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Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington, and has lived in Palm Springs and Riverside, California; Portland, Oregon; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While in Portland, he studied and taught Chinuk Wawa, an Indigenous language of the lower Columbia River Basin.
Working across film, photography, and writing, Hopinka explores Indigenous homelands and landscapes, as well as language as a vessel for culture, through deeply personal, documentary, and nonfiction forms. He holds a BA in Liberal Arts from Portland State University and an MFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He currently teaches Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College.
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