awards, including the Howard Foundation Fellowship in Photography in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |date= |title=The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation |url=https://www.brown.edu/howard-foundation/about |access-date=2023-03-19 |website=Brown |language=en-US}}</ref> They have received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts,<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |date= |title=Bringing the arts to life |url=https://canadacouncil.ca/ |access-date=2023-03-19 |website=Canadacouncil |language=en-US}}</ref> and have been recognized by Judy Flower's Through the Flower Foundation<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |date=16 July 2020 |title=About the Through the Flower |url=https://throughtheflower.org/about/ |access-date=2023-03-19 |website=ThroughTheFlower |language=en-US}}</ref> and the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence in Photography.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |date= |title=Strengthening investment and engagement in the arts FOR ARTISTS |url=https://oac.ohio.gov/Artists2 |access-date=2023-03-19 |website=Oac |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2017 Dani and Sheilah ReStack's film ''Strangely Ordinary This Devotion'' was included in the Whitney Biennial.
Sheilah 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 Centre, Maggie Nelson praised the films for their exploration of queer families and their attention to the everyday details of domestic life.<ref>{{Cite web |title=File Note 143: Dani & Sheilah ReStack - Camden Art Centre |url=https://camdenartcentre.org/file-notes/file-note-143-dani-sheilah-restack |access-date=2024-11-25 |website=camdenartcentre.org}}</ref> A visual text accompanying the trilogy, also titled "Feral Domestic,"<ref>{{cite web |date=6 September 2022 |title=Feral Domestic: Video Trilogy by Dani and Sheilah ReStack |url=https://www.wpr.org/feral-domestic-video-trilogy-dani-and-sheilah-restack |access-date=19 March 2023 |website=wpr |language=en}}</ref> was commissioned by the Visual Studies Workshop<ref>{{cite web |title=Visual Studies Workshop |url=https://www.vsw.org/ |access-date=19 March 2023 |website=VSW |language=en}}</ref> in Rochester, New York, and published in the fall of 2022.
==Solo exhibitions== * 2022: ''Control is Cassandra'' at The Blue Building Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.thebluebuilding.ca/control-is-cassandra| title= Control is Cassandra}}</ref> * {{cite book |last= Macaskill |first= Annick |date=2020 |title= Text, Image, and Disruption in Sheliah Restack's Control is Cassandra |url= https://static1.squarespace.com/static/597ed2cbd2b8570b18d68710/t/63b3b3f4e134f01091122a1c/1672721441995/VANS_review_controliscassandra.pdf |publisher= Visual Arts News}} thumb|alt=none|Hold House, ''Hold Hold Spill'' at Interface Gallery *2020: ''Hold Hold Spill'' at Interface Gallery, Oakland, California.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.interfaceartgallery.com/meksin-interview | title=Meksin Interview — interface gallery|last=Meksin|first=Leeza}}</ref> *2014: ''If Becoming This'' at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/597ed2cbd2b8570b18d68710/t/59a39b9649fc2b116e7d2368/1503894462475/SWilson_44PageV2.pdf| title= Sheilah ReStack at Antioch College}}</ref> *2013: ''Build Your Altar'' at Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://enjoy.org.nz/build-your-altar-to-this-moment | title= In the Presence of Presence: the Embodied Souvenir in Sheilah Wilson's Build Your Altar To This Moment|last=Collinson|first=Olivia|work=Enjoy}}</ref>
==Exhibitions (in collaboration with Dani ReStack)== *2022: ''Cuts in the Day'' at Camden Art Centre, London, United Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://camdenartcentre.org/artists/dani-and-sheilah-restack| title= Dani and Sheilah ReStack}}</ref> *2018: ''House Becomes You'' at GAA Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Sheilah and Dani ReStack at Gaa Gallery|url=http://www.gaa-gallery.com/exhibitions/sheilah-wilson-restack-dani-leventhal-restack-house-becomes-you}}</ref> *2017: ''Stack for Carrington's Hyena'' at Iceberg Projects, Chicago.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://icebergchicago.com/Dani-Leventhal-and-Sheilah-Wilson-Stack-for-Carrington-s-Hyena | title= Sheilah and Dani ReStack at Iceberg Projects}}</ref><ref> {{Cite web|last=Foumberg|first=Jason|date=2017|title=Iceberg Projects|url=https://www.artforum.com/picks/dani-leventhal-and-sheilah-wilson-71430|access-date=2021-07-04|website=www.artforum.com|language=en-US}}</ref> thumb|alt=none|''Stack for Carrington's Hyena'', Iceberg Projects, 2018 with Dani ReStack
thumb|alt=none|''Rabbit'', cement wedge, felt blanket, walking prints, thread, acetate, 2020
==Performance== *2012: ''The Invisible inside the Visible'' in a rural Nova Scotian community.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=26 May 2014|title= The Invisible Inside the Visible|url=https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/31415/31458 |access-date=2021-11-17|journal=Journal for Artistic Research|issue=5|language=en-US|last1=Wilson|first1=Sheilah}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Meksin |first=Elizaveta|date=28 December 2012|title=The Invisible Inside the Visible: A Conversation with Sheilah Wilson|url=https://temporaryartreview.com/the-invisible-inside-the-visible-a-conversation-with-sheilah-wilson/|access-date=2021-11-17|website=Temporary Art Review|language=en-US}}</ref>
==Filmography (in collaboration with Dani ReStack)== *2022: ''The Sky's in There'' (00:11:24min)<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2022/films/currents-program-6-inside-voices//| title= Q&AS WITH KIM SALAC, MACKIE MALLISON, THUY-HAN NGUYEN-CHI, COURTNEY STEPHENS, SHEILAH RESTACK, AND ANGELO MADSEN MINAX ON OCT. 8 & 9}}</ref> *2021: ''Future From Inside'' (23:59min)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Future From Inside by Dani and Sheilah ReStack|url=http://www.vsw.org/exhibition/future-from-inside-by-dani-and-sheilah-restack/|access-date=2021-07-04|website=Visual Studies Workshop|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Interview: Dani and Sheilah ReStack|url=https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/interview-dani-and-sheilah-restack-the-feral-domestic/|website=filmcommen|date=21 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref> *2019: ''Come Coyote'' (7min)<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://hyperallergic.com/521108/familiar-yet-strange-shorts-from-this-years-projections-showcase-at-the-ny-film-fest/ | title= Familiar Yet Strange: Shorts From This Year's Projections Showcase at the NY Film Fest |last=Bittencourt|first=Ela|work=Hyperallergic| date= 4 October 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://iffr.com/en/2020/films/come-coyote |title= Come Coyote at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020}}</ref> *2019: ''Go Ask Joan''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Go Ask Joan|url=https://filmfreeway.com/GoAskJoan|access-date=2021-07-04|website=FilmFreeway|language=en}}</ref> *2018: ''A Hand in Two Ways; Fisted''<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.sfu.ca/cmajournal/issues/issue-five--affective-framing--cinematic-experience-and-exhibiti/theresa-wang.html | title= Public Intimacies, Images Festival, Super 8 Hotel, Toronto, April 14–16, 2018 |last=Wang|first=Theresa|work=Simon Fraser University}}</ref> *2017: ''Strangely Ordinary This Devotio''n<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://cinema-scope.com/cinema-scope-online/strangely-ordinary-this-devotion-dani-leventhal-sheilah-wilson-usa-wavelengths/ | title= Strangely Ordinary this Devotion (Dani Leventhal & Sheilah Wilson, USA) — Wavelengths |last=Sicinski|first=Michael|work=Cinema Scope 72 (Fall 2017)| date= 4 September 2017 }}</ref><ref name="collab">{{Cite web | url=https://whitney.org/events/dani-leventhal | title= Dani (Leventhal) ReStack and Sheilah Wilson at the Whitney Museum of American Art}}</ref>
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