ReStack was born in 1975 in
Caribou River, Nova Scotia. 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. ReStack teaches and is Chair of Studio Art at
Denison University. ReStack also works collaboratively with her wife Dani (Leventhal) ReStack. 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. They have received funding from the
Canada Council for the Arts, and have been recognized by Judy Flower's Through the Flower Foundation and the
Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence in Photography. 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. A visual text accompanying the trilogy, also titled "Feral Domestic," was commissioned by the
Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, and published in the fall of 2022. ==Solo exhibitions==