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Sky Hopinka: Sonic Transmissions

  • Slash Gallery 1150 25th Street San Francisco, CA, 94107 United States (map)

Sky Hopinka
Curated by Gina Basso

January 10 – April 18, 2026
Opening reception: Saturday, January 10 | 5-8 pm
Curator remarks at 4:30 pm

We are thrilled to announce Sky Hopinka: Sonic Transmissions, a solo exhibition that explores and highlights the importance of sound for the artist and filmmaker. Featuring videos from 2016 through 2025 projected in a newly constructed cinearama alongside poetry and a playlist created by Hopinka for the exhibition, Sonic Transmissions is an invitation to access a new sensorial dimension through the artist’s rhythmic, vocal, choral, and musical soundscapes.

As Gina Basso writes in her curatorial statement: “Hopinka is a musician and collector of sound, and a master of the mix. The intersection of sound, text, and imagery surfaces memories, elegies, and dreams. It also invites ghostly conversations to shape and reframe understanding of the Native American experience away from the ethnographic power that, in the artist’s words, ‘fixes our cultures and makes them into traditions, so they’re not contemporary.’”

Read Gina Basso’s full curatorial statement and learn more about Sky Hopinka here.

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