Time, Truth, and Other Immeasurables opens Fri, Sep 11. Image: L, 03 49 09.7, +24 03 12, 2017. Airbrushed pigment on canvas. Collection of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Church History Museum.
Time, Truth, and Other Immeasurables opens Fri, Sep 11. Image: L, 03 49 09.7, +24 03 12, 2017. Airbrushed pigment on canvas. Collection of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Church History Museum.
February 27–June 6, 2026
In Lore, Hopinka brings memories to life by rearranging images of friends and familiar landscapes, using an overhead projector.
As the transparencies are layered and repositioned on the light table, Hopinka’s voice narrates a poem inspired by personal reflections on family, Indigenous myths, and the ending of a relationship. Here, language functions as a vessel that holds, transmits, and transforms his experience.
Nostalgia emerges not as mere longing, but as a kind of self-lore and mythology—knowledge that is carried forward, shared, and reshaped. Memory is seen as an act of construction rather than preservation. The film culminates with a group of musicians performing Bo Diddley’s 1955 “Heart-O-Matic Love,” a song about love as a road trip.
Supported by Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks Program; Salt Lake Arts Council
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.
Hopinka’s films have 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 in 2021. He wxas a guest curator at the 2019 Whitney Biennial and participated in Cosmopolis #2 at the Centre Pompidou. He has had a solo exhibition at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, in 2020 and in 2022 at LUMA in Arles, France. Hopinka is the recipient of the Infinity Award in Art from the International Center and the Alpert Award for Film/Video and fellowships including The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Sundance Art of Nonfiction, Art Matters, The Guggenheim Foundation, and The Forge Project. In the fall of 2022, he received a MacArthur Fellowship for his work as a visual artist and filmmaker. Hopinka is currently an Assistant Professor of Film at Harvard University.