Sky Hopinka

Sky Hopinka (born 1984) Hopinka was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022.

Early life and education Hopinka was born in Ferndale, Washington,

Hopinka's undergraduate education was at Portland State University (PSU), where he became interested in documentary film. He received a Bachelor of Arts in liberal arts.

Career Hopinka's work deals with personal interpretations of homeland and landscape; the correlation between language and culture in relation to home and land. the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Walker Art Center, the Tate Modern, the Whitney Biennial, Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Sundance Film Festival, ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, New York Film Festival, among others.

Hopinka organized a film program called What Was Always Yours and Never Lost focused on indigenous experimental cinema. The film series began in 2016 and was later shown at the 2019 Whitney Biennial.

Teaching Hopinka is former associate professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, where he taught film, video and animation. He is currently assistant professor of Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College. He has also taught Chinuk Wawa, an Indigenous language of the Lower Columbia River Basin. 2020, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship 2020, MacDowell (artists' residency and workshop) fellowship 2019, Media City Film Festival's Chrysalis Fellowship to work on post-production of małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore (2020) 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".

Collections Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.