June 2 – 5, 2022
Sky Hopinka: In Dreams and Autumn
Curator: Michael Patten
Contemporary Native Art Biennial (BACA), 6th edition
McCord Museum
690 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, (Quebec) H3A 1E9
Transcendent meditations on language, landscape, and myth, the ethnopoetic works of Sky Hopinka explore the traditions of ethnographic filmmaking and reclaim the form as a vehicle for ecstatic personal expression. Through an intricate layering of words and images, Hopinka creates dense, hallucinatory audiovisual collages that reflect his longstanding interest in endangered Indigenous languages (particularly the nearly extinct chinuk wawa) and the cultural memories embedded within them. Through both his filmmaking and his work with the COUSIN Collective, which supports fellow Native filmmakers, Hopinka has emerged as a vital force in bringing the contemporary Indigenous experience to the screen.
Biography
Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, California, Portland, Oregon, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Portland he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video, photo, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape, designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal, documentary, and non fiction forms of media. He received his BA from Portland State University in Liberal Arts and his MFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and currently teaches at Bard College in Film and Electronic Arts.
His work has played at various festivals including Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Courtisane Festival, Punto de Vista, and the New York Film Festival. His work was a part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the 2018 FRONT Triennial and Prospect.5. He was a guest curator at the 2019 Whitney Biennial and participated in Cosmopolis #2 at the Centre Pompidou. He has had solo exhibitions at the Great Poor Farm Experiment in 2019 and at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, in 2020. He was awarded the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker at the 54th Ann Arbor Film Festival, the New Cinema Award at the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival and the Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship for Individual Artists in the Emerging artist category for 2018. He was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2018- 2019, a Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow for 2019, an Art Matters Fellow in 2019, a recipient of a 2020 Alpert Award for Film/Video, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, and is a 2021 Forge Project Fellow.
BACA 2022 DATES AND VENUES
Sunday, May 1, 2022, from 2:00 p.m to 4:00 p.m
Land Back Opening ceremony
Place du Canada
1010, rue de la Gauchetière Ouest
Tiohtià:ke / Montreal (QC)
Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts
April 28 – June 26, 2022
Opening: Thursday April 28, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.
241 Rue Dufferin, Sherbrooke, QC
Maison des Jésuites de Sillery
From May 4 to December 11, 2022
2320 Chemin du Foulon, Quebec, QC
Quai 5160 – Maison de la culture de Verdun
May 7 – July 3, 2022
5160 Bd LaSalle, Verdun, QC
Art Mûr
May 7 – June 18, 2022
Opening: Saturday May 7, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.
5826 St-Hubert, Montreal, QC
Stewart Hall Art Gallery
May 7 – June 19, 2022
Opening: Sunday May 8, 2022 at 2:00 p.m.
176 Bord-du-Lac, Pointe-Claire, QC
La Guilde
May 19 – July 10, 2022
Opening: Thursday May 19, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.
1356 West Sherbrooke st, Montreal, QC
McCord Museum
June 2 – 5, 2022 : Film screening
Sky Hopinka, In Dreams and Autumn (2021)
690 West Sherbrooke st, Montreal, QC
Expression – Centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe
November 4 – December 23, 2022
495 Avenue Saint-Simon, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC
SATELLITE EXHIBITIONS
She:kon – BACA Space for Emerging Art
Alexis Gros-Louis, Önenha’; Wen’wa’ / [Superimpositions]
Curator: Terry Randy Awashish
May 7 – June 18, 2022
5826, St-Hubert, Montreal, QC
daphne art center
Suzanne Morissette, translations
May 7 – June 18, 2022
5842, St-Hubert, Montreal, QC
Laroche/Joncas
Renée Condo, Sisip-Sipu
April 27 – June 4, 2022
372 Ste-Catherine W, suite 410, Montreal, QC
