Born 1984, Ferndale, Washington. Lives and works in New York.
Unforgiven Souls Sing Hymns, Broadway Gallery, New York
Our Ailing Senses, Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg
Subterranean Ceremonies, Frye Art Museum, Seattle
Under the Moon, Beneath the Flowers, Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles
What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Sky Hopinka, Museu de Arte de São Paulo
Lore, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
Sunflower Siege Engine, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Behind the evening tide, LUMA Westbau, Zürich
Current Speed: Sky Hopinka, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Sky Hopinka: Seeing and Seen, San José Museum of Art, California
Our People are Our Mountains: Instructions for Placemaking, De Appel, Amsterdam
A Nation Takes Place, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, Minnesota
How to Carry Water, PRAx, Corvallis, Oregon
Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
At the still point of the turning world, STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium
The land describes itself, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri
Dream Time, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Behind the evening tide, LUMA Westbau, Zurich
Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Forth Worth, Texas
Kicking the Clouds, BAMPFA, Berkeley
what was always yours and never lost, BAMPFA, Berkeley
malni, Barbican Centre, London
malni, El Rio, London
Lore; Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song; I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become; Fainting Spells, London Short Film Festival, London
Kicking the Clouds, Sundance, Salt Lake City
Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Pullman, Washington
Born 1984, Ferndale, Washington. Lives and works in New York.
Unforgiven Souls Sing Hymns, Broadway Gallery, New York
Our Ailing Senses, Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg
Subterranean Ceremonies, Frye Art Museum, Seattle
Under the Moon, Beneath the Flowers, Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles
What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Sky Hopinka, Museu de Arte de São Paulo
Lore, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
Sunflower Siege Engine, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Behind the evening tide, LUMA Westbau, Zürich
Current Speed: Sky Hopinka, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Sky Hopinka: Seeing and Seen, San José Museum of Art, California
Kicking the Clouds, Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles
Sky Hopinka: The sun comes in whenever it wants, LUMA, Arles
Sky Hopinka: Memories of Movement, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
River Child, Broadway Gallery, New York
I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Sky Hopinka: Channeling Indigenous Histories, The Block Museum of Art, Chicago
Horizon Poems, The High Line, New York
małni – towards the ocean, towards the shore, Emerson Contemporary, Boston
Dislocation Blues, Vorspiel/transmediale, Berlin
Sky Hopinka. Dislocation Blues, VOX Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal, Quebec
Centers of Somewhere, Hessel Museum of Art , Annandale-On-Hudson, New York, with COUSIN Collective
Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia
Lore, Broadway Gallery, New York
East Window, Boulder, Colorado
Aurora Picture Show, Houston
małni – towards the ocean, towards the shore, The Autry Museum, Los Angeles
Film Screening with Sky Hopinka, Rutgers, New Jersey
Videoscapes in Dislocation, Oberlin College , Oberlin
Fainting Spells, New Media Series, Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri
Sneak Preview of małni–towards the ocean, towards the shore, Tate Modern, London
Encuentros Cinematograficos Camera Lucida, Cuenca, Ecuador
Nomadica – Towards Opacity, Around the Edge of Encircling Lake, Bologna, Italy
Afterimage: Sky Hopinka, Berkley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkley
The Great Poor Farm Experiment XI – Sky Hopinka Exhibition, Manawa, Wisconsin
LRVS MFA Lecture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland
Short films of Sky Hopinka, Amherst Cinema, Amherst, Massachusetts
Personal Ethnographies, Maysles Cinema, Harlem, New York
An Evening with Sky Hopinka, Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
The Ethnopoetic Cinema of Sky Hopinka, LACMA , Los Angeles
Guest filmmaker series, Western Colorado University, Gunnison, Colorado
05: Sky Hopinka, Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium
On Resentment: An Evening with Sky Hopinka, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn
Screening: Sky Hopinka, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
The Land Describes Itself, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee
Film screening, Yale University, New Haven
CAVE 3, Cellular Cinema, Minneapolis Disjecta program, Portland Art Museum, Portland
Mary Nohl Screening, UWM Union Cinema, Milwaukee
Artists Now!, Peck School of the Arts UWM, Milwaukee
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Crisp-Eller Art Museum , St. Augustine, Florida
Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Berwick-Upon-Tweet
Tacoma Film Festival , Tacoma, Washington
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis
LUX, London
Visions, Montreal
CineMarfa, Marfa, Texas
Lease Agreement, Huntsville, Texas
SF Cinematheque, San Francisco
Rubicon Cinema, Akron, Ohio
First Person Cinema, Boulder, Colorado
FDM Porter Visiting Artist: Sky Hopinka, Santa Cruz, California
Redcat Theatre, Los Angeles
Northwestern University, Chicago
Flagler College CEAM Artist Residency, St. Augustine, Florida
The ARTS Project, London, Ontario
An Evening with Sky Hopinka, Union Docs, Brooklyn
The Films of Sky Hopinka, Bard College, Hudson, New York
American Traditional War Songs, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fé
Sky Hopinka, MassArt Film Society, Boston
Sky Hopinka in Person, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media, Buffalo
04: Sky Hopinka, Spectral Microcinema, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Sky Hopinka: Translations and Transmutations, Conversations at the Edge, Chicago
Video Works by Sky Hopinka, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester
Sky Hopinka at FilmScene, Headroom Screening Series, Iowa City
Microlights Presents: Sky Hopinka, Milwaukee
Presents Sky Hopinka, The Nightingale Microcinema, Chicago
Tahoe Underground Film Festival, Tahoe City, California
Our People are Our Mountains: Instructions for Placemaking, De Appel, Amsterdam
A Nation Takes Place, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, Minnesota
How to Carry Water, PRAx, Corvallis, Oregon
Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
At the still point of the turning world, STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium
The land describes itself, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri
Dream Time, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Behind the evening tide, LUMA Westbau, Zurich
Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Forth Worth, Texas
Kicking the Clouds, BAMPFA, Berkeley
what was always yours and never lost, BAMPFA, Berkeley
malni, Barbican Centre, London
malni, El Rio, London
Lore; Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song; I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become; Fainting Spells, London Short Film Festival, London
Kicking the Clouds, Sundance, Salt Lake City
Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Pullman, Washington
Tempest, Tanya Leighton, Berlin with Sadie Coles HQ, London
Kamloops Art Gallery, Vancouver
The World is Gone and I Must Carry You, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris
New Art from the Pacific Northwest, Adams and Ollman Gallery, Portland
Pleasure Dome: We Need not an Archive, but Songs, Toronto Sundance Indigenous Shorts, New York
Memory Strate: A Conversation with Sky Hopinka and Simon Liu, Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Houston
True to Nature, National Gallery of Art , Washington
Indigenous Lens: Our Reality, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
An Evening with Basma alSarif and Sky Hopinka, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Abadakone, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa
Miffed Blue Return, 47 Canal, New York
Cosmopolis #2, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Horizontal Vertigo, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
Coloring Wall, Tetsuo’s Garage, Nikko, Japan
witching hour, Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland
Triennial Public Art Exhibition, Counterpublic, St. Louis
Unraveling Collective Forms, LACE, Los Angeles
yəhaw̓ – Indigenous exhibition, Seattle
Almost No Memory, Baltic Analog Lab, Riga, Latvia
Matchsticks, Metrograph, New York
In the Listening Garden (curated by Oona Mosna of Media City), Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque
The Land (curated by Tomonari Nishikawa), Uplink Theatre, Tokyo
Indigenous Peoples Artist Collective, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
Descendants Short Film Screening, McCord Museum, Montreal
Unraveling Collective Forms, LA Filmforum, Los Angeles
I’ve known rivers, Disjecta, Portland
Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Monarchs, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami
Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship for Individual Artists Group Exhibition, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wattis Institute, Los Angeles
When the Land Speaks, MSU Broad Museum, East Lansing, Michigan
21st Century Cyphers, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque
A Tender Spot, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles
Native Voice, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Monarchs, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nevada
World Records Launch, Union Docs, Brooklyn
Compressed Air, Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Houston
Infrared, SF Cinematheque, San Francisco
Cinema Multiversal (programmed by Ana Vaz)
Invited filmmaker, The Flaherty Seminar, Hamilton, New York
Anthology Film Archive: Cinema of Gender Transgression, New York
Heaven is a Place, The Nightingale, Chicago
Nocturnal Reflections, Milan
Other Cinema, San Francisco
Cinema Politica, Montreal, Quebec
Out of Sight, Seattle
Whitney Biennial, New York City
Without Us There is No You, Artists Space, New York
Shorts from Standing Rock, Mini Microcinema, Cincinnati
This Landscape Tells Stories: Caroline Monnet and Sky Hopinka, Pleasure Dome, Montreal
Sites, Sines, Songs: Mary Helena Clark, Sky Hopinka, and Cauleen
Smith, Whitney Biennial, New York
Haunted Ethnographies, Urban Video Project, Syracuse, New York
Object! On the Documentary as Art, Sheffield Fringe, London
View from Up Here, Northern Norway Art Museum, Tromsø, Norway
Berwick Media + Arts Festival, Berwick, United Kingdom
mamuk xạ laqɬ iliʔI, Littman Gallery, Portland
Wisconsin Triennial, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art,
Madison, Wisconsin
Now! Journal Presents: Shut It Down, Brooklyn
Passages (curated by David Dinnell), Cinema Project, Portland
Projected States, Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
TIFF Lightbox Short Documentary Showcase, Toronto
NMAI Native Cinema Showcase, Santa Fé
Native Documentary, Sundance Indigenous Program, St. Paul, Minnesota
Geography of the Body of the World, LA Film Forum, Los Angeles
UNEXPOSED - Midwest Screening with Emily Oscarson, Durham, North Carolina
The Best Short Films of Sundance, Phi Centre, Montreal
Minority Report, Pleasure Dome, Toronto
Shapeshifters, The Grange, East Haddam, Connecticut
The Being of Seeing UNEXPOSED, Microcinema, Durham, North Carolina
NMAI Mother Tongue Film Festival, Washington
Art Toronto, Verge Video, Toronto
Survivance: An Indigenous Intervention, Portland
#ImNotBuyingIt at the Chinatown Arcade, Los Angeles
Minority Report, Mothlight Microcinema, Detroit
People & Places, Mini Microcinema, Cincinnati, Ohio
Indigene Guerilla Independent Film Showcase, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
NO HOME: Films by Dan Smeby, Mothlight Microcinema, Detroit
A Program of Short Films (curated by Steve Wetzel), Paris
Alsharif/Hopinka/Smith, Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium