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Artworks
Sky Hopinka
Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians,
b. 1984, Ferndale, WA Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Sky Hopinka was born and raised in Ferndale, WA, and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, CA, Portland, OR, and Milwaukee, WI. In Portland, he studied and taught Chinuk Wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. Hopinka’s video, photo, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape, and designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal, documentary, and nonfiction forms of media.
Hopinka’s work has been featured in exhibitions and screenings internationally, including the Whitney Biennial (2017); FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art (2018); Counterpublic Triennial (2019); and Prospect.5, New Orleans (2021), as well as recent solo exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. His films have played at festivals including AFI Fest, Los Angeles, CA; Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI; Berlinale, Germany; New York Film Festival, NY; Sundance Film Festival, UT and the Toronto International Film Festivals, Canada.
Hopinka is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (2022), Forge Project Fellowship (2021), and Guggenheim Fellowship (2020), as well as the Infinity Award in Art from the International Center of Photography (2022) and the Alpert Award for Film/Video (2020). His work is held in numerous collections, including The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Tate Modern, London, UK; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among many others.
Photo courtesy the artist
