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About the Artist

Sky Hopinka (b. 1984, Washington, Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) creates video, photo, and text work which has been featured at various festivals (including Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Courtisane Festival, Punto de Vista, and the New York Film Festival) and in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the 2018 FRONT Triennial and Prospect.5. He was a guest curator at the 2019 Whitney Biennial and participated in Cosmopolis #2 at the Centre Pompidou. Solo exhibitions include the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and LUMA Arles. Hopinka was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2018- 2019, a Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow for 2019, an Art Matters Fellow in 2019, a recipient of a 2020 Alpert Award for Film/Video, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2021 Forge Project Fellow, and a 2022 MacArthur Fellow.

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