Sky Hopinka
Sky Hopkina | |
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| Born | 1984 (age 36–37) |
| Nationality | Ho-Chunk Nation; American |
| Education | Portland State University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| Known for | video, film, animation |
| Style | experimental |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Website | www |
Sky Hopinka (born 1984)[1] is a Native American visual artist and filmmaker who is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño people.[2]
Early life and education[]
Hopinka was born in Ferndale, Washington,[3] and moved to Southern California as a teenager.[4]
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.[5][2] While at PSU, he started to take interest in Indigenous language revitalization.[4]
In 2013 he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the homeland of the Ho-Chunk Nation, and enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in film, video, and new genres.[2][5]
Career[]
Hopinka's work deals with personal interpretations of homeland and landscape; the correlation between language and culture in relation to home and land.[2] Hopinka has said: “Deconstructing language [through cinema] is a way for me to be free from the dogma of traditional storytelling and then, from there, to explore or propose more of what Indigenous cinema has the possibility to look like.”[5]
His film and video work has been featured at Media City Film Festiva[6]l, the Museum of Modern Art, New York,[1] the Walker Art Center,[7] the Tate Modern,[8] the Whitney Biennial,[9] Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College,[10] Sundance Film Festival,[11] ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival,[12] Toronto International Film Festival,[13] Ann Arbor Film Festival,[14] New York Film Festival,[15] among others.
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. He has also taught Chinuk Wawa, the indigenous language of the Lower Columbia River Basin.[2]
Awards[]
- 2020, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship[3]
- 2020, MacDowell (artists' residency and workshop) fellowship[16][non-primary source needed]
- 2019, Media City Film Festival's [17]Chrysalis Fellowship to work on post-production of małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore[18] (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".[2]
- 2017, Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship, 2017[2]
- 2016, More with Less Award, Images Festival[2]
- 2015, Third Prize, Media City Film Festival
- 2015, Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker, Ann Arbor Film Festival[2][19]
Collections[]
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York[9]
- Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Sky Hopinka". Museum of Modern Art, New York. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i "Sky Hopinka (2018–2019) Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow". Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Sky Hopinka". The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Cronk, Jordan (January 28, 2020). "Sky Hopinka on Indigenous language, the afterlife, and making his first feature". Artforum magazine. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Cronk, Jordan (2018). "Sky Hopinka". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
- ^ "Media City Film Festival". Media City Film Festival. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ^ "Sky Hopinka: The Centers of Somewhere". Retrieved 30 August 2020.
- ^ "Sky Hopinka: MAŁNI". The Tate Modern Museum. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Sky Hopinka". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
- ^ "Sky Hopinka Centers of Somewhere". Hessel Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
- ^ "Malni - Towards the Ocean Towards the Shore". Sundance Film Festival. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
- ^ "Lore". ImagineNATIVE film festival. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
- ^ Shindel, Dan (13 September 2017). "Standout Shorts from the Toronto International Film Festival". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
- ^ "Video interview: Sky Hopinka at the 54th AAFF". Ann Arbor Film Festival. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
- ^ Voelcker, Becca. "NYFF Interview: Sky Hopinka". Retrieved 30 August 2020.
- ^ "MacDowell Awards Winter-Spring Fellowships to 87 Artists". MacDowell. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
- ^ "Media City Film Festival". Media City Film Festival. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ^ "maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (2020)". Sky Hopinka. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ^ "THE 54The Ann Arbor Film Festival Award Winning Films". Ann Arbor Film Festival. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
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