Sky Hopinka
Film Screening & Artist Talk with curator Jami Powell
Saturday, September 26 at Bull Room
Doors at 7 PM
Film at 7:30 PM with artist talk to follow
Join us on September 26 for an intimate evening with acclaimed artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. The program will feature a curated showcase of Hopinka’s short films at Bull Room, followed by a conversation with the artist and curator Jami Powell.
Hopinka’s films offer a powerful and distinctive approach to Indigenous storytelling, weaving together moving images, sound, poetry, and language to create immersive works rooted in Native histories and cultural memory while engaging contemporary cinematic and technological forms.
The evening will kick off a month-long outdoor film installation featuring the selection of Hopinka’s works, projected nightly at sunset on the Marfa horizon on the facade of Bull Room, experiencing the films against the backdrop of the desert landscape.
Sky Hopinka
Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) is a filmmaker, photographer, and artist. His video, photo, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape, and considers language as a container of culture through personal, documentary, and nonfiction forms of media.
His work has screened at Sundance, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival, and has been featured in the Whitney Biennial, FRONT Triennial, Prospect.5, and the Gwangju Biennial. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award, Hopinka’s work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and other major institutions.
He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is an assistant professor in the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University.
Jami Powell
Jami Powell is the Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Indigenous Art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College where she also serves as a senior lecturer in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Department. Powell has curated exhibitions including Form and Relation: Contemporary Native American Ceramics, This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, and Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light). In 2025, she co-edited Re-Envisioning American Art: Transforming Museum Practice, which was published by the University of Washington press. She is on the board of directors for the Native American Art Studies Association and serves on advisory boards for Panorama and the Terra Foundation for American Art.