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Visual Art Forum: Sky Hopinka

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Please join us for a Visual Art Forums talk with artist Sky Hopinka

When

Oct 3, 2019 7:00pm – 9:00pm

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Location

On Campus

Reliance Theatre

Contact
Annie Briard | abriard@ecuad.ca
Open to Public?

Yes

The Audain Faculty of Art is pleased to launch the Fall 2019 Visual Art Forums with an artist talk by Sky Hopinka.

Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent several years in Palm Springs and Riverside, California, Portland, Oregon, Milwaukee, WI, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In Portland, he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape, designs of language as containers of culture, and the play between the known and the unknowable. 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. He was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and was Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow for 2019. This year, he joins Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts as Assistant Professor in Film Production.

His work has screened at various festivals including ImagineNATIVE Media + Arts Festival, Images, Wavelengths, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Sundance, Antimatter, Chicago Underground Film Festival, FLEXfest, and Projections. His work was a part of the 2016 Wisconsin Triennial and the 2017 Whitney Biennial. He was awarded jury prizes at the Onion City Film Festival, the More with Less Award at the 2016 Images Festival, 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.