"Chronostasia: Select Aquisitions 2020—2025" Exhibtion Conversation with Sky Hopinka | The Loeb

Chronostasis is a perceptual illusion in which time appears to slow. Featuring over sixty works added to the Loeb’s collection between 2020–2025, "Chronostasia" likewise extends and recirculates time. Some works revisit the past; others offer ways of seeing that move beyond chronology.

To mark the exhibition opening, we welcomed artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) for a conversation with Vassar Professor of English Molly McGlennen and curator Alyx Raz ’16.

Artist Talk with Sky Hopinka
Exhibition Conversation with Sky, Molly, and Alyx

About the Artist:
Sky Hopinka 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 was 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.