Dreaming in Autumn – A Never-Ending Stream of Dreams

Indigenous filmmaker, video artist, poet, and MacArthur Foundation grantee Sky Hopinka hails from Ferndale, Washington, and is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin with roots in the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians. Hopinka’s work has garnered international acclaim, with showings at prestigious exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial and Cosmopolis #2 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His films have been featured at renowned film festivals including Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, Punto de Vista, and the New York Film Festival. Hopinka has also been recognized with prestigious fellowships, awards, and grants, including being a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, a recipient of a 2020 Alpert Award for Film/Video, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2021 Forge Project Fellow. Currently, Hopinka serves as an Assistant Professor of Film at Bard College in New York.

Renée Green, known for her captivating art installations, videos, and films, has showcased her work in museums, biennales, and festivals worldwide. Notable retrospectives of her work have been held at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin in 2021 and the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2009. Green has had solo museum exhibitions across the globe, including in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Switzerland, with a highlight being a exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at prestigious institutions such as the Whitney Museum, New Museum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Hammer Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; ICA in Philadelphia and Boston; Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville; and Museum der Moderner in Salzburg, among others.