Reviews
Finding Place in Pictures by Rachel Gallaher - Seattle Magazine, April 24th, 2024
Sky Hopinka, Subterranean Ceremonies by Emily Butler - ArtForum, Summer, 2024
How Sky Hopinka conjures his Indigenous ancestors by Janelle Zara - Art Basel, April 24th, 2023
Arthur Jafa and Sky Hopinka at Luma Arles: a tale of two Americas by Amy Serafin - Wallpaper, May 20th, 2022
Kicking the Clouds, Tinashé, Haulout und Retreat by Elisabeth Nagy - Riecks Film Kritiken, February 22nd, 2022
Sundance 2022 Critic’s Notebook: Fire of Love, Every Day in Kaimukī and Shorts by Abby Sun - Filmmaker Magazine, January 26th, 2022
Sky Hopinka’s “Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer” exhibition reckons with colonial violence, highlights Indigenous resistance by Laya Neelakandan - The Daily Northwestern, October 5, 2021
In ‘malni … ,” the Pacific Northwest offers a fairy-tale beauty shot through with darkness by Peter Keough - MSN News, May 6th, 2021
Sky Hopinka’s New Doc Depicts Indigenous Life From a Unique Perspective by Nathan Smith - Nashville Scene, April 8th, 2021
How Should Black and Indigenous Directors Depict Generational Trauma? by Cassie de Costa - Vanity Fair, April 7th, 2021
małni – towards the ocean, towards the shore Review: An Elegiac, Mesmerizing Journey Through the Pacific Northwest by Glenn Heath Jr. - The Film Stage, April 2nd, 2021
‘Malni — Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore’ Review: Embracing Our Ghosts By Beatrice Loayza - The New York Times, April 1st, 2021
Against Getting It: Julia Pelta Feldman on the limits of accessibility by Julia Pelta Feldman - ArtForum, April 1st, 2021
Adam Piron on Storytelling and the Importance of Cultural Diversity by Adam Piron - Art in America, February 12th, 2021
Portraits of Place by Christopher Green - Art in America, February 10th, 2021
For Sky Hopinka, Wandering Is Both a Mode of Moving and Making by Mariana Fernández - Hyperallergic, February 10th, 2021
The Best Art of 2020 by Andrea K. Scott - The New Yorker, December 30th, 2020
The Most Important Moments in Art 2020 by Holland Cotter – The New York Times, December 12th, 2020
Sky Hopinka by Aruona D’Souza - 4Columns, December 12th, 2020
Documentary 'maɬni' is a meditative immersion in Chinook Indian worldview by Antonio D. Sison, EarthBeat, December 8th, 2020
IN SPACES BETWEEN: a review of Sky Hopinka’s maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore by Darol Olu Kae - SEEN, Fall 2020
Sky Hopinka: Songs of the Earth and the Road by Holland Cotter – The New York Times, November 12th, 2020
Songs of the Earth and the Highway by Staff - The British Journal, November 12th, 2020
Lore - Sky Hopinka by Shanel Thompson, Museé Magazine - November 12th, 2020
Big Sky Country: Sky Hopinka Exhibits at CCS Bard by Dan Fisher - November 4th, 2020
Poetry That Pulls at the Seams of Colonial Power and Memory by Dessane Lopez Cassell – Hyperallergic, October 16th, 2020
A Mesmerizing Walk through Chinookan Heritage and the Forests of the Pacific Northwest by Lora Maslenitsyna – Supamodu, May 10th, 2020
Mining Indigenous Myths and Languages to Contemplate Life’s Meaning by Ela Bittencourt – Hyperallergic, Feb. 3rd, 2020
Sundance Film Festival 2020 Review – małni – towards the ocean, towards the shore by Andrea Thompson – Flickering Myth, Jan 30th, 2020
Can Documentary Make Space? by Jason Fox – Film Quarterly, Jan. 4th, 2020
Vision & Voice: Sky Hopinka on Recentering Cinema and Experimental Practice by Adam Piron - Sundance Institute, November 30th, 2020
Sky Hopinka at the Poor Farm by Frani O’Toole – Brooklyn Rail, Sept. 25th, 2019
Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer by Sheila Regan– C Magazine, Summer, 2019
The Exciting Native American Film Program at This Year’s Whitney Biennial by Lindsay Costello – Hyperallergic, May 28th, 2019
Sky Hopinka's Meditations on Place and Space by Shane McAdams – Shepard Express, May 14th, 2019
The Experimental Cinema of This Year’s Whitney Biennial Film Curator by Dan Schindel – Hyperallergic, May 1st, 2019
Wistful, Wayward Warriors: Post-Movement Fatigue and Dissociative States in Sky Hopinka’s Dislocation Blues by Lindsay Nixon - Deep-Time Construction, June 2018
Ethnopoetics of Reality: The Works of Sky Hopinka by Almudena Escobar Lopez - Afterimage, Vol. 45, Nos. 2 & 3. p. 27-31 Jan. 2018
In Search of Lost Words: The Work of Sky Hopinka by Matthew J. Abrams - L.A. Review of Books, 29 Sept. 2017
TIFF 2017: Wavelengths. Dislocation Blues and Onward Lossless Fellows by Author Unknown - Desistfilm, 19 Sept. 2017 :( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
American Traditional War Songs: The Ethnopoetic Videos of Sky Hopinka - Alicia Guzmán - THE Magazine, 1 Aug. 2017
The Land of Sound, the Land of Images: On Recent Works by Sky Hopinka by Jesse Cumming - Cinema Scope 70. 2017
Openings: Sky Hopinka by Dennis Lim Artforum Mar. 2017
Press
Which Artists Are Getting the Most Play in U.S. Museums This Month, by Ben Davis, Artnet, March 12, 2025
Cecilia Alemani details her character-driven curatorial approach for next SITE Santa Fe International, by Hilarie M. Sheets, The Art Newspaper, February 18, 2025
Native American Artists Claim Space at Frieze Los Angeles - by Tara Anne Dalbow, Frieze Magazine, February 2025
Artist Profile: Sky Hopinka on Telling Indigenous Stories in the 21st Century - The Harvard Crimson, February 5th, 2025
Sky Hopinka and Sin Wai Kin Win Baloise Art Prize - Art Forum, June 13th, 2023
Sky Hopinka, Sin Wai Kin Win Art Basel’s $33,000 Baloise Art Prize by Alex Greenberger - Artnews, June 13th, 2023
2022 MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Honoree Sky Hopinka: Regular Guy by Chadd Scott - Forbes, October 24th, 2022
Paul Chan, Sky Hopinka, Tavares Strachan Named 2022 MacArthur Fellows - ArtForum, October 12th 2022
A New Cinema Dedicated to Documentary Films Opens in NYC Today: See the Exclusive Bumper by Jordan Raup - The Film Stage, September 23rd, 2022
Gwangju Biennale 2023 Reveals First Artist List by Lily Wong - ArtAsiaPacific, September 21st, 2022
A 50-Year-Old Tape that Speaks My Language: Professor Sky Hopinka on the Inspiration for His New Documentary, Kicking the Clouds - Bard News, September 13th, 2022
Basilica Hudson to showcase Indigenous film, music by Steve Barnes - Times Union, May 24th, 2022
Arthur Jafa and Sky Hopinka at Luma Arles: a tale of two Americas by Amy Serafin - Wallpaper*, May 20th, 2022
Forge Project Partners With Basilica Hudson for Jupiter Nights May 26 - Hudson Valley 360, May 19th, 2022
LUMA’s Parc des Ateliers in Arles is Not to be Missed by Catherine Rickman - Frenchly, May 18th 2022
5 Tribeca Shows to See During Frieze New York by Alex Greenberger - ArtNews, May 17th, 2022
What Was Always Yours And Never Lost: Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago - e-flux, May 4th, 2022
2022 ICP Infinity Awards : MediaStorm : Sky Hopinka - The Eye of Photography, April 28th, 2022
Electronic storytelling exhibits at MAG and RoCo reflect on upheaval and identity by Rebecca Rafferty - Rochester City Newspaper, April 1st, 2022
On Kanopy: ‘Malni – Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore’ by Mason Hickok - The Paisano, February 8th, 2022
MoMA’s Doc Fortnight Unveils Lineup of 19 Films, with Focus on the Environment by Christian Zilko - IndieWire, February 10th, 2022
Forge Project: Back to the Land by Kerri Kolensky - Chronogram, February 1st, 2022
Prospect New Orleans: how to stage a triennial in a city to which climate change poses an existential threat by Naima J. Keith and Diana Nawi - The Art Newspaper, January 4th, 2022
Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow - Very Local New Orleans, October 5th, 2021
Forge fellowship awards $25,000 to four Native notables - Red Lake Nation News, August 26th, 2021
Epsilon Spires presents lush Chinook documentary - The Commons, March 31st, 2021
Sky Hopinka: Curating Indigenous Film - School of Cinema, San Francisco Cinematheque, March 16th, 2021
Sundance: Power and Fear in Park City by Robert Koehler – Cinema Scope, Spring, 2020
Sundance 2020 Dispatch 5 by Vadim Rizov – Filmmaker Magazine, Jan 29th, 2020
Trans Experience is not Raw Material by Charlie Markbrieter - Vice Garage, 27 Apr. 2018
Looking Back on 2017: Film & Television by Matthew J. Abrams - BOMB Magazine, 14 Dec. 2017
Decentralizing Art Basel Miami Beach by Ellie Hunter - The Rib, 11 Dec. 2017
New York Film Festival's Projections 2017 on Notebook by Almudena Escobar Lopez - MUBI, 30 Oct. 2017
Lost in Space by Ela Bittencourt - Frieze, 4 Oct. 2017
Standout Shorts from the Toronto International Film Festival by Dan Schindel - Hyperallergenic, 13 Sept. 2017
A Slow Assessment: 2017 Whitney Biennial Film Program on Notebook by Michael Sicinski - MUBI, 2 Aug. 2017
The Whitney Biennial's Political Mood by Peter Schjeldahl - The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
What Participation in the Whitney Biennial Means to These Emerging Artists by Isaac Kaplan - Artsy, 9 Mar. 2017
'Haunted Ethnography' Exhibition Digs Up Graves of Colonialism by Caroline Colvin - Daily Orange, Feb. 2017
Here Comes the Whitney Biennial, Reflecting the Tumult of the Times by Robin Pogrebin - New York Times, 17 Nov. 2016
Interviews
What We Pass On – For the Wild Podcast, February 7th, 2024
A Conversation with MacArthur Fellow Sky Hopinka by Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry - WNYC, October 18th, 2022
Sky Hopinka, Artist and Filmmaker | 2022 MacArthur Fellow - MacArthur Foundation, October 12th, 2022
Many Lumens Podcast: Season 2, Episode 4–Sky Hopinka – by Maori Karmael Holmes, June 1st, 2022
Any Knowledge We Produce Can Be Used Against Us by Tiffany Sia and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa - ArtNews, May 17th, 2022
Sky Hopinka: Complicating Our Experience of Land and Language by Katy Donoghue - Whitewall, May 2022
What Does it Mean to be a Visitor? by Anaïs Duplan - Art21, September 21, 2021
Conversations Between: Sky Hopinka and Theo Anthony Discuss maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore by Theo Anthony - Filmmaker Magazine, April 8th, 2021
Lucid Dreaming: Conversations with 29 Filmmakers by Pamela Cohn – OR Books, Feb., 2020
Interviews: Sky Hopinka by Jordan Cronk – Artforum, 28 Jan., 2020
Reclaiming Artistic Research by Lucy Cotter – Hatje Cantz, Sept. 2019
On Omission | Lillian Mengesha and Sky Hopinka by Lillian Mengesha – Women and Performance, 9 Jan. 2019
Art Talk with Filmmaker Sky Hopinka by Rebecca Sutton – NEA Art Talk Blog, 16 Nov. 2018
NYFF Interview: Sky Hopinka by Becca Voelcker- Film Comment, 5 Oct. 2018
Sky Hopinka on dislocation and language by Phoebe Schlough - Tone Madison, 7 Mar. 2018
Vdrome: Sky Hopinka: Dislocation Blues interview by Carly Whitefield - Vdrome, 12 Jan. 2018
In Conversation with Sky Hopinka and belit sag by Almudena Escobar Lopez - Brooklyn Rail, 2 Nov. 2017
Interview with Sky Hopinka by Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil - Third Rail 10. 2017
On Layaway with Sky Hopinka by Scott Gordon - Tone Madison, 6 Oct. 2016