Midcity, Los Angeles
Sky Hopinka
Under the Moon, Beneath the Flowers
Tanya LeightonTanya Leighton is pleased to present Sky Hopinka’s Under the Moon, Beneath the Flowers in Los Angeles. "I held an ancestor in my arms, and we spoke of dust. It’s time to go back to home to the mounds away from the missions where they denied our heart and our blood. Adrift and wandering through prairies and deserts, belligerent and captive by borders bound by obstacles made of death and shame. It’s time to go home, and float breathlessly on currents of willow and pine." —Sky Hopinka, ‘Sunflower Siege Engine’ Sky Hopinka (b. 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) lives and works in New York. He is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians. In 2022, he received a MacArthur Fellowship for his work in film and video that offer new strategies of representation for the expression of Native worldviews. In 2023, he received the Baloise Art Prize for his participation in Art Basel Statements in Basel, Switzerland. Recent solo exhibitions include Museu de Arte de São Paulo; Speed Art Museum, Louisville; Luma, Arles; San José Museum of Art; Broadway Gallery, New York; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Block Museum of Art, Chicago; Vorspiel/transmediale, Berlin; VOX Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal; Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri; Tate Modern, London; The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, and CCS Bard (curated by Lauren Cornell) at the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, just to name a few. His work is included in the permanent collections of Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; MUDAM, Luxembourg; SF MoMA, San Francisco; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Whitney Museum, New York; Kadist, San Francisco; Milwaukee Art Museum; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Northwestern Mutual, Milwaukee; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton; and Princeton University Art Museum, amongst others. Hopinka’s work is currently on view at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia until 24 September 2023. In 2024, Hopinka will participate in the group exhibition ‘The land describes itself’ at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri.