Sky Hopinka

Sky Hopinka (born 1984)[1] is a visual artist and filmmaker who is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño people.[2]

Sky Hopkina
Born1984
Ferndale, Washington
NationalityHo-Chunk Nation; American
EducationPortland State University
University of Wisconsin
Known forvideo, film, animation
Styleexperimental
AwardsJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Websitewww.skyhopinka.com

Early life

Hopinka was born in Ferndale, Washington,[3] and moved to southern California as a teenager.[4]

Education

Hopinka's undergraduate education was at Portland State University, where he became interested in documentary film. He received a Bachelor of Arts in liberal arts.[5][2] In 2013 he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the homeland of the Ho-chunk Nation, and enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he received an MFA degree in film, video, and new genres from.[2][5]

Career

Hopinka's work deals with personal interpretations of homeland and landscape; the correlation between language and culture in relation to home and land.[2] He describes his work as “Deconstructing language [through cinema] is a way for me to be free from the dogma of traditional storytelling and then, from there, to explore or propose more of what Indigenous cinema has the possibility to look like.”[5]

His film and video work has been featured at the Museum of Modern Art, New York,[1] the Walker Art Center,[6] the Tate Modern,[7] the Whitney Biennial,[8] Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College,[9] Sundance Film Festival,[10] ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival,[11] Toronto International Film Festival,[12] Ann Arbor Film Festival,[13] New York Film Festival,[14] among others.

Teaching

Hopinka is an associate professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, where he teaches film, video, and animation. He has also taught Chinuk Wawa, the indigenous language of the Lower Columbia River Basin.[2]

Awards

2020, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship[3]
2020, MacDowell_(artists'_residency_and_workshop) fellowship[15]
2018–19, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University fellowship to work on to post-production work on a feature-length experimental film, titled Imał. This film has been described as "wandering through a neomythological approach to explore an Indigenous presence of language and culture in the Pacific Northwest".[2]
2017, Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship, 2017[2]
2016, More with Less Award, Images Festival[2]
2015, Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker, Ann Arbor Film Festival[2][16]

Collections

Whitney Museum of American Art[8]
Museum of Modern Art, New York[1]

References
  1. "Sky Hopinka". Museum of Modern Art, New York. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  2. "Sky Hopinka (2018–2019) Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow". Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  3. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Sky Hopinka". The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  4. Cronk, Jordan (January 2020). "Sky Hopinka on Indigenous language, the afterlife, and making his first feature". Artforum magazine. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  5. Cronk, Jordan (2018). "Sky Hopinka". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  6. "Sky Hopinka: The Centers of Somewhere". Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  7. "Sky Hopinka: MAŁNI". The Tate Modern Museum. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  8. "Sky Hopinka". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  9. "Sky Hopinka Centers of Somewhere". Hessel Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  10. "Malni - Towards the Ocean Towards the Shore". Sundance Film Festival. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  11. "Lore". ImagineNATIVE film festival. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  12. Shindel, Dan (13 September 2017). "Standout Shorts from the Toronto International Film Festival". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  13. "Video interview: Sky Hopinka at the 54th AAFF". Ann Arbor Film Festival. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  14. Voelcker, Becca. "NYFF Interview: Sky Hopinka". Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  15. "MacDowell Awards Winter-Spring Fellowships to 87 Artists". MacDowell. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  16. "THE 54The Ann Arbor Film Festival Award Winning Films". Ann Arbor Film Festival. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
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