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
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