Sky Hopinka (b. 1984, Ferndale, Washington) is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores personal and cultural histories of Native communities, often centering the language, landscapes, and narratives of his Ho-Chunk Nation and Pechanga Band of Luiseño heritage. Merging documentary and experimental approaches, Hopinka weaves together moving image, photography, and text to create layered, lyrical meditations on place, identity, and the poetics of translation. His photographs, like his films, are attentive to the relationships between land and story—offering still, distilled images that hold the same formal precision and associative depth found in his moving images. Often combining text and image, they extend his interest in how Indigenous experience is inscribed in place and how language shapes perception. Hopinka’s work has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, FRONT International, and the Toronto International Film Festival, among others, and is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Walker Art Center. He is a MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow and lives in New York.