Bio

Sky Hopinka

Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington, and Palm Springs, California. In Portland, Oregon, he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His work has played at various festivals including Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival. His films, videos, and photographs are in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany, The Whitney Museum, and the Walker Art Center among others. He is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is an Assistant Professor in the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University.