Wawa

Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) is a filmmaker, video artist, and photographer developing new forms of cinema centred around personal positions on Indigenous homeland, language(s), culture and landscape. He has screened at festivals including Sundance, Toronto IFF, Courtisane, Punto de Vista, and New York Film Festival. Exhibitions include Whitney Biennial (2017), FRONT Triennial (2018) and Prospect.5 (2021). He has been guest curator at Whitney Biennial (2019) and participated in Cosmopolis #2 at Centre Pompidou. Solo exhibitions include the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2020) and LUMA (2022). Most recently, he received the 2022 Infinity Award in Art from the International Center of Photography, and is a 2022 MacArther Fellow.

Wawa (2014), Sunflower Siege Engine (2022), In Dreams and Autumn (2021), The Island Weights (2021), Just a Soul Responding (2021), Kicking the Clouds (2021), Mnemonics of Shape and Reason (2021), Here You Are Before the Trees (2020), Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer (2019), Lore (2019), Fainting Spells (3-channel version) (2018), When you’re lost in the rain (2018), Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary (2017), Dislocation Blues (2017), I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become (2016), Visions of an Island (2016), Jáaji Approx (2015), Venite et Loquamur (2015), Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song (2014)