Sky Hopinka

Riverside Cahokia is a moving meditation on place and belonging. The hand-scratched text inscribed across the photograph reads, “Looking like me never worked out so well in a lot of my life. But that / never stopped me from apologizing or agonizing or gazing away and glancing down / about being a skin in a town in a city in places near and non that I live in or pass / through or visited or am guested.”

Sky Hopinka’s films and videos have been played at the Sundance, Toronto International, and New York Film Festivals. His work was also presented in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and he was a guest curator for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Hopinka has had fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2018–19), the Art Matters Foundation (2019), and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2020). In 2022, he received the Infinity Award in Art from the International Center of Photography and became a MacArthur Fellow. His work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Walker Art Center, among others. Hopinka is an assistant professor in Harvard’s Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies.