Sky Hopinka

Birth

1984 (Ferndale, Washington)

Professor, curator, and multimedia artist Sky Hopinka is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a descendant of the Pechanga Band of the Luiseño people. Hopinka’s oeuvre, based in video, photo, and text, examines Indigenous homelands. He often depicts the sky and includes writing in his prints. Hopinka, who currently is Assistant Professor in the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University, received the 2020 Herb Alpert Award for Film/Video, the 2022 Infinity Award in Art from the International Center of Photography, and the 2023 Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel.

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Teją́. The Sea. It's neither our name for the great lakes or lesser lakes. It's the sea, and we said we were from the north and from the salt. It's too much right now. Too much like learning that my father performed the Breathings his entire life. I hav, 2020

Sky Hopinka

Inkjet print with etched words
P2021.30
The clouds are too dull this time of year. It's late June and I'm full of anger and hate. They think we're trash, they think we're as useless as our garbage buried in their fields turned up under plow, exposed in heavy rain. It makes me angry to think abo, 2020

Sky Hopinka

Inkjet print with etched words
P2021.31

Sky Hopinka

Creator Details

Artworks

Teją́. The Sea. It's neither our name for the great lakes or lesser lakes. It's the sea, and we said we were from the north and from the salt. It's too much right now. Too much like learning that my father performed the Breathings his entire life. I hav, 2020

The clouds are too dull this time of year. It's late June and I'm full of anger and hate. They think we're trash, they think we're as useless as our garbage buried in their fields turned up under plow, exposed in heavy rain. It makes me angry to think abo, 2020