The Artist’s Voice: Caroline Monnet and Sky Hopinka with Jenelle Porter

Caroline Monnet is a multidisciplinary artist of Anishinaabe and French ancestry, originally from the Outaouais region, who lives and works in Mooniyang/Montréal. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Canada, the United States, and Europe. The artist has also exhibited at the Whitney Biennial (New York, USA), Toronto Art Biennial (Canada), KØS Museum (Køge, Denmark), Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal, Canada), and National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada), among others. Her work is included in numerous collections in North America and at the Maison de l’UNESCO in Paris. With bachelor’s degrees in sociology and communications from the University of Ottawa and the University of Granada (Spain), Monnet received the Prix Pierre-Ayot and was a finalist for the Sobey Arts Award in 2020. She was also the recipient of the Merata Mita Fellowship from the Sundance Institute and was named Compagne des arts et des lettres du Québec in 2023.

Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent several years in Palm Springs and Riverside, CA; Portland, OR; and Milwaukee, WI. 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 and non-fictional forms of media.

In the fall of 2022, Hopinka received a MacArthur Fellowship for his work as a visual artist and filmmaker. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Film at Harvard University.

Jenelle Porter is a curator and writer. She is the curator, with Jeffrey Gibson, of An Indigenous Present, ICA/Boston (October 2025). Recent exhibitions include Barbara T. Smith: Proof, ICA LA (2023), Kay Sekimachi: Geometries, Berkeley Art Museum (2021), and Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, ICA/Boston (2019). She edited An Indigenous Present with Jeffrey Gibson (2023), a Viola Frey monograph (2024), and many other publications. She has held curatorial positions at the ICA/Boston; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Artists Space, New York; Walker Art Center; and Whitney Museum of American Art

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